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washingtonindependent.com - 12/4/2008
UPDATED: Why Is Dianne Feinstein Being Misquoted?
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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 Tuesday, Mrs. Feinstein indicated that extreme cases ...
swampland.blogs.time.com - 12/4/2008
Dianne Feinstein Leaves The Door Open
— swampland.blogs.time.com — 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 ... (more) Dianne Feinstein Leaves The Door Open

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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/6/2008
Feinstein Issues Statement on Torture
— 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. (more) Feinstein Issues Statement on Torture

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weeklystandard.com - 12/4/2008
Democrats Take a Second Look at Torture
— weeklystandard.com — 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 ... (more) Democrats Take a Second Look at Torture

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Think Progress:  New York Times cuts out crucial sentence from Feinstein quote on torture.

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  The NYT And The T-Word, Ctd

Open Left - Front Page:  Where Did Who, What, When, Where, Why Go?

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New York Times cuts out crucial sentence from Feinstein quote on torture.
Think Progress — ... ” in terms of allowing torture in interrogations. The comments by Feinstein, who will take over as chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in January, worried ...

The NYT And The T-Word, Ctd
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... - cowardly in its language and stupid in its description of torture opponents as somehow all "left-wing" - also misquoted Senator Feinstein as Ackerman reports. Here's the full quote from Feinstein, which the NYT truncated: ...

Where Did Who, What, When, Where, Why Go?
Open Left - Front Page — ...  Spencer Ackerman, a journalist who has traveled extensively in both Iraq and Afghanistan and worked at an important think tank, wrote about it here, in fact doing original research on the story as a journalist. ...

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