on the bridge just before they took off, there was a last-minute conference with captain pete mitchell and the squadron commanders. pat mitchell again requested the fighters all of them accompanying the devastate terse he said they would stay up with the dive bombers. there was then heated disagreement over the course that they would follow. he said the course of a butterfly would be 265 degrees almost due west. wallgren spoke up in this agreement aggressively. the last sighting of the japanese carriers had been 230 degrees southwest. wallgren proposed a course of 240. mitchell ended the argument. they went out at 265 degrees. at 750 they left the hornets, 44 planes up in 18 to 20,000 feet and 3 miles below them the 15 planes of waldron. at 8:16, and there was a strictly enforced code of radio silence on this mission and we can all appreciate why, troy and ben, to dive bomber pilots heard a voice come over the radio career without a call sign. they recognized the voice and it was john waldron and he said we are going in the wrong direction and later i know where the dam japanese fleet

our justice correspondent pete williams, our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, both in our washington newsroom. pete, we'll start with you. how big is this? >> i think it's big in two ways. first, because a prosecutor will now look into how detainees were treated in the days after 9/11. and secondly, now the fbi will have the starring role in future interrogations under white house direction, brian. >> and andrea, part of this is going to be a change in the way they do business in washington and elsewhere a break from the past? >> it is. it is the clearest break yesterday from the bush white house, by putting the fbi in charge of detaining and interrogating terror suspects, as pete says, the obama administration is essentially removing the cia from its central role. this as a newly declassified cia report outlines a litany of abuses that crosses the line into illegal torture. for the first time, the cia report released today details threats against prisoners' family, sexual humiliation, mock executions, a litany abuses of cia interrogators at secret prisons overseas.