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.
Entries by emptywheel
Market Fun
/33 Comments/in Economics/by emptywheelMissing Emails: Addington’s Search Terms
/62 Comments/in CIA Leak Case/by emptywheelAmong the documents introduced at the trial was a draft version of the search that David Addington requested Keith Roberts of the Office of Administration to do on the emails on the OVP server. This is not a final version–it is what Addington sent to Agent Roos to get his approval before he submitted it to Roberts to do his search.
emptywheel’s Famous Football Trash Talk Thread* – Championship Sunday Edition
/307 Comments/in Football, Misc/by emptywheelChampionship Sunday brings conflicting emotions for me. It brings the very essence, the finest, that pro football has to offer; the two best teams in each conference duking it out for the right to go to the Super Bowl. It also means that, save for the commonly anti-climatic Super Bowl, the football season is over, and that leaves a hole in the sports, and emptywheel, world until next fall. Well, enough of that, we DO have one outstanding day of gridiron glory left, lets get to it.
Henry’s Dates: Medicare Part D
/51 Comments/in Health Policy/by emptywheelOne of the reasons it was so unwise for Tony Fratto to open his big fat mouth today regarding the White House habit of losing emails is because it offered Waxman an excuse to make previously unreleased information–the dates for which White House email archives don’t exist–publicly available. That allows us to discover neat coincidences, such as that all of OMB’s emails disappeared for the period leading up to Bush’s signing of the Medicare Part D bill.