DOJ: Give Us More Powers Because We F*** Up So Often
EFF catches Robert Mueller playing fast and lose with the facts on a National Security Letter.
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.
EFF catches Robert Mueller playing fast and lose with the facts on a National Security Letter.
Conyers wants DOJ to admit that Mukasey was spinning wildly when he claims a revamped FISA could have prevented 9/11. And by demonstration that Mukasey was spinning wildly, he highlights that the Administration–not the House–has been negotiating in bad faith.
In his apparent denials that we torture, Bush has basically stated that “Anything we do to the end of protecting the American people is within the law.” Bush has really been parroting the Yoo Memo for years.
The press still hasn’t noticed that the President of the United States just admitted that he signed off on torture. The WaPo believes it has, but it appears to be unclear on the difference between Alberto Gonzales and George Bush.
Why is it that all the top lawyers that have left the Bush Administration of late have such a tough time finding a job?
Is Pope Benedict blowing off his State Dinner because he doesn’t want to associate with a torturer?
George Bush admitted to approving torture. And no one seems to care.
Bush took the opportunity of a Friday night news dump interview with Martha Raddatz to basically dismiss any concerns that the POTUS authorized torture.
Did Viktor Bout have any “game” besides simply getting rich? And if so, do the Russians think the game is not yet over?
John Yoo’s Dean writes a memo on Yoo’s academic freedom.