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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
Republicans Are Really Good at Clearing Brush
/18 Comments/in Obama Administration/by emptywheelIf you follow me on twitter, you know that I’ve been anticipating the Republican attack on the Obama vacation by pointing out what Bush was doing 8 years ago (ignoring the PDB) or Cheney was doing 7 (claiming Iraq was close to having nukes). So I want to give Andrea Mitchell kudos for–as I hoped reporters would do yesterday–calling out this bogus attack.
Marc Ambinder’s Cave
/62 Comments/in Press and Media/by emptywheelI was going to leave well enough alone–to take Marc Ambinder’s limited apology for labeling DFHs who believed the threat level system to be politicized as “gut haters,” accept that he is at least thinking about these things, and move on. But given Ambinder’s follow-up, I’d like to use it to make a point of Village journalism methods.
But there are a couple of passages from his post that really embody the things that–as I said before-make his take on the threat levels an excellent example of what I