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.
Word is George Bush is going to give money to GM and Chrysler. He is expected to put the money through their credit arms: GMAC and Chrysler Finance.
In other words, Cerberus (otherwish known as Dan Quayle and John Snow and a bunch of other wired Republicans) will get some benefit out of this.
As you may have noticed, a small war has erupted at the mothership over the nature of the invocation at Obama’s inauguration on January 20, 2009. Specifically, whether or not it is appropriate for Obama to have Rick Warren participate. The general FDL position is that it is not appropriate to have Warren participate because he is a discriminatory bigot, to the LGBT community and others. I agree with this, but why is any of this – Warren, Lowery, or any other religious figure – an official part of the inauguration?
Golly. Both Karl Rove and his defense attorney are beating up on Obama because he acceded to Patrick Fitzgerald’s request that he hold off a week so as to give Fitzgerald time to move the investigation forward. But Rove himself refuses to talk about his role in this corruption ring. So do you think Rove is trying to give Obama some unsolicited political advice? Or trying to scuttle the investigation?
Multiple stories–several explicitly sourced to Jesse Jackson Jr’s allies–report that Jesse Jackson has cooperated with Fitz in the past. Here are some data points on JJJ’s cooperation and other involvement.
He apparently told Fitz earlier this year that in 2003, Blago conditioned a position for JJJ’s wife on a $25,000 donation.
Jackson has been in regular contact with the feds and has told the government that in 2003 Blagojevich denied the congressman’s wife