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.
The CIA doesn’t want the Bradbury OLC memos made public. Given the details of the ICRC report, it’s clear that it’s not because its news. Rather, if the OLC memos are made public, it’ll make it clear Bradbury gave legal cover for these actions even after they had already done physical and mental damage with them.
Bob Corker has been cynically lying. He has been claiming that if GM’s Spring Hill plant is closed in bankruptcy, it will be the result of politics. But Corker undoubtedly knows that, one of the few things used as collateral for any of GM’s secured debt, Spring Hill will be one of the first things to be liquidated.
I noted the other day that Timmeh (or, according to other coverage of this, Helicopter Ben) told the banks to keep their stress test results to themselves.
Well, apparently, stockholder and taxpayers are not the only ones left out of the secret. So is Congressional Oversight Board Chair Elizabeth Warren. In fact, she’s not even allowed to know the formulas they used to measuring the banks.
So here’s a Happy Easter story of puppies and pirates.
There once was a Portuguese Water puppy that lived, for a time, with older cousins at a big estate in Hyannisport, MA. Because the puppy’s cousin’s people were Democrats, the puppy learned not only basic puppy manners, but also a fine respect for Democratic institutions, including social services, tolerance, and solidarity with other working breeds.
There came a time when that Portuguese Water