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.
Remember Tan Nguyen? He’s the asshole who, in his race against Loretta Sanchez in 2006, sent out fliers in Spanish to recently registered voters warning that immigrants could be imprisoned if they voted.
He was indicted on October 1 on one charge of obstruction. Two years after he tried to dissuade Latinos from voting.
Now, I’m thrilled he’s been indicted.
The Secret Service has decided it’s better if they just pretend Sarah Palin’s not inciting ugly racism.
Honest, Vicki Iseman says. She didn’t ask to share a blanket with John McCain.
Scott Horton explains that the McCain camp and Bill Kristol are in such a tiff because McCain’s loyalists are pissed at Kristol for sticking them with Palin.
SH: Right. And if you look just in the news cycle from the last 48 hours, I would say the anger and irritation between a number of the senior people in the McCain camp and Bill Kristol has become really acute.
The DNC’s now targeting state legislative races.
How convenient that AT&T and Verizon–the two biggest known collaborators on the illegal warrantless wiretap program–are the two companies bending over backwards to give McCain his own personal telecomm system.
Will McCain have to choose his manhood or his honor during tonight’s debate? With Bob Schieffer as moderator, I predict he won’t have to make that choice.
Todd Palin reminds me of the character Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings, lurking around and spying for the tyrants in power. And some of it may have been illegal.
I thought Sarah Palin promised she’d prevent Vladimir Putin from invading the US. But while she’s been distracted with her VP bid, the Russians went and invaded Alaska.
Joby Warrick reports about two memos that explicitly authorized the CIA to torture. What he doesn’t reveal is who signed those memos. Did George Bush sign a memo authorizing torture?