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About emptywheel
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.
Entries by emptywheel
Why Was the White House Searching for Plame-Wilson-Novak Emails Dated May 1, 2003?
/17 Comments/in CIA Leak Case/by emptywheelWilliam Ockham made a really important discovery. One of the files turned over to CREW has search files from September 2004 relating to the Plame investigation. Look at pages 44-46 for Rove and Cooper searches and page 49 for Plame Wilson Novak searches.
Of particular interest, here are the days on which they were apparently searching for Plame Wilson Novak emails dated:
May 1, 2003
May 9, 2003
May 16, 2003
May 27, 2003
June 2, 2003
June
Meddling
/85 Comments/in Foreign Policy, War/by emptywheelTrash Talk – The Hitched and The (Potentially) Unhitched Edition
/25 Comments/in Trash Talk/by emptywheelFirst off, we’re gonna be moving a little fast here, because it is a classic Circus weekend; the lads are in Silverstone this weekend for the British Grand Prix. I’ll return to that in a minute, but there is also the issue of the continued existence of F1. There is a potential divorce in the making. There is also a beautiful wedding.
Ensign’s Senate Colleagues Confronted Him about His Affair in February 2008
/93 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThe Las Vegas Sun has posted the letter John Ensign’s cuckold, Doug Hampton, sent them not long before Ensign admitted his affair. In it, he reveals there was a confrontation over the affair in February 2008 that Tom Coburn attended.
The unethical behavior and immoral choice of Senator Ensign has been confronted by me and others on a number of occasions over this past year.