Author Archive for: emptywheel
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.
Entries by emptywheel
Donald Trump, Alone in the Room with His KGB Handler, Getting His Ass Served on a Picnic Platter
/46 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelIn 2018 in Helsinki, when Vladimir Putin utterly humiliated Trump publicly, Trump still had competent Russian advisors to advise him. Today, after years of chasing a manufactured grievance against the Deep State, Trump walks into a solo meeting with his KGB handler having rid himself of any competent advisor.
Kash Patel Continues to Cover Up His Role in the HPSCI Investigations
/5 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThe latest document dumps Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel have released to distract from Trump’s capitulation to Russia do the opposite of what they claim — including exonerating Adam Schiff in the claimed leaks right wingers are squealing about. They do, however, show that Kash Patel’s declassification of key documents ended the investigations in question.