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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
Mayor Mike: NYPD Can Handle the 9/11 Trial
/32 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials/by emptywheelMike Bloomberg’s as confident as Jerry Nadler that NY can manage a trial of the alleged 9/11 plotters: I support the Obama Administration’s decision to prosecute 9/11 terrorists here in New York. It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center site where so many New Yorkers were murdered. We have […]
Nadler Responds to the Fear-Mongerers on NYC Trials
/8 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials/by emptywheelThere are a lot of Dems–particularly from NY–telling fearful Republicans that we can try the 9/11 murderers at the scene of the crime. Among those is Jerry Nadler: I thank the Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder for their diligent efforts to bring to justice those who have committed acts of terrorism against […]
Defense Lawyer Comments on Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Rahim al-Nashiri
/5 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials/by emptywheelACLU just had a conference call on today’s Gitmo announcement with, among others, Razmi bin al-Shibh’s civilian defense attorney, Tom Durkin, and Rahim al-Nashiri’s defense attorney, Nancy Hollander. Both had important details about their clients’ defense. I asked Durkin about the status of al-Shibh’s competency hearings. Since the government has been trying to refuse defense […]
The 9/11 Trials: The Torture Question
/29 Comments/in Torture/by emptywheelMichael Isikoff asked one of the key questions about the conduct of KSM’s trial in a civilian court: whether or not he would be able to enter evidence of his torture into the trial. Holder basically answered–though he didn’t say it explicitly–that the charges and the prosecutions evidence will be designed such that the evidence […]
Holder’s Press Conference on Gitmo
/5 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials/by emptywheelStarts by highlighting 9/11: “Just over eight years ago, … deadliest terror attacks we’ve ever seen.” Then brings up USS Cole. Today we announce a step forward in bringing those responsible for 9/11 attacks and Cole. KSM, bin Attash, bin al-Shib, Ali, Hawsawi. Those prceedings stayed since Feb. Case against alleged mastermind withdrawn in Feb. […]