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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 10:48 PM

    @ kovie

    Personally, though, I think that Glenn has to do what Digby did. There are lines.

    Censor anyone who discusses how voting for more Democrats might not be the solution to our country's civil liberties "problem"?? Yeah, that's a mature and productive solution...

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