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.
When Robert Mueller first told DOJ officials he wanted to subpoena Donald Trump, the then senior-most career official at DOJ asked for a memo justifying it. Then he left DOJ three days later.
Lefties are doing with the Iranian targeting of Trump what MAGAts have done with the Russian investigation: doubt that a hostile country would target the US by targeting a US presidential candidate.
The response Trump’s lawyers filed to Jack Smith’s request to file what they (rightly) call a mini Special Counsel report lays the groundwork for louder squealing as soon as anyone moves to unseal this.
Trump has used invented grievance to teach his followers to hate rule of law. To invent that grievance, Trump has created lie after lie, and built them together into a caricature of the Deep State.
Donald Trump’s campaign delayed calling the FBI about Iran’s hacking efforts because he refused to adhere to the standard he has demanded of Hillary Clinton for eight years.
The detention memo for Ryan Routh includes two mentions of sympathy for Iran and eleven different phones, at least some using different carriers.
Want to know how Rudy Giuliani was allowed to solicit dirt from Russian spies to help Trump get elected, without accountability? Want to know why Barr is considered a critic of Trump rather than his most corrupt enabler? Ask the journalists who lost interest in that story as soon as Rudy released a laptop full of Hunter Biden’s dick pics.
From Russia with Lev begins to reverse all that. But as infuriating as it is, it barely scratches the surface.
We will have a battle this week as Donald Trump’s lawyers try to prevent Jack Smith from filing the brief that Tanya Chutkan ordered him to file.
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Trump has 7% of his campaign left, and he’s spending much of his time outside of swing states, attempting to create stunts to shift the media narrative. Harris has 44% of her campaign left, and she’s spending it, partly, out of the limelight, working relentlessly to win over voters in the swing states that will decide the election.