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Everyone absolutely must read Feinstein's full statement. Most of the press coverage is woefully lacking in the details and context that move this into really s

• a3n 13y ago
  This would make a great opening statement.
• Zigurd 13y ago
  Significantly, Robert Eatinger, the CIA lawyer who threatened Feinstein's staffers was the same person who OK'ed the destruction of the torture tapes, and who knew that the torture was way out of bounds in at least two specific ways: Waterboarding was widely used and used repeatedly, and that sleep deprivation was also used beyond the parameters that were OK'ed, never mind that both are torture in the first place. And what are the odds that the known crimes are the tip of the iceberg? In other words, he OK'ed the destruction of evidence of very serious crimes.