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Why do Feinstein and Wyden sound much different on the torture issue now?

The two Senators spent the year emphatically insisting that the CIA's interrogators comply with the Army Field Manual. With Democrats in control, they're not so emphatic any longer

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  • Friday, December 5, 2008 12:28 PM

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    Prate away about how I don't know what I'm talking about then...

    Okay, I'll prate. You don't know what you're talking about. Is there anything--anything?--you've written that isn't known to readers here already? No (and I'll answer my own question). Let me steal from PDA (with your quote in hand): I'm telling you nothing would accomplish it at this point. Not going to have a Revolution. It's not going to happen. Not NOW.

    "Glad that's clear. Anything else? K. Now that you've totally given up, of course, you have lost all credibility to bitch about the current state of affairs. You do realize that, right?"

    Good grief, man. Rise up from the armchair and give life a whirl.

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