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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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  • Thursday, December 4, 2008 03:09 PM

    PDA

    What is needed in order to put an end to the Bush torture regime are absolute, unequivocal, and transparent legal prohibitions governing interrogations, ones that are devoid of ambiguity, flexibility and secrecy. -- GG

    What good are more laws if people won't follow them and there are no repercussions for breaking them?

    Alex, I'm going to take "it was a load of shit" for $200 -- Paul Daniel Ash

    A load of shit huh? Yeah? You and yours won't address it because it's got you by the balls. Quit being such a crybaby.

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