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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 11:34 AM

    @Peter Marancini

    Just wanted to say I enjoyed reading your letter on this article, and I agree especially with the points you made about isolation and the breakdown of extended families as contributing factors in the general population's disengagement from the political process.

    Kurt Vonnegut recognized this over 30 years ago. He used to say loneliness was our national malaise.

    http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/12/04/feinstein/permalink/d04f257efe71e9f38f4a6e5b337b724b.html

    —NRI1969 Read NRI1969's other letters

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