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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
Get Them Elected!
/17 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election, Democrats/by emptywheelAs Rachel Maddow would say, Marcy has “talked me down”. I am resigned to the fact that senator Obama will not be coming to Arizona. Now, what I can do, and what you all can do as well, is work hard, donate, call, talk to neighbors – anything, everything, between now and the close of the polls on Tuesday to keep the progressive and Obama wave alive and rolling. The finish line is in sight; no time for coasting – peddle to the metal baby!
Obama Campaign’s Take: We’re Doing What We Need To
/38 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelI’m listening to an Obama campaign conference call on the state of the race. Some of the eye-popping details:
Sporadic and First-Time Voters Are Voting Early
I’ve been focusing on the early voting numbers, though the McCain team has questioned whether or not the high Democratic turnout really just amounts to voters who would have voted anyway coming out early.
No.
The Obama campaign is quite confident that at least one fifth of these early
Rahm-ors
/30 Comments/in Bingo/by emptywheelIt’s Called Justice
/64 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election, Gitmo Show Trials/by emptywheelNot only did Michael Mukasey, in his most reasonable act as AG, refuse to act on Bush’s request that he help Ohio Republicans prevent 200,000 voters from voting.
But now, the military judge in charge of Hamdan’s Show Trial has refused the Bush Administration’s request that the jury re-sentence Hamdan so he won’t be released on Bush’s watch.