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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 06:10 AM

    Field Manual a bad idea...

    Requiring the CIA or any other gestapo organization of the US government to follow the Army Field Manual is a bad idea. Why? Because it is a (relatively) simple thing for the Pentagon to change the manual or add a "classified" addendum. Instead of simply requiring the obeying of the Field Manual, they should spell out what the Field Manual says NOW without any secret shit added onto it, without any changes, and hold them ALL to that standard so that nothing in the Field Manual CAN change or be modified.

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