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Ari Fleischer was taking Amnesty International "seriously" enough to use that organization's lack of criticism of the details of the British "list", to support his argument. It showed, that unlike Cheney in May, 2005, Fleischer, speaking in Dec., 2002, took Amnesty International seriously enough to infer that their lack of criticism of the British "list", somehow legitimized it!
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AI's criticism or lack there of, of the list means nothing in this context beyond the question at hand. AI was bitching, and Ari pointed out it wasn't what was in the list they were bitching about. That is a far cry from you claim that he did so to legitimize the list.
And host it didn't require a lot of demonizing Iraq on our part, Saddam did that nicely for us. AI was not a tree we were standing on, its not even a twig, its a minor footnote who's actions or inactions had no effect on the outcome. May they have been cited at times against Iraq? Sure maybe, I don't have all day to check your links, and even less time to ferret out misinterpretations, like the above. Using them in such a manner is a far cry from saying that they are accurate in their assessment of US treatment of detainees or that they must always be taken at their word. Even the NY Times get a story right once in a while. (and I hope you get the analogy).