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It's 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. it's 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, where he was aware of supreme court cases that go the other way and just leaves them out. in one c...

Unfortunate choices in dinner guests. not when you support a torture program. what we're seeing now is the dismantling precedent that we created at nuremberg, when we said you can't 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. that's why they were so critical at nuremberg. what we're seeing now is that we're treating it just like it was a bad day. it's more than that. but what we're losing in all of this is one of the core principles of nuremberg. >> so the nex...

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening. i'm 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 i'm 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 taliban. >> an offensive operation in a counterinsurgency is about taking that away from the insurgents...

Can't 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 lawyers during the bush administration that authorized harsh interrogation techniques including wat...

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening. i'm 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 i'm 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 taliban. >> an offensive operation in a counterinsurgency is about taking that away from the insurgents...