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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
Evidence The US Bought The Megrahi Conviction
/55 Comments/in Foreign Policy, Law, Terrorism/by emptywheelThe case against convicted Lockerbie/Pan Am 103 bombing suspect Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi was always thin, at best. Now there is evidence of a concealed collusion of the Scottish Crown prosecution team and US authorities to effectively buy Shopkeeper Gauci’s testimony against Megrahi.
Big Game Trash
/90 Comments/in Football, Trash Talk/by emptywheelWith September out of the way, the rust is off the gridiron and we are getting into the heart of the football season. Heck, we even got a cold snap going here in the desert. Got down to 72 degrees last night, and the hight today will only be in the low 90s. Great weekend for football.
DiFi’s Invitation to a Fishing Expedition
/144 Comments/in PATRIOT, Terrorism/by emptywheelAs I noted last night, DiFi appears to have used the Najibullah Zazi investigation as justification to make the language surrounding Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act worse. Using that as cover, she is arguing that Congress must authorize the kind of investigative fishing expeditions she opposed four years ago.
Nino Scalia Reinvents The Wheel
/27 Comments/in Law/by emptywheelFrom the man conservatives and Federalist Society adherents routinely praise as an eloquent and transformational legal genius and gold standard for their idea of a Supreme Court Justice, comes this precious nugget courtesy of Ashby Jones at the WSJ Law Blog: Scalia wants lawyers to become auto workers.