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Happens again. >> mr. nance, i want you to listen to the sound bite from the o'reilly program last night on this issue. >> you just made another mistake. >> all right. >> navy s.e.a.l.s and special forces are waterboarded during their training. i'm sure you know that. okay? >> yes. >> they don't say it's torture. >> yes they do. >> are they waterboarded in their training? >> you know, some may because waterboarding is actually no longer done. it's not been done since this controversy broke out in 2005 when we found out that the people who were being trained had their template taken, a template...

We got executive orders that banned torture, committed to closing guantanamo, that reversed the so-called ashkroft rule which is a rule that kept documents secret during the last administration. and then a few months into this administration, the president decided to release the memos that were the basis for the bush's administration torture program. those were all historic decisions, pro civil liberty decisions, and also pro security decisions. i think if you step back now and look at the broader pattern, what you see increasingly is that this administration is adopting the same frame work th...

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...

Week, and he made a good point, once this goes to the penalty phase, khalid shaikh mohammed will be allowed to bring up all of the evidence about what happened to him in custody -- >> getting the death penalty will be pretty hard. >> if they pursue the death penalty, all this torture stuff will be litigated in open court. >> this is the problem with the bush administration's torture program. you can't torture people and get away with it. and it's left a legacy of trouble for the obama administration and that's what they're dealing with. >> they've clearly lost the politics for this on now, but...