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.
I’ve been meaning to put up a Friday trash talk for some time. I tried to convince bmaz to do it. But ever since his man Brett Fav-ruh said no to the Vikes, bmaz has been pouting. And while I hope that Fav-ruh un-retires around mid-season, so bmaz will get out of his funk, on the off-chance that the Kitties are on a resurgance this year, I’m happy that Fav-ruh declined
Dana Milbank reveals what really doomed Mouthpiece Theater.
Dana Milbank says it was clear that “Mouthpiece Theater” wasn’t working even before the “Bitch Beer” brouhaha. “We were trying to squeeze it into our daily routines, writing and filming it while still keeping up our other responsibilities, in my case writing four columns a week and in [Chris] Cillizza’s case writing umpteen blog items a day …If anybody has an idea about a
You mean we had to bail out AIG because Hank Greenberg was making misrepresentations about the companies profits that enabled it to keep blowing up the bubble?
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged former American International Group Chairman and CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg and former Vice Chairman and CFO Howard Smith for their involvement in numerous improper accounting transactions that inflated AIG’s reported financial results between 2000 and 2005.
Lanny Breuer provided John Kiriakou, who responded to Dick Cheney’s inquiries at CIA about Joe Wilson, with at least $5000 of legal services. Doesn’t that mean he probably shouldn’t have been the guy at DOJ who submitted a declaration insisting on keeping Cheney’s interview with Patrick Fitzgerald secret?
Yesterday, I showed that the only “made in America” car (including engine and transmission) that would get someone trading in an Explorer the full $4500 Cash for Clunker benefit was a Ford Focus (though I shortchanged the Chevy Malibu and Saturn Aura, which are assembled in the US though may have an engine or transmission made in Canada or the US).
The point being that manufacturers don’t make many efficient cars in