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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.
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Okay, Lamont Didn’t Crash the Servers. But What Did Lieberman Do with His $387,000 Slush Fund?
/114 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThe Stanford Advocate reported today something we’ve known for years: Lieberman campaign incompetence–and not any malfeasance from the Lamont campaign–was the cause of Lierberman’s website crash on primary day in 2006. But that doesn’t close the legal questions behind the primary. We still have heard nothing about the FEC complaint Lamont’s campaign filed in response to Lieberman’s $367,000 petty cash fund.