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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
When an Older White Catholic Man Admits, “This Toxicity that Exists Is Really Embarrassing”
/120 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelI don’t know whether Kamala Harris’ campaigning on a Constitution over party pitch with Liz Cheney will work. I don’t know if it’ll be enough to win this election. What I do know is that neither Harris nor Cheney are mistaking the enormity of the task, of trying to break the authoritarianism of a party that has overwhelmed voters with a blanket of disinformation and dehumanization.
So Help Me God: Lawyers, Encryption, and Insurrection
/6 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelVolume III of the Appendix to Jack Smith’s immunity brief starts with what are likely texts obtained from Mike Roman and Boris Epshteyn’s phones, both of which were seized in September 2022. There are reasons to suspect that Smith faced a delay in accessing texts from both those phones.
Hen in the Fox House: Jorge Velázquez and Ramiro González Better Served Democracy than Bret Baier
/137 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelBret Baier’s interview of Kamala Harris was probably only the third most important TV yesterday. On Univision, before a viewing audience that includes far more undecided swing voters, Trump refused to answer three questions few journalists have ever asked him, including why he did nothing as his rioters attacked the Capitol and how mass deportation will lead food prices to rise.