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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 09:53 AM

    Seamless...

    The transition of the Chair of the Intelligence Committee from Roberts to Rockefeller to Feinstein has been so smooth and seamless as to make me wonder if all three have ever been seen in the same room at one time.

    How someone as corrupt as Feinstein can be allowed to chair the Intel Committee is yet another indictment of the Democrats. Was no one paying attention when she chaired the Rules Committee? Or, were they just hoping no one was paying attention?

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