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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
Is This Why Rosenberg Recused?
/38 Comments/in Law, Torture Tape/by emptywheelThe AP reveals that prosecutors in the Alexandria US Attorney’s Office–including the lead prosecutor in the Moussaoui case–did know of the torture tapes in early 2006, before Moussaoui was sentenced.
The lead prosecutor in the terror case against Zacarias Moussaoui may have known the CIA destroyed tapes of its interrogations of an al-Qaida suspect more than a year before the government acknowledged it to the court, newly unsealed documents indicate.
The documents, which
Feingold Slaps Down Bond’s, Mukasey’s, and McConnell’s “Tired Accusations”
/50 Comments/in FISA, Intelligence/by emptywheelSenator Feingold noticed the same thing I noticed today: Republican opponents of his amendments are mischaracterizing his amendments.
[Bond] referred to our concerns that somehow the rights and privacy could be affected by this bill as “tired accusations.” I object to that characterization. I think that this is clearly the kind of thing we should be worried about and debating, but I’ll tell you what is a “tired accusation”–the notion that somehow
McConnell and Mukasey Tell Half Truths
/19 Comments/in FISA, Intelligence/by emptywheelOne benefit of the process the Senate is using to develop a FISA bill is that, by rejecting the SJC bill then considering amendment after amendment that had been part of the SJC bill, we begin to learn what the government really plans to do with its wiretapping program, as distinct from what it has said it was doing.
Recall.