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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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LaMonica McIver and Schrödinger’s Baraka
/33 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelIt is highly likely that Alina Habba’s Special Prosecutions AUSA only succeeded in getting an indictment targeting LaMonica McIver by keeping crucial details — such as who owns Delaney Hall or that McIver actually did inspect the facility, after she allegedly assaulted the guys who let her in to do that inspection — from the grand jury.