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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
John Yoo v. Alice Fisher and Michael Chertoff
/26 Comments/in Law, Torture, Unitary Executive/by emptywheelThe Yoo Torture Memo claims that OLC had consulted with the Criminal Division about which statutes would not be applied to the military during the conduct of war:
The Criminal Division concurs in our conclusion that these canons of construction preclude the application of the assault, maiming, interstate stalking, and torture statutes to the military during the conduct of a war.
Did Condi Speak with Bush about Rove’s So-Called Innocence? Or about the NIE?
/132 Comments/in CIA Leak Case/by emptywheelAlong with the transcripts of Bush and Cheney’s interviews with Fitzgerald, Waxman is asking for the unredacted interview transcripts of a bunch of people who had conversations with Bush and/or Cheney about the leak. Most of them are people whose conversations with the President and Vice President wealready knew about. The exception is Condi. What kind of conversation did Condi have with Bush and Cheney about the leak?