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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
Apparently McCain Will Not Be on the Ballot in November
/195 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelThat’s all I can surmise from Terry McAuliffe’s boast that Hillary “won” Michigan.
Goddamned I wonder if these people give a damn how aggravating such statements are to people in MI whose Hillary-supporting Governor and other top leaders played chicken with the DNC and lost … our vote.
Condi’s Pissing Contest with Moqtada al-Sadr
/131 Comments/in War/by emptywheelBack when Dick Cheney snuck into Iraq to meet with Nuri al-Maliki, it was unclear whether Cheney’s visit related to Maliki’s subsequent, ill-fated offensive into Basra. I submit that we need have no doubts about what comes next. Condi has made it very clear she owns–we own–whatever atrocities are about to happen in Sadr City.
The Pentagon’s Media Analyst Domestic Psy-Ops Program: Is It Legal?
/77 Comments/in Bush Administration, Domestic Policy, emptywheel, Law, Press and Media, Unitary Executive/by emptywheelBy now you have probably heard that the New York Times has an in-depth piece by David Barstow out for Sunday’s edition on the use by the Pentagon of media “military experts” as propaganda conduits. Nearly everybody is discussing this story, but in addition to denouncing this disingenuous propaganda program we should also ask whether it it is legal under existing US law.