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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 05:45 AM

    Presumably, a security insider said "Boogety boogety" to them, and then they said "O Noez!"

    If it required an external stimulus (I mean, outside their own heads), I wouldn't be surprised if some hawkish security insider just said to them, "Hey, you guys are in charge now, and we are barely keeping America safe from all these attacks, and if you stop us from doing our jobs and something happens, we will make sure America knows it's your fault for getting in the way of our job."

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