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Democrats Take a Second Look at Torture
Weekly Standard Blog —
Michael Scherer flags this quote from Dianne Feinstein in today's Times:
Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who will take over as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in January, led the fight this year to force the C.I.A. to follow military interrogation rules. Her bill was passed by Congress but vetoed by President Bush.
But in an interview on Tuesday, Mrs. Feinstein indicated that extreme cases might call for flexibility. “I think that you have to use the noncoercive standard to the ...
Remainders: New look
Ben Smith's Blog —
... still for the Employee Free Choice Act. Curtly.
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Bill Richardson can now be a secret emissary.
Cillizza thinks he was sending secret signals to Hillary.
Judicial Watch doesn't believe in the Saxbe Fix.
Barack Obama has a holiday in Alabama.
Fox News finally got to ask a question, having been put in its place.
The future of interrogation policy remains unclear.
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