By all accounts, this phase of the process went slowly.
"We are in a momentum phase of the process now," said Tad Devine, a Democratic consultant.
That team flew with the soldiers to Germany for the second phase of the process.
In the closing phase of the process, Paisley, characteristically, did not chart a predictable course.
The White House tried to screen out some of the more unusual comments in the second phase of the process.
"As we are still in the appeal phase of the process, it would be inappropriate to comment any further".
Some will move on to the next phase of the process and will be asked to submit more detailed proposals.
Under the rules of the Guantánamo war-crimes system, the military prosecutors can designate charges as capital when they present them, and it is that first phase of the process that is expected this week.
In this phase of the process, Mr. Lember and two of Mr. Williams's lawyers, Joseph A. Hayden and William R. Martin, will question potential jurors individually about themselves and their view of the case.
Undeterred by some of the wilder suggestions, the White House proceeded Monday with the third phase of the process — asking people to collaborate online to draft language that could be used to create the final rules.
In every phase of the process, there were opportunities to turn an average sketch into a great one (and also to do the opposite, but I'm deluded enough to believe that I never engaged in that kind of reverse alchemy).
