Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
One of the reasons Jay Rockefeller wrote a narrative of the OLC memo process tied to torture was to document just how little the Administration gave a shit about what Congress had to say about the program–particularly it’s demand that the torture program comply with the Convention Against Torture.
The UAW was willing to negotiate, but the banksters weren’t. So Chrysler will now enter bankruptcy.
The Obama administration will announce at noon today that it will take Chrysler LLC into a historic bankruptcy to force a cut in debt key to a partnership with Fiat S.p.A. after three firms refused a sweetened offer.
With the UAW late Wednesday ratifying cost cuts in its contract and cuts in the money due its retiree
You and I are not the audience for Obama’s answer to this question. The audience for this answer is those who idolize Churchill, conservatives who place national security above all. The audience for this answer is a group of Republicans who can be persuaded on this point.
Ultimately, though, to the question “Did the Bush Administration sanction torture,” is, “Whatever legal rationales were used, it was a mistake.”