swampland.blogs.time.com - 12/4/2008
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Incoming Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, released another statement today, in the hopes of clarifying her position on what standards the Obama Administration should use to govern interrogations. This follows her comments earlier this week , which ...
salon.com - 12/4/2008
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salon.com —
Time constraints prevented me yesterday from writing about
Dianne Feinstein's comments concerning torture in yesterday's New York...
Times , in which the California Senator -- who will replace Jay Rockefeller as Chairperson of the Senate Intelligence ...
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Why do Feinstein and Wyden sound much different on the ...
washingtonindependent.com - 12/4/2008
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washingtonindependent.com —
Buried in that New York Times story I
mentioned earlier about Obama’s quest for a CIA director...
comes this weird quote from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that kind of sort of seems acquiescent to some forms of torture: But in an interview on ...
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UPDATED: Why Is Dianne Feinstein Being Misquoted?
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/6/2008
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com —
After some bloggers raised concerns that Senator Dianne
Feinstein might be shifting her stance on the issue...
of American interrogation policy, the California Democrat has sought to clarify her views.
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Feinstein Issues Statement on Torture
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Feinstein releases another statement: I strongly believe there should be a single, clear standard for interrogation across the federal government, and that this standard should comply with the Geneva Convention, the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and U.S. law. I plan to introduce legislation in January that would close Guantanamo, make the Army Field Manual the single standard for interrogations, prohibit contractors from being used to carry out interrogations and provide the International Committee of the Red Cross with access to detainees. If ...
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