“The [Bush] administration’s claim set forth in a previously secret March 19, 2004, draft DOJ [Department of Justice] memo prepared by [Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel] Jack L. Goldsmith recognizes that everyone lawfully in Iraq is a protected person under the Geneva Conventions but argues that ‘protected persons,’ such as Iraqi nationals, can be transferred ‘from Iraq to another country to facilitate interrogation, for a brief but not indefinite period,’ and that persons who are not lawfully in Iraq can be denied protections and transferred to facilitate coercive interrogation.”
– Jordan J. Paust, Beyond the Law, Page 18