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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
The Guy Who Refused to Wiretap Illegally Is Off to Jail
/66 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThe full 10th Circuit just decided to send Joseph Nacchio off to jail after reinstating his insider trading conviction.
A federal appeals court reinstated the insider trading conviction of former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio on Wednesday and said he could be ordered to begin serving a 6-year prison sentence.
A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S.
Kirk Lippold, Gitmo Architect, Still Making Torture Cool
/28 Comments/in Press and Media, Torture/by emptywheelKirk Lippold, one of the architects of Gitmo, is back, complaining that Obama has let a Gitmo detainee free. But, surprise surprise, in their quotations of Lippold, the press ignores Lippold’s significant ties to Gitmo policy, instead simply referring to him as the USS Cole Commander.
The AIPAC Prosecution Suffers A Crippling Blow
/136 Comments/in Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Intelligence, Law, Terrorism/by emptywheelMost of you know about the AIPAC criminal case that has been simmering below the main media radar since it was filed in May, 2005. In a nutshell, the indictment alleges that Lawrence Franklin a DOD/Pentagon official working in Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s office (with everyone’s favorite public servants Doug Feith and Paul Wolfowitz) passed top-secret information to Steve Rosen, AIPAC’s then-policy director, and Keith Weissman, a senior Iran analyst with AIPAC. An important ruling in the case was handed down On February 17 that is a crippling blow to the prosecution.