Today's Periodic Review Board Hearing

Today, Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi. a Yemeni Guantanamo detainee, will have a hearing before a "Periodic Review Board."  The resuscitated administrative mechanism's purpose is, of course, to evaluate whether further detention is needed "to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States." The hearing's participants will be spread out over various locations (detainee in Guantanamo, board members somewhere else); the hearing itself will be divided into classified and unclassified sessions.  Importantly, the latter will be zapped, via closed circuit television, to a Defense Department facility in Crystal City, Virginia.  Alas, Lawfare won't be in the house, space there being severely limited.   But that doesn't mean the Guantanamo junkie will go without coverage.  Over at Just Security, Daphne Eviatar has previewed the day's events, and apparently will have a read-out later today, too.