Marcy Wheeler

Who is Marcy Wheeler?

Marcy Wheeler is an American independent journalist specializing in national security and civil liberties. Wheeler publishes on her own site, Emptywheel, established in July 2011, and was a senior policy analyst at First Look Media's The Intercept until her amicable resignation 16 May 2014. She makes occasional contributions to the commentary and analysis section of The Guardian, progressive news site Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, and Michigan Liberal. Between early December 2007 and July 2011 Wheeler published primarily on Jane Hamsher's FireDogLake and prior to that on The Next Hurrah.

During United States v. Libby, the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, along with other regular press-accredited contributors to FireDogLake, Wheeler reported on the testimony live from the courtroom. In her accounts of the Libby trial, she describes her entries as "not a transcript". Nevertheless, such bloggers' eye-witness accounts served as sources of reliable information about the trial for their readers.