Prospects are dimming for the prosecution of Bush administration lawyers who authorized the torture of foreign prisoners. In a draft report, Justice Department investigators say the lawyers — John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Steven Bradbury — shouldn’t face criminal charges for authoring memos that backed a range of abuses including waterboarding and physical assault. The report, however, does say they showed serious lapses in judgment and recommends referring Yoo and Bybee to their state bar associations for possible disciplinary action, including disbarment. Bybee is an appeals court judge, while Yoo is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.