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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
International Republican Institute Endorses Accuracy of Exit Polls
/38 Comments/in Elections--Historical/by emptywheelCongratulations Presidents Kerry and Gore, the State Department’s International Republican Institute has just belatedly declared you both President. Or perhaps not. Perhaps the IRI has not released its exit poll from the Kenyan election precisely because doing so would suggest exit polls are an accurate measure of election fraud–and all that might imply for recent US electoral politics.
John Solomon’s Phone Records
/8 Comments/in Intelligence, Press and Media/by emptywheelDrudge reports that John Solomon is taking his oppo-research based reporting to the Washington Times to serve as Executive Editor. That makes me wonder, once again, about what kind of campaign the Bush Administration was preparing against Solomon after they secretly subpoenaed five days of Solomon’s phone records.
Clusterfuck Eve
/48 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelI can tell you, it’ll sure be hard to sleep tonight as I ponder the possibilities of tomorrow’s MI Clusterfuck Primary. Polls show that Romney might just pull this out–and surprisingly, at least one of those polls says he’ll do so with Republican support. Me, I’m just looking forward to Wednesday, when Joe Lieberman and John McCain will stop spamming me with robocalls and junk mail.
Trash Talk Too
/328 Comments/in Football/by emptywheelDang you guys trash talked a bunch while I was waiting for the Pats to catch up!!!
In the interest in keeping the threads under 500 comments, I’m going to do another trash talk thread–so we can all channel good thoughts about the Bolts beating the Colts.
Predictions are (tell me how I’ve screwed this up in the comments):
Journalists Name Former DC USA as Hatfill Leaker
/23 Comments/in Law, Terrorism/by emptywheelSome of the journalists who reported Steven Hatfill as a “person of interest” in the anthrax investigation have revealed their sources. Thing is–I think this might actually make this case more interesting, because I’m not sure knowing the journalists’ sources helps make Hatfill’s case.