After a two-year delay, The US is finally arranging hearings on whether 71 of the 166 suspected terrorists being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison are still a threat to the United States.

The hearing panels will include Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, State Department and intelligence officials, and will not examine whether the detainees are being held lawfully; the sole focus is whether the inmates still constitute a threat to the US warranting continued detention at the US Naval base in Cuba. 

Many of the 71 detainees are considered too dangerous to release, yet there is not enough permissible evidence to warrant criminal trials.

President Barack Obama ordered the hearings more than two years ago, and there’s still no timetable for getting it done.  The Pentagon said they would begin when “all the reasonable conditions have been set.”