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
David Frakt on Material Support Charges and Military Commissions
/95 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials/by emptywheelIn both my post wondering whether a trial in NYC makes a material support for terrorism charge more viable for the alleged 9/11 financiers, and in my post linking to Jonathan Hafetz’ post criticizing the “lawless” system of justice imposed for Gitmo detainees, pow wow has linked to Lt. Col. and Associate Professor David Frakt’s […]
Hasan and War Crimes and Congressional Briefings
/33 Comments/in War/by emptywheelAt first, I didn’t make too much over this report that Nidal Hasan may have gone on a killing spree because his requests that his patients be investigated for war crimes was denied. Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan sought to have some of his patients prosecuted for war crimes based on statements they […]
US Detention System “Essentially Lawless”
/45 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelJust in case you haven’t been following Balkinization since Marty Lederman went to work at DOJ, I wanted to link to this Jon Hafetz* post, which hits on a lot of the points that powwow and Mary raised in this thread yesterday. But at Guantánamo, the road to justice remains the road less traveled. Holder […]