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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
Obama Replied
/442 Comments/in FISA/by emptywheelScott McClellan Testimony: Rove Is a Liar and Cheney an Oil-Hungry War-Monger
/30 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelI confess to being underwhelmed with the work HJC did with Scott McClellan’s appearance before HJC today. I’ll do a post later (once I’ve recovered from a terrible day for Democracy) on what I think was missed. But I’ll start with the positive–what I consider the highlights of the hearing.
Conyers started the hearing right, IMO, by introducing the meat-grinder note, showing that as Cheney was pressuring Bush to have Libby exonerated,
The FISA Bill
/215 Comments/in FISA/by emptywheelThe FISA Shaft Is Underway
/122 Comments/in Bingo, Democrats, FISA, Intelligence, Law/by emptywheelSteny’s Discharge
/34 Comments/in FISA/by emptywheelSteny Hoyer wants you to believe he’s having a discharge problem.
But he’s not.
Which is kind of weird, don’t you think? That Steny would try to excuse his own cowardly actions because of someone’s–or someone’s lack of?–discharge, when, as sympathetic as you might be to Steny about his discharge problem, you know it’s just an embarrassed excuse.