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.
Volume 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.
Bret 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.
Back in February 2022, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that it was at least plausible to hold Trump liable for the assaults of cops on January 6 via an aid and abet theory of liability. In Jack Smith’s response to Trump’s attempt to get his indictment thrown out based on the Fischer decision Smith adopts that theory of liability.