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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
Syriana
/76 Comments/in Foreign Policy, Intelligence, Science/by emptywheelIf there’s one thing I’ve learned over the course of this Administration, it’s that if Dana Perino one day announces that the sky is blue, I will be forced to assume that an alien invasion has commenced with the total ionization of Earth’s upper atmosphere.With that in mind, there’s an awful lot of cognitive dissonance for me in analyzing the evidence on the purported Syrian nuclear reactor site.
“It’s Not that Yoo Engaged in Really Bad Lawyering, Really It’s Not”
/50 Comments/in Law, Unitary Executive/by emptywheelDavid Rivkind and Lee Casey want you to believe that we’re all beating up John Yoo because we don’t agree with his interpretation of the proper role of international law. It’s a shiny object, of course, designed to distract the WSJ’s readers from the real reasons many are calling for Yoo to face consequences for his actions. My question is why they’re making such a case.
EW’s Famous Football Trash Talk* – What The Puck Edition
/49 Comments/in emptywheel, Football, Misc/by emptywheelAre you ready for some football? Hot damn, I am. And guess what, there really is football to talk about. And lots of other things too, but let’s start off with the gridiron. Trash talks are fairly infrequent these days, so go to town on any and all sports, and any other trashin you got on your mind.