Yet they want to do it between the scheduled appearances of witnesses at the trial.

Administrative law judges have the authority to compel the appearance of witnesses at a hearing.

One would be to appoint a case manager to handle paperwork and coordinate the appearance of witnesses.

A lawyer up to his haunches in a murder trial, with access to judicial process to compel the appearance of witnesses.

To that end, several senators said that the depositions were by no means a prelude to the appearance of witnesses on the Senate floor.

Committees are able to order the production of documents and the appearance of witnesses (powers that are in practice used very sparingly).

Such warrants are generally used to ensure the appearance of witnesses at trial or before a grand jury, and one official said the man is suspected of having information about the plans for the attacks.

In its statement, the Judge Advocate General's office conceded that "occasional problems occur in the appearance of witnesses and defendants on trial," but said that "measures have been taken to improve the situation."

Calling the proceedings unfair and a kind of kangaroo court, Mr. Wall said the committee had postponed the appearance of witnesses who would defend his agency's actions while calling more than a dozen witnesses who directly or indirectly criticized the agency.

He also quotes Welles to the effect that Hearst was a friend of his father and that he got the idea of telling the story from different points of view from "the Bible, from the appearances of witnesses who come to testify about a man's character."

"The Rwandan government's failure to issue travel documents in a timely manner to facilitate the appearance of witnesses before the International Tribunal has resulted in the unavailability of witnesses and, consequently, the postponement of three trials," the court's presiding judge, Navanethem Pillay, complained in a recent report.