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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
Did MI’s April 19 District Conventions Just Become a Clusterf^#k Too?
/129 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelThings go bad to worse in the world of MI’s Clusterfuck. It now looks like the only way to assign MI’s uncommitted delegates to Obama is to re-do the Conventions. You know–the ones where a bunch of activists beat out candidates hand-selected by the party to be delegates to the Convention.
Will McCain Turn Over Requested Documents to the Renzi Prosecutors?
/10 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelNot only did the FBI interview some of McCain’s staffers on the land deal that got Rick Renzi indicted, as of last month, McCain had not turned over some of the documents they were looking for. Since McCain has a history of involvement in this kind of land swaps for friends, don’t you think he ought to be more forthcoming?
The CIA OIG Made Five Criminal Referrals During Its Investigation of CIA Interrogation Techniques
/74 Comments/in Torture Tape/by emptywheelOver the course of the 17-month long CIA OIG investigation into interrogation techniques, it made five referrals to DOJ’s Criminal Division. That sure suggests that when the CIA destroyed evidence the CIA OIG had reviewed over the course of their investigation, they had reason to believe that evidence was evidence of a federal crime.