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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
Judge Sullivan Rejects DOJ’s Expansive Claims to Protect Cheney Interview
/11 Comments/in CIA Leak Case/by emptywheelJudge Sullivan has rejected DOJ’s most expansive claims they used to try to protect Dick Cheney’s CIA Leak case interview.
I am reading this now for more detail, but the key graph is this one.
For the reasons stated above, the Court concludes that the agency has met its burden of demonstrating that certain limited information was appropriately withheld from disclosure to protect the well-recognized deliberative process and presidential communications privileges under Exemption
DiFi: Zazi Investigation Biggest Since 9/11
/8 Comments/in FISA, Terrorism/by emptywheelI’m watching the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the PATRIOT Reauthorization. DiFi and Pat Leahy apparently revamped the bill last night.
She started by saying that the ongoing investigation into Najibullah Zazi is the biggest domestic terror investigation since 9/11.
An interesting claim…
Jay Rock Demands 90%
/67 Comments/in Health Policy/by emptywheelThis is delectible politics. Fresh off a meeting with Ob-Rahma, Jay Rock has come back to the Senate and demanded 90% loss ratio for any coverage the subsidies pay for. That means the insurance companies can’t steal 20% of our tax dollars to pay for executive salaries. They get 10%.
They’re peeing their pants right now.
Thing is, this amendment will never ever pass.