[War on Terror] What about the ghost prisoners? (Boo-hoo!)

The London Guardian ^ | December 4, 2008 | Clive Stafford Smith

[stevie_d_64]

Mr. Clive Stafford Smith should open his front door and accomodate as many of these folks as possible...

We should all send him and email encouraging him to extend asylum to these wayward individuals...

We can send him some tents to put up in his yard to make room for mo...

[Karliner]

Yet the justifiable joy at Obama's ascendancy must be tempered with the knowledge that Guantánamo always has been a diversionary tactic in the "war on terror". The 250 men there represent fewer than 1% of the 27,000 prisoners being held by the US beyond the rule of law. There is a reason why most people have never heard of the plight of these unfortunates - they are ghost prisoners in secret prisons. Obama has yet to speak of the missing 99.1%.

Hmm there's allegedly 1% of the prisoners in GITMO, and this writer is speaking about the other 99.1%?? lets see. 99.1% + 1 % = eleventy-one percent.??