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.
If the hapless Democratic Congress ever gets around to an investigation through which they can ask Reggie to turn over the CIA Leak case grand jury materials.
But for now, I’d say he’s still cranky, wouldn’t you?In commuting the defendant’sthirty-month term of incarceration, the President stated that thesentence imposed by this Court was “excessive†and that two years ofsupervised release and a $250,000 alone are a “harsh punishment†for anindividual convicted
Let’s pretend, for a second that all the other reasons why the cries of “runaway prosecutor” from the Libby Lobby don’t exist. Set aside the fact that the FBI and then Fitzgerald were investigating all leaks of Valerie Wilson’s identity, not just those to Robert Novak. Set aside the fact that the 1X2X6 story (as well as the clear evidence of at least three leaks by October 12, 2003) didn’t have
The NYT reports that Sara Taylor will come before the SJC today and testify about some things.
Sara Taylor, the former White House political director, has agreed toanswer some questions as a “willing and cooperative private citizen,â€during testimony about the United States attorney firings last yearwhen she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee later today.
But, as a former presidential adviser, she will also honor thepresident’s invocation of executive privilege to keep quiet
Now that I’m in DC, I’m thinking maybe I’ll just stay here until the impeachment. Because things are getting fun. As in, no more taxpayer dollars to help Cheney shred our Constitution.
Senate Democrats movedTuesday to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney’s office in acontinuing battle over whether he must comply with national securitydisclosure rules.
A Senateappropriations panel chaired by Sen.
So says Pete Domenici, when asked by Andrea Mitchell whether he would testify before Congress if asked. ThinkProgress points out that a conversation between Rove and Domenici closely preceded David Iglesias’ firing. But I’ll go further, and raise this report.
In the spring of 2006, Domenici told Gonzales he wanted Iglesias out.
Gonzales refused.
As I’ve explained before, I used to consult for a big automotive company, working primarily in Asia (the job got moved to Asia earlier this year). I flew several times a year to Asia. So for the past several years, I’ve been an “Elite Level” flyer for Northwest. Which means I get bumped up to First Class pretty consistently.
Back in February, during my first trip home from the Libby trial, I
I’ve got just a few minutes before I’ve got to pack up for DC. But I wanted to point out a curious detail about the WaPo’s story on NSLs: the centrality of PFIAB in it. The story, of course, reveals that Gonzales received reports of violations of National Security Letter procedures, and then went into Congress and said there had been no problems with the program.
HJC has announced the list of witnesses for Wednesday’s hearing on Libby’s get-out-of-jail-free. They are:Joe Wilson: You guys know him, I think. I suspect he’ll talk about how Bush and Cheney are involved in this case.Roger Adams, US DOJ Pardon Attorney. He’ll end up talking about the normal process for commutation.
Credit where it’s due. Tom Maguire hits all the right notes about this Novak book excerpt, save one. He notes that Novak’s story has a way of changing with the seasons.
Interesting. This old post has the Novak version before he was willing to name Armitage; here is Novak (post-“Hubris”) rebutting Armitage’s version.
There are subtle shifts in the story – now we are told that “Hementioned her first name, Valerie”,
Fitzgerald’s filing in response to Judge Walton’s request for clarification on Libby’s magical disappearing prison sentence has the feel of bitter duty. Much of it is an attempt to stave off any attempt by Libby’s lawyers to disappear even the supervised release.
As discussed more fully below, it is the government’s position that the supervised release term remains operative, and that, by effect of the commutation, the supervised release term began on