Amnesty International warns US leaders could face prosecution for war crimes

Amnesty International takes aim at Gitmo

White House spokesman Scott McClellan called the charges of widespread abuse "ridiculous" and said the U.S. was on top of the situation. "We hold people accountable when there's abuse," he said. "We take steps to prevent it from happening again."

Let's see...on top of it? Yes. Indeed. I've seen the pictures. You strip down a bunch of Iraqis, pile 'em up like a pyramid and then climb on top! What else...oh, yeah. "We hold people accountable". Absolutely. Not the right people. Usually just some low-level, expendable patsy, but we hold people accountable. And as far as taking steps to prevent future abuses...yeah, right.

The signers (of a call for an independent investigation of prisoner abuse) -- ranging from former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta to David Keene, head of the American Conservative Union, and former FBI director William Sessions -- said a comprehensive study by a group modeled after the Sept. 11 Commission was needed.

Fat lot of good that'll do. Unless these signers are a bunch of shills for BushCo, shouldn't they be looking for a successful model? The Sept. 11 Commission was a flop.

One signer, Kevin Barry, a retired Coast Guard captain and military judge, said military probes suffered from an inability to point the finger at higher-ups in the Pentagon.

"You can't indict the boss," Barry said. "But we have so much evidence of abuse in so many locations that to say it's a couple of bad people here or there has lost credibility with the public."

Hasn't this guy been paying attention? Bush could walk into Guantanamo, personally brutalize a prisoner (as if Bush would ever do any of the dirty work himself) and then shoot him in the head in front of live news cameras, and still get away with it.

...And 'Murikans from sea to shining sea would praise him for it.