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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
Is THIS Why Congress Folded on FISA?!?!?
/in FISA/by emptywheelThe DOJ IG will report tomorrow that Alberto Gonzales was wandering around DC with notes from the Administration/Gang of Eight meeting that took place on March 10, 2004, in which a majority of that Gang bought off on continuing the warrantless wiretap program even though James Comey had found legal problems with the program.