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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 09:38 AM

    emaydon re Feinstein

    The opinion you linked to is questionable.

    Is Feinstein equivocating, or is she unequivocal?

    Here's what Scherer concluded.

    http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/12/03/interrogation-policy-still-a-bit-shadowy/

    An aide to Feinstein contacted me this evening to say that the New York Times cut off part of her statement to the paper.

    That full statement, however, seems to only confirm the Times' suggestion that Feinstein is backing away from the Army Field Manual standard for all interrogations, in favor of an alternative, still undefined, "single standard across the government."

    - - Michael Scherer

    * * * * *

    I agree with Scherer.

    It's another feinsteinweaselanswer (thanks, pieceofcake).

    No apology owed to Feinstein.

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