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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 02:26 PM

    Tragedian

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

    Uh oh. That's chops talk and I love chops (we're talking pork, right?). Do I need to lay waste to you? I don't want to, really.

    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.

    Huh? Who said, apart from you, that "their side isn't the principled champion of justice that many here would suggest"?

    Again, which side is that? Let me make this plain: the struggle--nay, the fight--against indecency, illegality, and unprincipled behavior is never ending. This isn't a left/right issue no matter how much you'd like to make it so.

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