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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
Ari Fleischer to Pimp BCS
/102 Comments/in Football/by emptywheelThere’s much that can be said about this… The college football Bowl Championship Series has hired Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary to President George W. Bush, to help improve its image. [snip] “Playoff advocates have had an easy ride where they have never been called on to explain exactly how they would create an […]
What’s Missing from the EFF Document Dump: Whitehouse’s Declassification Requests
/22 Comments/in FISA/by emptywheelThere’s something missing from the EFF document dump: Sheldon Whitehouse’s efforts to get language from four different OLC opinions authorizing Bush’s surveillance program declassified. Not only should some of those efforts be included in the document dump–but they provide keys for understanding the communications within the document dump.
Court Faults Army Corps In Katrina Levee Breaches
/62 Comments/in Domestic Policy, Environment, Law/by emptywheelLate last Wednesday, there was a blockbuster court ruling that got lost in the healthcare and oversight hearing onslaught. However, the decision by Eastern District of Louisiana Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. in the In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation case is a game changer with immense and far reaching ramifications.
How Dick Cheney Cowed Obama
/101 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelMary has already linked to this article on how and why Greg Craig got thrown out in comments. But I wanted to make sure everyone read it. The short version of the timeline it describes is: April 16: Obama releases the torture memos April 17: Greg Craig moves to release Uighurs in US April 20: […]
Trash Talk: Even Al Qaida Is Pimping The Cheesers Over Favre
/190 Comments/in Football/by emptywheelOh this is beautiful: It seems that the Brett Favre-Green Bay Packers saga is such a worldwide phenomenon that it’s being used by detainees in American military camps. According to a military official, detainees at a Wisconsin National Guard camp in Iraq are using Brett Favre as a manner of getting at the guard troops […]