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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.
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The CIA’s Latest Vaughn Follies
/97 Comments/in Torture/by emptywheelThe CIA has released another Vaughn Index listing all the documents it refuses to hand over to the ACLU (link pending).
Some highlights are:
Other-3, June 17, 2004: This is an eight page document, including a routing slip, requesting continued legal and policy support for the CIA’s interrogation program.
This document must be a response to Jack Goldsmith’s June 10, 2004 letter to Scott Muller, stating that if he wanted the torture program