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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
Either Todd Palin or Walt Monegan Didn’t Tell the Truth
/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelTwo details of this detailed NYT article on TrooperGate stick out to me (h/t lemondloulou). In this post I’ll look at how Walt Monegan’s testimony contradicts the First Dude’s. Here’s what First Dude had to say in his affidavit.
I was not aware of the Grimes report until July 2008, after Monegan left the government.
An New Kind of Intimidation
/in emptywheel/by emptywheelIt seems that the former partner of Mike DeWine (DeWine is co-Chair of the McCain team in OH) is asking for the voter registration cards of everyone in Greene County, OH, who voted during golden week:
Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer and representatives of County Prosecutor Stephen Haller have contacted the local Board of Elections asking for the voter registration cards of everyone who voted during the six-day window, which ended Monday.
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TrooperGate Tomorrow
/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelI wonder if the hate rallies will mind if Steve Branchflower concludes that Sarah Palin and her creepy sidekick “Dude” abused the public trust to pursue a personal agenda?
The Alaska Supreme Court today rejected an attempt by a group of six Republican legislators to shut down the Legislature’s investigation of Gov.
Meet the Bloggers: Pitchforks and Congressional Hearings
/in 2008 Presidential Election, War/by emptywheelI just finished taping tomorrow’s edition of Meet the Bloggers, which shows at 1PM ET. John Cusack was on to talk about the DVD release of his movie, War Inc. We talked some about Congressional hearings–both regarding war profiteering and regarding finance companies who use their bailout money to send executives on a boondoggle.
Vote-Caging by Division of Labor
/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelThe federal, state, and Macomb county GOP all claim they know nothing about the vote caging using foreclosure lists. Aside from the loopholes in their denials, they issue no denial on the fourth, unmentioned entity involved in alleged attempts at vote-caging: the McCain campaign, which until Saturday was shacking up at a foreclosure lawyer’s office.