US Holding 27,000 in Secret Overseas Prisons

Transporting Prisoners to Iraqi Jails to Avoid Media & Legal Scrutiny
May 19, 2008

Clive Stafford Smith: US Holding 27,000 in Secret Overseas Prisons; Transporting Prisoners to Iraqi Jails to Avoid Media & Legal Scrutiny
“There is a huge number of [secret prisoners] being held in Iraq, and one of the intriguing aspects of this that doesn’t get much reporting is that the US is bringing people into Iraq from elsewhere to hold them there, simply because that keeps [the media and lawyers] away from the prisoners so they can’t get any sort of legal rights,” reports British attorney Clive Stafford Smith.

http://i2.democracynow.org/2008/5/19/clive_stafford_smith