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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 12:20 PM

    Good news for bloggers afraid of being considered mostly harmless

    http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/5/the_blogging_revolution_a_look_at

    December 05, 2008

    The Blogging Revolution: A Look at the Repression of Online Journalism Around the World

    A new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists says more internet journalists are jailed today than journalists in any other medium. [...]

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    Just because paranoid tyrants are afraid of one doesn't necessarily prove that one is a true threat . . . but it's a start.

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