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 once smooth, efficient and ruthless political machine that was the Republican Party has turned into a pathetic low brow comedy troupe. In yesterday’s episode, we saw John and Cindy Drysdale McCain move in with the Palins Clampetts. In today’s show, Arizona Representative John Shaddegg, part of the GOP House Leadership, sends Double Naught Super Secret Agent Jethro Bodine on a deep cover spy mission to the Arizona Democratic Headquarters.
The FDL family has had a profound positive impact on the federal scene on issues surrounding the rule of law. We are all hurt when justice is politicized, even at the state and local level. One of the worst imaginable of these situations is in Maricopa County Arizona, and Tim Nelson is in a battle to turn the tide and restore the fair and equal rule of law. tim Nelson needs your help to win the war.
Fox News is preparing for what ocmes after the election. First came the news that Fox News was hiring Glenn Beck, replacing one of its shows dedicated to the election with yet more wingnuttia.
And now, they’ve hired someone whose greatest expertise is in laundering politically motivated leaks to give them “respectability.”