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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
Fitzgerald’s Successful Argument to Keep the Bush and Cheney Reports Out of Discovery
/16 Comments/in CIA Leak Case/by emptywheelBack in the discovery period leading up to Scooter Libby’s trial, Ted Wells made a valiant attempt–based on Fitzgerald’s notice that he was going to include reference to the insta-declassification of the NIE–to get Bush and Cheney’s interview reports in discovery.
But Fitzgerald refused, arguing those reports were Jencks material (meaning he’d only have to turn it over to the defense if he put Bush or Cheney on the stand in the
Those Democratic Committee Chairs Aren’t COORDINATING, Are They?
/35 Comments/in CIA Leak Case/by emptywheelI wonder whether DOJ told Waxman something in their refusal to respond to his subpoena that made him believe another Committee–say, HJC, investigating whether the President commuted Libby’s sentence to protect his own ass–might have a better chance at getting the FBI reports from the Bush and Cheney interviews?
The Obama & Olbermann Master Plan For Criminal FISA Prosecutions
/66 Comments/in Bush Administration, emptywheel, FISA, Law/by emptywheelOkay, the words “Master Plan” in the title are a joke. So is the idea of criminal prosecutions, by a future Obama Administration, for Bush era FISA violations that has been hawked, to the point of near belligerence, by Keith Olbermann both on his show and in a running flame war with Glen Greenwald. Here is why.