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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
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, December 4, 2008 01:03 PM

    Similar questions

    Q: Would you cut your leg off, with a hacksaw, if it meant finding a cure for cancer.

    Q: Would you dismember your mother, or spouse, or child, to point of death if it meant solving global warming and the certain rescue of the human race.

    These are questions anyone can answer for him/herself as a moral/ethical exercise, but they have no relation whatsoever to the current practice of torture here or elsewhere in the world. They are totally unrelated questions.

    —casual_observer Read casual_observer's other letters

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