Author Archive for: emptywheel
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
Anthrax, Again
/in emptywheel/by emptywheelHappy New Year!
/in Misc/by emptywheelGM, TARP and Traveling Down the Road
/55 Comments/in automobiles/by emptywheelOkay, a couple of folks have been pining for a post on GM and the TARP announcement yesterday. The story was when the decision was made to make GMAC a bank holding company, and that was over a week ago. Once that was made what was announced yesterday about the injection of TARP funds was a foregone conclusion.
Turnabout Would Be Fair Play: US Seeks 147 Year Torture Sentence
/15 Comments/in Bush Administration, emptywheel, Law, Torture/by emptywheelThis report from MSNBC is almost sublimely ironic: U.S. prosecutors want a Miami judge to sentence the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 147 years in prison for torturing people. Huh. Go figure. I wonder who will prosecute the denizens of the Bush Administration for the same acts?