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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
Whiskey Pete Hegseth Finally Finds Some White Men to Purge
/40 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelAs the leak investigation Pete Hegseth ordered starts to bear fruit, remember that he set himself up to gatekeep what happens with the results of that investigation, an investigation that has already focused on a guy Jeff Goldberg witnessed Hegseth adding to a Signal chat on which Hegseth released battle information.