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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 06:17 AM

    @BernieO

    Meanwhile all those people who were so fired up about this election need to get off their fannies and start acting like real citizens by contacting Congress, writing (well-reasoned, fact-based) letters to media outlets, etc. Until we all hold their collective feet to the fire, nothing will change. Democracy is not a spectator sport, people.

    -- BernieO

    You're assuming that "all those people" are sitting on their "fannies"? Seriously, I wonder why it is that people tend to assume that they are all alone in their vigilance while everyone else is complacently sitting on their "fannies".

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