Will We Finally See the John Kerry Who Investigated BCCI Again?
John Kerry has hired the guy who claims that Kerry went easy on the BCCI investigation. Does this signal a return to Kerry’s more courageous stance of his youth?
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 Kerry has hired the guy who claims that Kerry went easy on the BCCI investigation. Does this signal a return to Kerry’s more courageous stance of his youth?
Judd Gregg cites irreconcilable differences as his explanation for withdrawing from the Commerce position.
But do you think maybe he just realized that his reputation wasn’t going to withstand the scrutiny of Senate appointment?
Like her fellow Republican (and now famed Twit-leaker) Pete Hoekstra, Susan Collins doesn’t want our nation’s intelligence professionals to be able to report fraud and wrong-doing.
Why do Republicans work so hard to protect fraud and wrong-doing?
People in PA generally approve of the job that Arlen “Scottish Haggis” Specter is doing. But they don’t exactly want him to keep doing it–particularly not the Independents his mushy centrism is supposed to attract.
Immediately below, Marcy described Judge Vaughn Walker’s new homework assignment to the parties in the consolidated litigation in NDCA. In this post, I want to delve into the legal underpinnings of Walker’s Order, and where he is going with it.
Vaughn Walker wants more homework from Eric Holder on retroactive immunity. And he’s demanding that Holder do his own work this time.
Nora Dannehy’s grand jury just subpoenaed Pete Domenici.
The protectors of the Constitution in the Senate also introduced a State Secrets Bill today.
A number of Congressmen have submitted the State Secret Protection Act, modeled on CIPA, in an attempt to rein in the use of State Secrets to avoid criminal prosecution.
The Peanut CEO’s response to being invited to eat his own toxic product was invoking his Fifth Amendment Rights. But the bank CEOs? No one has yet asked them to eat their own toxic products.