Marcy Wheeler

Obama Gets Pushed Out of His Comfort Zone -- and Pushes Back

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, War on Terror, Glenn Greenwald, Abu Zubaydah, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, Barack Obama, Quantico, Marcy Wheeler, P.J. Crowley Stepping Down, p.j. Crowley Bradley Manning, P.J. Crowley Resigns, P.J. Crowley, Politics News

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was forced to resign for his frank comments about the treatment of Bradley Manning. The question is, why would the administration do something so "ridiculous, counterproductive, and stupid"?

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The Government's Case Against Julian Assange Is Falling Apart

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Wired Magazine, Adrian Lamo, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, Marcy Wheeler, Jane Hamsher, World News

The more you shine sunlight on this matter, the more the case that Assange induced Pfc. Bradley Manning to provide WikiLeaks with classified information, or otherwise assisted in the procurement of same, falls apart.

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Hope We Can Belie In

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011

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The F Word: It's the Economy, Not the Bloggers

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Robert Gibbs, Politico, Economy, Bloggers, Jobs, Obama, Media, Joe Biden, Grit Tv, Nafta, Hippie Punching, The F Word, Unemployment, Laura Flanders, Rahm Emanuel, Bill Clinton, Glenn Greenwald, Rachel Maddow, Grittv, Susie Madrak, Marcy Wheeler, Richard Trumka, Tea Party, Politics News

Americans are angry with the Obama administration, and the Obama administration is angry with -- bloggers? The left-leaning media? What's wrong with this picture?

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Obama vs. The Left: A Battle of Ideologies, Not Cults of Personalities

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, Social Security, Big Data, Public Option, Glenn Greenwald, Liberal Bloggers, Obama, John Aravosis, LGTB Rights, Robert Gibbs, Health Care, Jane Hamsher, Peter Daou, Marcy Wheeler, Politics News

What Obama is facing, which other presidents have not, is moment-by-moment online documentation of the distance between his words and his actions by issue advocates on his own side.

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Latest CIA Interrogation Tapes Don't Tell the Whole Story

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Cia, Counterterrorism, Morocco, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, 9/11, Ramzi Binalshibh, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Department of Justice, Marcy Wheeler, Black Sites, War on Terror, John Durham, Secret Prisons, Torture, Politics News

Even if the newly released footage of Bin al shibh's interrogation in Morocco shows largely benign interrogations, we shouldn't forget that many of the videotapes that the CIA destroyed in 2005 documented serious abuse.

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Which Party Is the Peace Party?

Alan Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dave Obey, Barbara Lee, Steve Clemons, CongressmanwithGuts.Com, Martin Sheen, Oliver Stone, Peace Party, Bob Herbert, Digby, Alan Grayson, Jim McGovern, Robert Greenwald, Grayson, Marcy Wheeler, Politics News

For years, I prosecuted war profiteers in Iraq. I saw exactly what Gen. Butler meant when he said, "war is a racket." I'm not going to change my mind about these wars any time soon. But we have to change other people's minds.

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Ten Things That Did Not Suck About The Media In 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

It's New Year's Eve, that time of year when you toss aside your better instincts and succumb to America's need for Contemplative Listicles that Explai...

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Top 10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Health Care Bill

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Dayen, Marcy Wheeler, Jon Walker, Top 10 Reasons to Kill the Health Care Bill, Senate Bill, Firedoglake, Politics News

The Senate bill isn't a "starter home," it's a sink hole. It needs to die so something else can take its place. It doesn't matter whether people are on the right or the left.

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The Torture Report

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Glenn Greenwald, Freedom of Information Act, Department of Justice, President Bush, Maj. David Frakt, Marcy Wheeler, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Matthew Alexander, Politics News

Five years after Abu Ghraib, the Defense Department is still withholding photographs showing prisoners being abused at other facilities, as well as interrogation directives used by special forces.

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Why Did Health Insurance Stocks Go Up After The President's Speech?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Option, Health Reform, Private Health Insurance, Marcy Wheeler, Human, Barack Obama, Health Care Speech, Ezra Klein, Health Care Reform, Cigna, United, Aetna, Wellpoint, Politics News

The president singled out insurance companies for special criticism in his speech on Wednesday. So why did health insurance stock prices go up the next day?

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Bloggers Back Obama's Agenda, Not His Strategy (From Netroots Nation)

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Specter, Valerie Jarrett, Ari Melber, Public Option, Netroots Nation, Clinton Netroots Nation, Clinton Blog, Bill Clinton, Susie Madrak, Sestak, Marcy Wheeler, Grassley, Death Panel, Lane Hudson, Media News

Netroots Nation also drew a rather unlikely guest: Arlen Specter, the resilient, 79-year-old pol who has now managed to seriously rile the base of both political parties.

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Brennan Suggests He Played Role In Domestic Surveillance

The Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Counterterrorism Center, Bush Administration, Cia, Counterterrorism, Domestic Surveillance, Brennan, John Brennan, Surveillance, Terrorist Threat Integration Center, Marcy Wheeler, Politics News

I'll have a broader piece up soon about John Brennan's speech about counterterrorism, which in many ways represented a stark departure from several ke...

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Bush Sent Gonzales To The Hospital (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Metaphors, George W. Bush, Music, China, Video, Huma Abedin, Howard Wolfson, John Ashcroft, Anthony Weiner, Marcy Wheeler, Alberto Gonzales, Eat the Press, Politics News

Man, you turn Marcy Wheeler loose on an IG report, and her eye just seeks heat. Today, Wheeler's getting praise for catching this detail in the uncla...

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Marcy Wheeler: GOP Will Investigate Clinton's "Blow Job" But Not CIA

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Shuster, Marcy Wheeler Blow Job, Marcy Wheeler, Msnbc Blow Job, Marcy Wheeler Msnbc Blow Job, Video, Media News

Marcy Wheeler of FireDogLake, appeared on MSNBC Monday to argue for an investigation of secret C.I.A. operations under President Bush. But all of the ...

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CIA May Be Protecting Cheney With Blocked Report

The Plumline | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan War, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Washington Post, War on Terror, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, Cia, Iraq War, Dick Cheney, Enhanced Interrogations, Marcy Wheeler, Cia-Inspector-General-Report, Torture, Politics News

On Friday, there may be a major development in the torture wars: The CIA is set to release portions of a 2004 report that reportedly found no proof th...

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Online News is Not Arianna Huffington's Dastardly Plot to Destroy the Newspaper Industry And Other Reality-Based Observations

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swift Boaters, John Kerry, Sam Stein, Kaplan, Dana Milbank, Norman Oder, Washington Post, Atlantic Yards, Claire McCaskill, David Simon, Marcy Wheeler, Media News

John Kerry's Senate Committee hearing on the future of journalism evidently turned into a bunch of self-congratulatory wanking about how important newspapers are to our American way of life.

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