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Its willful blindness. it is an attempt to defend a flawed legal theory to support a torture program. >> an error of co-mission is turned into an error of omission. you mentioned what is not in this report. its over 300 pages. is there anything in it that gets us to understanding what happened in the bush administration that established torture as acceptable? >> a lot of it will be interesting to law professors and legal experts in the extent to which people like bybee left out critical pieces, ...

Unfortunate choices in dinner guests. not when you support a torture program. what were seeing now is the dismantling precedent that we created at nuremberg, when we said you cant facilitate war crimes and say it was simply bad judgment. everyone who commits war crimes often thinks about their own accountability. they often go to lawyers to facilitate them. thats why they were so critical at nuremberg. what were seeing now is that were treating it just like it was a bad day. its more than that. ...

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening. im jim lehrer. special teams of u.s. marines were air-dropped behind taliban lines in southern afghanistan as a major offensive entered its seventh day. >> woodruff: and im judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we get an update on risks for u.s. troops taking part in the fight around the insurgent stronghold of marjah. >> lehrer: then, a dramatic tale of life on the front lines in the battle against the talib...

Cant go back on that. another said that tiger tried to regain control of the situation, and too much control, and some will wait until we see how tiger woods does when he comes out on to the golf course perhaps sometime this year. wolf? >> together with the rest of the world. all right. richard, thank you. all right. this is just coming into "the situation room." right now, a long awaited justice department report on the so-called torture memos. those were the opinions from justice department ...

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening. im jim lehrer. special teams of u.s. marines were air-dropped behind taliban lines in southern afghanistan as a major offensive entered its seventh day. >> woodruff: and im judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we get an update on risks for u.s. troops taking part in the fight around the insurgent stronghold of marjah. >> lehrer: then, a dramatic tale of life on the front lines in the battle against the talib...

.. there are some things i want to say. elin and i have started the process of discussing the damage caused by my behavior. as elin pointed out to me, my real apology to her will not come in the form of words. it will come from my behavior over time. he certainly blamed himself, but he also took a shot at the news media. my failures have made me look at myself in a way that i never wanted to before. its now up to me to make amends. that starts by never repeating the mistakes ive ...

>> it is so nice to see sony people here tonight and to welcome our friend david swanson. i first met david swanson, its got to get a couple, two to three years ago already and its a guy in there. the south florida impeachment coalitions brought david swanson down to speak. they invited me to come down as well. and thats when i first met david swanson, and since then ive been lucky enough to consider him a friend even though its the only second time weve met in person. but he has been...

not believe the corrective actions that they have planned are aggressive enough, and -- for us to be comfortable in terms of how theyre solving the problem. >> dont they have to be implemented before you give them the money? i mean, to accept a man that hasnt yet been immimentplemented. >> let me give you an example. lets say they have an authmated -- automated billing system and in order to correct it, we need 45 days to correct it but were going to set up a manual billing system to -...

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