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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
The Rule of Law Prevailed
/152 Comments/in Law/by emptywheelI’m just getting off a conference call with the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the organizations that has been pushing for Habeas at Gitmo for years. Gita Gutierrez, one of the CCR lawyers that’s been fighting this fight the longest, said of the ruling that “unambiguously the rule of law prevailed.”
Here’s some of what they believe the opinion to mean:The 40 to 60 people who have already been determined
Happy Habeas Day
/91 Comments/in Law/by emptywheelApparently, Anthony Kennedy understands a few things about the Constitution that many seem to have forgotten.
The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.
Which means the detainees in Gitmo and elsewhere will have their day in a real court, not the Show Trials put together at Gitmo.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to
Scottie and Condi and the Niger Intelligence
/29 Comments/in CIA Leak Case/by emptywheelMy posts on Scottie McC’s book have, thus far, treated issues closely connected to the CIA Leak investigation (well, except for the post in which he calls cracking down on deadbeat dads “trivial”).
In this post, I want to look at how he deals with the underlying issue–the Niger intelligence and the White House’s response to it.