Saed Farhan Al-Maliki v. George W. Bush

Saed Farhan Al-Maliki had a writ of habeas corpus filed on its behalf, Saed Farhan Al-Maliki v. George W. Bush.
The United States Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...

 published dossiers of the unclassified documents arising from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals of 179 captives who had habeas petitions filed on their behalf.
But the Department withheld Al-Maliki's documents.

The Department has not explained why they withheld Al-Maliki's documents.

Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board

Administrative Review Board

The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the suspects held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

 hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo

Summary of Evidence (ARB)

Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...

 was prepared for
Saed Khatem Al Malki's
Administrative Review Board,
on
24 August 2005.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

Transcript

Al Malki chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.
In the spring of 2006, in response to a court order

Court order

A court order is an official proclamation by a judge that defines the legal relationships between the parties to a hearing, a trial, an appeal or other court proceedings. Such ruling requires or authorizes the carrying out of certain steps by one or more parties to a case...

, the Department of Defense published a fifteen page summarized transcript of his Board hearing.