know we all really love to see that memorandum and how it's reaching the conclusions it reaches scott horton thanks so much for being with us tonight scott. merry christmas and happy new year thanks and the same to us or. raise the alert beware of the exploding sure it all goes a spanish newspaper has been ordered to pay more than one hundred thousand bucks to thirteen readers after they suffered severe burns trying to cook a chair all recipe published in that newspaper the recipe to follow it exactly inevitably leads to the cho exploding in. chile's supreme court the nation of chile ruled that the newspaper failed to fully test out the recipe before publishing it and is thus responsible for any subsequent injuries the owner of the newspaper has agreed to abide by the court's ruling although he admits he did deliver on his promise to radio readers a church with an explosion of flavor. next if you thought your interaction with the t.s.a. was over once you left the airport this weekend think again the t.s.a. is expanding its operations so what does that mean for our privacy. and what drives th

new york and to talk more about the implications of all this earlier i spoke to scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine he told me why u.s. and pakistani relations have had an all time low take a look. i think there's no question about this since august independence the relationship has never been as torn is right now this was last year two thousand and eleven has been the rockiest year yet and the relationship and the other three specific incidents that punctuate the first of the b. early in the year we had. the raymond davis. acting cia station chief who shot and killed two pakistanis who turned out to be intelligence so exhilarates then of course we had the osama bin ladin or a which i think from the perspective of us were the must have had to be done and fully justified but nevertheless was hugely embarrassing to the subjects of course it really revealed the fact that he was there obviously operating under the protection of senior military figures and the rate went off without getting permission pakistani authorities and now we hav

conversation arise as to whether or not this entire war was worth it joining me to discuss to scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine scott i want to thank you for joining us tonight and i first just want to get your opinion on what you think of well you know they're making a really big deal this week the president is going to be making a number of trips a number of speeches he hosted the iraq prime minister at the white house today it's very ceremonial. well it's another of. those is the american war in iraq and you know i think that was. starting to work obama it's filled with pledges . but it's also it's definitely an effort with the best possible. and you know he also said today that america can leave with its head held high what do you think about the iraq that we're going to be or that the troops are going to be leaving behind as i mentioned there's going to be a strong contractor presence there but if you look at the internal politics if you look at the relationship between iraq and the u.s. now you can say that it's a government

their person of the year but can the media actually differentiate what each country is protesting scott horton is going to join us for that then human rights groups are launching a broad campaign to bring legal challenges to the u.s. use of drones and speak to clive stafford smith one of the men leading this charge and show you some very devastating pictures from pakistan the normally unseen results of striking from afar then president obama continued his iraq victory tour by speaking at fort bragg today and telling the troops welcome home or just because john soltz who just returned from iraq will ask him what kind of a country he thinks we've left behind are not all that morphine and i could have a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so as i just mentioned time magazine which nobody really reads in a war except for when they come out with this one issue finally said who their person of the year winner is and i was a little less vague that one time when they just named you but was still a gigantic group of people fighting for differe