The US Government has for the first time released the identities of 46 terror suspects being held at Guantánamo Bay as “indefinite detainees” — men considered too dangerous to transfer from the jail but ineligible for trial because of insufficient or tainted evidence.

The list, which sheds rare light on the most contentious inmates at the notorious military facility, was released by the Pentagon to The Miami Herald in response to freedom of information requests made by the paper. It also included the names of all 166 detainees who remain at the prison.

Its release comes as the Obama Administration announced the appointment of a senior Washington lawyer to be the State Department’s special envoy responsible for shutting down Guantánamo Bay, in a development that