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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
DOJ Rethinks — but in a Few Areas, Expands — Access to Media Content
/6 Comments/in emptywheel, FISA, Leak Investigations, WikiLeaks/by emptywheelThe revised guidelines for using legal process for journalists rolled out by Merrick Garland yesterday affirmatively protect reporting on classified information in the definition of newsgathering. They close a number of surveillance loopholes used in recent years. But in other ways, the guidelines define journalism by what it’s not, excluding a number of crimes of interest in recent years.
Kash Patel’s Immunized Testimony Is about Premeditation, Not (Just) about Declassification
/85 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelKash Patel is not primarily a witness about whether Trump declassified the documents he stole. He’s a witness about whether Trump had a premeditated plan to steal classified documents and disseminate them to people not entitled to have them. And that’s why the serial reports about DOJ seeking to immunize Kash’s testimony are interesting.