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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 05:45 AM

    Tonight at NYU

    http://lawandsecurity.org/events/aftertorture.cfm

    The Center on Law and Security

    New York University School of Law

    After Torture: Discussing a Plan for Justice in the Post-Bush Era

    Event Details

    *This event is free and open to the public*

    Date: December 4, 2008
    Time: 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
    Location: Lipton Hall, 108 W. 3rd Street

    Featured Speakers:

    The Honorable Elizabeth Holtzman, co-chair of Herrick Feinstein LLP's government relations practice;

    Scott Horton, contributor, Harper's Magazine and Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School;

    Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY);

    Burt Neuborne, Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties, NYU Law;

    Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights;

    Major General Antonio Taguba, U.S. Army, Ret.

    * * * * *

    Another web page says the event is BY INVITATION - - not "open to the public".

    https://its.law.nyu.edu/eventcalendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.detail&id=15358

    "By invitation and R.S.V.P. only"

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