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
The Powell Endorsement
/168 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelAs reported, Colin Powell just endorsed Obama, calling him a “transformational figure.” He listed several reasons for his choice:Obama’s response to the economic meltdownObama’s ability to reach all classes, races, and parties Obama’s rhetorical ability and his substanceMcCain’s erratic response to the economic crisisPalin’s lack of preparedness for the PresidencyMcCain’s smearsThe wingnuttia of the Republican PartySCOTUS (he’s probably thinking about all the anti-torture decisions)The attacks on Muslims (he mentions a Muslim
Trash Talk – All You Kneed To Know About Tom
/114 Comments/in emptywheel, Football, Trash Talk/by emptywheelIn all the hubbub over the election, debates, McCain inciting racial strife and, of course, our economy continuing to fall off the face of the earth, the usually astute american public consciousness has lost track of a critically important story they usually would be all over. Tom Brady has undergone yet another knee operation.
Another 16 Words: Boumediene Bites Bush Again
/60 Comments/in Bush Administration, Gitmo Show Trials, Law, Terrorism, Torture, Unitary Executive, War/by emptywheelLaura Rozen rocks, and today she rolls up more jaw dropping malevolence and fraud on the part of the Bush/Cheney Administration. A potentially explosive new court filing by the lawyers for Lakhdar Boumediene and five other Guantanamo detainees suggests that the Bush administration ordered the Bosnian government to arrest and hold the men after an exhaustive Bosnian investigation had found them innocent of any terrorism related activity and had ordered their release, in order to use them as props in Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union speech.