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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
Call on Dems to Vote for the Fourth Amendment over Fishing Expeditions
/8 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelAs I explained yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a classified briefing on the PATRIOT Act on Thursday. Classified Hearing on: the PATRIOT Act and Related Matters Thursday 10/29/2009 – 2:30 A.M. HVC-301 Full Committee By Direction of the Chairman Presumably, the Administration hopes to convince Committee members to forego attempts to improve the […]
What Did Dick Give Judy to Go Pro-Torture?
/55 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials, Torture/by emptywheelJudy Miller must think she’s smarter than Susan Crawford. Crawford, after all, while still convening authority for military commissions in Gitmo, admitted that Mohammed al-Qahtani had been tortured. And by that, she was referring to the treatment that started in November 2002, nine months after Gitmo opened; she was talking about conduct that was ultimately […]