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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
Sanchez v. Mukasey on “Executive Privilege”
/in emptywheel/by emptywheelI wanted to look closely at the exchange between Congresswoman Sanchez and Attorney General Mukasey to see if it gets us any closer to determining whether DOJ reviewed Bush’s invocation of absolute immunity for Rove–and specifically whether he bought off on the claim that the matters in question pertained to Rove’s “official duties.” I can’t tell. But I can tell you that Mukasey schooled Sanchez in the exchange.
A Timeline of Lamar Smith’s Pathetic Attempt to Save Karl Rove
/in Timeline, USA Purge/by emptywheelFunny. Lamar Smith’s attempt to save Karl Rove’s ass was not an attempt to gather information for the Subcommittee. Rather, it appears to have been an attempt to be able to say to Attorney General Muaksey that Rove had been nice and compliant, just in time for Mukasey’s appearance before the Committee today.