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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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  • Thursday, December 4, 2008 12:04 PM

    @Retz

    you can kill someone, but you will have to pay the consequences, even if it was in self-defense

    That is incorrect. There would be no consequences under the criminal law. Self-defense is a perfect, i.e., complete, defense.

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