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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 05:11 PM

    DCLaw1 & adnoto

    Exactly. The anger - personalized, direct, concrete, and intolerable - is nowhere near approaching the level required for a sufficiently potent and widespread campaign of civil disobedience.

    I agree with this. I've often felt people don't act until a critical mass is somehow achieved (and the image I carry in my mind is that of a nuclear weapon). Anything that prevents that from happening prevents fundamental change. Nothing cerebral here, just an opinion.

    adnoto (re: PDA): I never said anything about what you want, because I don't know what you want. I don't think any of us knows. You've never said. -- Paul Daniel Ash

    Also a lie.

    How is this a lie? I don't recall you ever being specific about anything you've proposed. You will correct me if I'm wrong (but please don't agitate me and raise my blood sugar level--I'm Dianetic, after all).

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