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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
Eric Holder Demagogues Hate Crimes
/117 Comments/in Law, Obama Administration/by emptywheelEric Holder can’t seem to do squat for transparency, privacy, accountability or a plethora of other ills carried over from the Bush/Cheney Administration, but he is concerned that we need more hate crimes laws. This is wrong and he should be paying attention to more important goals.
Al-Nashiri’s Swollen Nerves, the CIA’s Apology to Abu Zubaydah
/80 Comments/in Torture/by emptywheelAs MadDog pointed out, the latest redactions of the CSRT transcripts are up at ACLU.
Transcript of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad’s CSRT (27 page PDF).
Transcript of Al Nashiri’s CSRT (39 page PDF).
Transcript of Abu Zubaydah’s CSRT (30 page PDF)
Transcript of Majid Khan’s CSRT (50 page PDF)
I say “latest redactions” because they really haven’t declassified that much–just single lines here and there.
The biggest piece of news, IMO, is Rahim al-Nashiri’s