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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 12:40 PM

    Timothy3, you're...

    either a liar or an idiot. Of *course* the torture has been cast in a Right-vs-Left issue: The Republicans are for it, the Democrats want to stop it. That meme's been floating around this site for years. What Greenwald's article recognizes -- but you refuse to -- is that some Democrats' backtracking on the issue puts the lie to the Manichean political philosophy held by many on the Left. And I offer no defense of the Right in making that statement. They're just as bad.

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