Bush to destroy the evidence of abuse?

How convenient for the Bush administration. Now that the accounts of abuse filtering out of Gitmo and our other prison camps can no longer be avoided or ignored, the Pentagon has cleared the way for military tribunals by appointing a chief prosecutor and chief defence counsel. (I guess independent defense counsel would be out of the question.)

Even more convenient, the "Pentagon rules for the tribunals permit death sentences to be passed and the construction of a death chamber at the camp is among options being considered." That should make it easier to sweep the atrocities under the rug. With all the freed prisoners blabbing about torture and abuse, how much easier to simply find them all guilty and execute them without any bothersome public scrutiny. It's difficult not to think that if they had nothing to hide, they would have open trials, not secret tribunals.

If this doesn't evoke Nazi Germany, then I don't know what does. News like this makes me ashamed to admit I'm an American.