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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 11:40 AM

    @GG

    I'm not directing this at you -- I know you're basically making this point -- but I couldn't believe how Wyden's spokesperson called me all angry and aggressive about how I had misunderstood and distorted his point, and then when I kept asking what his view was, she kept describing it EXACTLY how I characterized it.

    Believe it.. we live in the postrational age. The reaction from Wyden's camp is hardly typical and can be translated from politico-gobbledygook thusly: "You said something negative about us! Stop it!". No matter what they say, that's pretty much all the informational content you're going to get.

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