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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
When Did Adrian Lamo Start Working with Federal Investigators?
/54 Comments/in WikiLeaks/by emptywheelThe first suspicious moment in the chats between Adrian Lamo and Bradley Manning occurred at 12:54 on May 22–ostensibly the second day of chat communication between them (though Manning had sent Lamo encrypted emails for an unspecified period of time before that point). The BoingBoing version of the logs shows that Manning had just referenced […]
Is James Clapper’s Ignorance a Bug? Or a Feature?
/14 Comments/in Terrorism/by emptywheelDirector of National Intelligence James Clapper has been getting beat up because he got embarrassed by Diane Sawyer when he admitted he had no clue about a 12-person counterterrorism arrest in the UK earlier the day of the interview. In an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, taped Monday afternoon, Clapper was asked about the arrests, […]
Merry Christmas
/22 Comments/in Culture/by emptywheelI was going to post on boring depressing things. But instead I’m kibbitzing as my cousins play Fable 3. They suggested I post this YouTube instead. Maybe I’ll get around to those boring depressing posts after Santa comes. In the meantime, Merry Christmas to you all! Thanks for being such an integral part of this […]
If We’re Eliminating Symbols Used for Recruitment, Why Not Drones?
/26 Comments/in Drones, Gitmo Show Trials/by emptywheelHere’s what Obama said in response to a question of whether and why he was going to close Gitmo. Q But it makes me wonder where you are, sir, at about the two-year mark on Guantanamo, when closing it was one of your initial priorities, sir? THE PRESIDENT: Obviously, we haven’t gotten it closed. And […]
UN Describes “the Right of Every Person to … Know What Governments Are Doing on Their Behalf”
/19 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThe UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression issued a statement Wednesday laying out several principles parties should keep in mind in regards to WikiLeaks. It balances the importance of journalists’ self-regulation […]
Obama’s EO on Indefinite Detention: Wanting Bud McKeon’s Cake and Eating It Too
/49 Comments/in Indefinite Detention, Unitary Executive/by emptywheel[Update, 12/7/11: I find I’m still linking back to this post, and cringing everytime I see I got McKeon’s name, Buck, wrong. Apologies.] I plan to do some more reading on Obama’s proposed Executive Order on Indefinite Detention (not least, once an EO becomes public). But here are some preliminary thoughts after having read Adam […]