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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 04:53 PM

    @adnoto

    I do not want a revolution (if one can be avoided).

    I never said anything about what you want, because I don't know what you want. I don't think any of us knows. You've never said.

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