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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
Clean on OpSec: Pete Hegseth Spilled Specific Details of an Attack in Advance
/117 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThe desperate panic to deny the gravity of this situation, however, is a real testament to the contempt in which the White House holds the men and women whose lives were put at risk — may still be at risk — because their Defense Secretary is so incompetent he can’t bother with the least little OpSec.
Kristi Noem Invokes State Secrets to Cover-Up Her Inability to ID Women as Women
/63 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelKristi Noem is trying to cover up a lot of embarrassing details with her invocation of State Secrets in the Alien Enemies Act deportation case. But among the most embarrassing for a transphobe like her is that she misidentified the sex of nine of the detainees, sending women when Nayib Bukele would only accept men.