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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
Scott Bessent Fact Checks Donald Trump’s Lies about Tariffs
/48 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelIn a declaration to SCOTUS, Scott Bessent confesses that what Trump has claimed were trade “deals” are really just “frameworks” that are not yet binding, and the investments and purchases cited in them are a fraction of the $15 trillion dollars in investment he has claimed they include.
Pete Hegseth Committed A(nother) Crime But We Can’t Throw Him in Prison
/64 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelWhile Charles Breyer’s opinion finding that DOD, on Pete Hegseth’s personal orders, violated the Posse Comitatus Act in its invasion of Los Angeles, the opinion will have more lasting import for the ways it shows that the existing approach to Executive Power makes it impossible to enforce such laws.