Conyers Has Gotten Cranky
John Conyers begins to set up a legal paper trail to document his crankiness with the Unitary Executive.
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.
John Conyers begins to set up a legal paper trail to document his crankiness with the Unitary Executive.
Some of us, okay, I am referring to myself, thought that FISA was cooked yesterday and that the fork might as well be stuck in. As I said in the last thread,…the House is putting on what appears to be a better showing than the Senate, but I have no doubt that it is all kabuki and the deal is done.
A couple of people have inquired about a liveblog on the Clemens hearings. I was initially fairly uninclined to do that here because we usually deal with more important subjects. But I am fed up with FISA and the dereliction of duty of our Congress on that issue. I also have some time on my hands for a while today and think that there are many issues that really are important that are in play in the Clemens mess; so here we go.
Is Obama headed to MI to ask for Edwards’ support–or for his supporters’?
We gained DiFi and Amy Kobuchar from the PAA vote. That’s not so much.
John Conyers reminds the Administration they’re still sitting on all the documents relevant to FISA.
Another day, another sellout. Make a record. Because we are certainly going to be appealing what our Senate, and Congress, is doing to us and our Constitution by their cancerous and derelict actions on FISA.
Not all caucuses are created equal.
Russ Feingold accuses George Bush of committing the “perfect crime.”
RevDeb and Selise ask for a forum; who am I to say no?