User Profile for Marcy Wheeler (mwheeler)

Bio: Marcy Wheeler blogs as “emptywheel” at FireDogLake.com. She is best known for her book, Anatomy of Deceit, which served as a primer of the CIA Leak case, and her live-blogging of the Scooter Libby trial. More recently, she has covered efforts to hold the Bush Administration accountable for its illegal warrantless wiretapping and torture programs. Wheeler has a PhD from University of Michigan and has spoken on blogging and politics at Amherst College, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, Duke Law School, and a prior Campaign for America’s Future annual conference. She was recently awarded the 2009 Hillman Prize for Blog Journalism.

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