Author Archive for: emptywheel
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
Will We Learn of the “Many Dark Actors”?
/20 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelAnyone who has been following over the last eight years will not be surprised that Lord Goldsmith told Tony Blair that the Iraq War was illegal. On July 29, [2002, Lord Goldsmith] wrote to Mr Blair on a single side of A4 headed notepaper from his office.Friends say it was no easy thing for him […]
The Burrower and the Gate-Crashers
/58 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelI’m not much interested in the gate-crashing Salahis. But I am interested in two data-points that suggest Republicans are preparing to use the gate-crashing episode like they did the travel office attack under the Clintons. First, there’s this tweet from Karl Rove. Good question @rip120751. SS getting bad rap. Haven’t gotten to bottom of this, […]
War on Fox Commissions
/10 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials/by emptywheelI’ve been complaining of late that the LAT’s stupid Republican blogger, Andrew Malcom, is so bad that he must get tons of links making the LAT think he’s great for traffic. So I wanted to be sure to link to Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano’s good discussion of the problems with military commissions–so the LAT […]
The Irony of Tora Bora
/182 Comments/in Intelligence, War/by emptywheelUnderstand that–for better or worse–the new report released by John Kerry on how Osama bin Laden escaped at Tora Bora is a designed to be a political document. It offers the following “irony” to the chattering classes the weekend before Obama announces his new Afghanistan strategy, Ironically, one of the guiding principles of the Afghan […]
Trash Talk: I’m An Excellent Driver Edition
/261 Comments/in Football, Trash Talk/by emptywheelWell I woke up this morning and got myself a beer The future’s uncertain and the end is always near Let it roll, baby roll, let it roll all night long. These are strange days indeed we live in. One minute it is a quiet peaceful day after Thanksgiving, not even the sound of sugar […]