Author Archive for: emptywheel
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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Did You Notice What Waas Didn't Say?
May 25, 2006 in Press and Media /by emptywheelAnd So It's Willful Blindness
May 25, 2006 in emptywheel /by emptywheelLibby Forgets Dick
May 25, 2006 in Press and Media /by emptywheelWhy Settle the Wen Ho Lee Case?
May 24, 2006 in Press and Media /by emptywheelApparently, Wen Ho Lee’s civil suit charging the government abused his privacy rights is close to being settled.
Intensive settlement negotiations between former nuclear scientistWen Ho Lee and the U.S. government are delaying — and may ultimatelyavert — action by the Supreme Court on appeals by reporters fightingto protect their confidential sources in the case.
The Lee caseis viewed by the media as one of the most significant press-freedombattles of recent years.
Anatomy of a White House Smear, 3.1
May 23, 2006 in Press and Media /by emptywheelWired Calls Abu Gonzales' Bluff
May 22, 2006 in Domestic Policy /by emptywheelPropaganda Timing
May 22, 2006 in Bush Administration, War /by emptywheelRichard Armitage and the Niger Forgeries
May 21, 2006 in Press and Media /by emptywheelReading Novak
May 20, 2006 in Press and Media /by emptywheelFooter column 1
