Marcy Wheeler

Marcy Wheeler
Marcy Wheeler at a fundraising event for the YearlyKos convention
Other names	emptywheel
Alma mater	Amherst College (B.A.), University of Michigan (Ph.D.)
Occupation	Independent journalist
Years active	2007-present
Notable work	Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy (2007)
Website	emptywheel.net

Marcy Wheeler (a.k.a. "emptywheel") 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 (FDL) 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. During the trial, she appeared on camera in video reports posted online on PoliticsTV.com, along with other accredited Libby trial blogger-correspondents such as TalkLeft creator Jeralyn Merritt and FDL creator Jane Hamsher and FDL principal blogger Christy Hardin Smith.

In October 2013, Newsweek published an article about Wheeler titled "The Woman Who Knows The NSA's Secrets."

Marcy Wheeler lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is married to an engineer. She campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean in 2004, and is a former vice chairwoman of the Washtenaw County Democratic Party.