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.
This is delectible politics. Fresh off a meeting with Ob-Rahma, Jay Rock has come back to the Senate and demanded 90% loss ratio for any coverage the subsidies pay for. That means the insurance companies can’t steal 20% of our tax dollars to pay for executive salaries. They get 10%.
They’re peeing their pants right now.
Thing is, this amendment will never ever pass.
As predicted, the Administration just settled the state secrets case that was really going to hurt their attempts to preserve the privilege.
George Stephanopoulos, clutching his pearls, wants to know why it was necessary for Alan Grayson to call out Republicans on the floor of the House for their stubborn defense of the status quo.Why Is This Necessary? I’ll tell him why.
One of the things Leahy’s PATRIOT reauthorization does is incorporate and/or undercut Feingold’s efforts supporting a more sweeping reform of domestic counterterrorism efforts.
I’ve been threatening to do this for a while: ditching the moniker “Jello Jay.” And while I was going to hold out until we actually got a public option through the Senate, I gotta say that nothing seems to have gotten under MaxTax Baucus’ skin so much as Jay Rock picking apart, detail by detail, the many ways in which the MaxTax is a big giveaway to the health care industry.
Is Obama still trying to figure out why his Administration turned into a leaky sieve overnight after picking Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff?
Russ Feingold says we need more information about how the PATRIOT Act actually works before we renew the PATRIOT Act.
Mark-up for the reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act will being on Thursday.
Chris Christie thinks I’m an exception to whom insurance companies should not be required to offer mammogram coverage.
Chuck Schumer is working to ensure that bloggers–or even free-lance journalists–will not count as journalists before the proposed medial shield law.