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.
NYT has now matched its scold to Biden about what he “should” do and order to Democrats about what they “must” say with an op-ed on Trump, observing that he “is” unfit to lead with no more than an urgent call on voters to do something about it. Would that NYT would match that opinion with equal parts reporting on why Trump is unfit.
Viktor Orbán is working overtime to deliver Trump the “peace” deal in Ukraine that Putin wants.
In February, David Sanger reported that even before Trump threatened to let Vladimir Putin invade NATO countries, European allies were discussing the possibility the US would withdraw from NATO. Now, he claims they’re doing so only because Biden had a poor debate.
An annotation of the front page of the NYT, pointing out that NYT calls Biden “defiant” twice, two NATO stories claim they’re about Biden when they’re not, and NYT is spinning their own adoption of a conspiracy theory about Parkinson’s. Not mentioned? The GOP’s radical and deceitful platform.
Peter Baker read a report saying that Biden’s physician added a movement disorder neurologic specialist to treat Biden’s gait problem, and instead concluded that the movement disorder neurologic specialist who has been visiting the White House must there about the Parkinson’s that Biden’s team specifically ruled out.
When Dana Bash let Marco Rubio lie at length about whether Trump had ever targeted his rivals for criminal prosecution, she let slide a fabricated claim that Joe Biden received a bribe from Ukraine.
Joe Biden has a point that the mob calling for him to drop out of the race have often been proven wrong about elections in the past. But the mob has a point that he may not have the stamina to run while also fulfilling the duty of President.
Nicole and I talked about Joe BIden and John Roberts.
Jim Jordan helpfully published intelligence analysis of how Trump’s narcissism poses a risk to the United States.
The value of the diamonds for which Brazil will charge Jair Bolsonaro laundering pale in comparison to the money Saudi Arabia has given to that other coup-plotter, Donald Trump.