Don’t Gag Ma Bell
Congressman Dingell notes that the government continues to gag Ma Bell. Why should we give her immunity so long as Dick Cheney won’t let her talk.
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.
Congressman Dingell notes that the government continues to gag Ma Bell. Why should we give her immunity so long as Dick Cheney won’t let her talk.
Why is Democratic turnout swamping Republican turnout?
Bush has traded 84 nominations in lieu of getting Steven Bradbury approved. But few people seem to understand why Bush is so desperate: So long as Bradbury remains at OLC, two things will happen. Bradbury effectively gives the Bush Administration carte blanche to break the law–and protection for having broken the law in the past. Since AG Mukasey won’t prosecute anything that OLC (and therefore Steven Bradbury) has sanctioned, the Administration is guaranteed it can do what it wants so long as Bradbury is there.
I haven’t commented on the FBI investigation of the NRCC treasurer, Christopher Ward yet because, well, because this damn FISA bill is taking all my time.
Top House Republicans were told in recent days that a former employee of their campaign committee may have forged an official audit during the contentious 2006 election cycle and that they should brace for the possibility that an unfolding investigation could uncover financial improprieties stretching back
Votes on two Feingold amendments.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that, according to the Tuesday through Thursday Republicans and the Most-Vacation-Ever President, working extra days is extra-constitutional.
Mukasey on deferred prosecutions, torture, and contempt.
Michael Mukasey just refused to respond to Robert Wexler’s question of whether he “had been instructed” not to enforce the subpoenas on Miers and Bolten.
Michael Mukasey once again answers for Dick’s lawbreaking.
Scottish Haggis started making a list yesterday of the statutes