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Is this for real? Did Rice unilaterally signal a major change of US policy on treatment of detainees? What happened to Cheney? I'm all for it, but just -- skeptical. Where's the evidence of the change of a policy they never wholly admitted but argued the legal right for? Update: Eric Umansky says there's nothing new here. "The key point is that nearly a year ago then-attorney general Gonzales offered just the same language Rice did," he writes. "It wasn't a change in policy and isn't one now; because they consider the anti-torture convention to have loopholes." So, they're just trying to fool everybody, until this gets out of the headlines? Sound about right?