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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 02:19 PM

    @Timothy3

    How funny that someone who has to look up Aeschylus on Wikipedia thinks he has the rhetorical chops to lay waste to anyone.

    What stings (I suppose) is the creeping realization on the Left that their side isn't the principled champion of justice that many here would suggest.

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