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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 12:43 PM

    Wbgonne

    If this is in fact your point, then "b) that information can be reliably extracted via torture", sort of shitcans it before you can further down the alphabet. Torture is the least effective means of extracting information. There are no circumstances where it has proven more effective. Period.

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