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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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  • Friday, December 5, 2008 07:23 AM

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    I don't endorse all of Mark Schmitt's points, and heck dangit I'm getting impatient waiting for the islamocommunism I voted for.

    And I reckon I'll be to the "left" of Obama and his "centrists" in 2012, so I reckon I'll be voting against him and them, then, but that won't mean that I'll regret my 2008 vote.

    Meanwhile, Schmitt provides a good perspective on presidency as a marathon, not a sprint.

    Mark Schmitt, November 17, 2008:

    http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_audacity_of_patience

    —sysprog Read sysprog's other letters

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