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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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/in Foreign Policy, War/by emptywheelCIPA Fun
/in emptywheel/by emptywheelJeff has kindly sent over Judge Walton’s November 15 CIPA ruling (4MB), which was declassified and released Friday. This is the ruling the one that Fitzgerald is appealing.
Walton lays out his ruling carefully. There are two kinds of information at issue: (a) information supporting Libby’s argument that he is so important that he can’t be expected to remember the details of the covert spy’s lives he has ruined, and (b) information