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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
“It Was Ivins, With a Flask, 200 Miles from the Site of the Crime”
/in emptywheel/by emptywheelSo our crack DOJ wants us to believe that, by providing a lot of circumstantial evidence that places Bruce Ivins in the same room as a flask full of anthrax used in the attack, they’ve proven not only that Ivins was involved in the crime, but that he was the only one involved in the crime.
In other words, they haven’t solved this crime, but they want us to all go away
The Anthrax Prosecutor: The Daughter of the Defense Attorney for BushCo’s “Germ Boy”
/in Intelligence/by emptywheelThe most credible reason people have suggested for Ivins’ murders of five people was that he wanted the country to be more proactive about anthrax vaccines. But there’s someone else who was pushing that issue much harder than Ivins. And, astoundingly, the daughter of that person’s defense attorney is one of the prosecutors working this case. That person? Scooter Libby.
DOJ Wants to Have Its Culprit and Withhold Some Materials, Too
/in emptywheel/by emptywheelNews reports say something is going to happen today with the anthrax case. But it’s not sure what. NPR reports that DOJ is going to declared its case solved–even while it doesn’t close the case.
Officials close to the anthrax investigation have told NPR that the FBI will declare the case of the 2001 anthrax letters solved Wednesday, but that the case will remain open so agents can follow up on some