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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
House Judiciary Committee to Propose PATRIOT and FISA Reforms
/38 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelJohn Conyers, Jerry Nadler, and Bobby Scott just introduced bills that will provide needed reforms to PATRIOT and FISA while reauthorizing most of the sunsetting authorities this year. From the Committee press release, the PATRIOT bill does the following. Title I: Patriot Act Related Amendments Roving Wiretaps • Clarifies roving wiretap laws in order to […]
CNN Helps Mike Hayden Uncork A Fine Whine
/59 Comments/in Intelligence, Law, Obama Administration, Torture/by emptywheelMichael Hayden is at it again. This time it is CNN that has donated the bandwidth to his continued petty whining about the release of the OLC Torture Memos. After acknowledging that the matter is over and now simply a matter of history, Hayden, in a “Special to CNN Comment” bearing today’s date, says: I […]
Treachery At The Red Rocks Sweat Lodge
/88 Comments/in Culture, Law/by emptywheelYou may have seen the story of the deaths at an Arizona retreat sweat lodge in the news over the last week. It is not necessarily our normal fare, but I am oddly captivated by it on several levels. A self help, wealth and awareness “guru” by the name of James Arthur Ray, who runs […]