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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
Trump Will Have to Defend His Attempt to Assassinate Mike Pence Before the Election
/50 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelJudge Chutkan has issued her scheduling order for the next developments in Trump’s January 6 trial. Rather than scheduling Trump’s frivolous attempt to challenge Jack Smith’s Special Counsel appointment first, Chutkan will instead deal with immunity first, with all briefing due a week before the election. September 19, 2024: Defendant’s Reply briefs in support of […]
Don Jr’s Online Buddies Allegedly Demand $5 Million from Russian Shell Companies to Say Nice Things about His Daddy
/63 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelDon Jr wailed when he learned DOJ was announcing more legal actions against Russian foreign influence operations. Did he know that the indictment against two RT personnel for using Tenet Media as a front would reveal Don Jr’s far right buddies demand $5 million to say nothing things about his Daddy?
Trump Wants to Hide His Attempt to Assassinate Mike Pence from Voters
/49 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelIn 2016, Donald Trump bragged he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and he wouldn’t lose any voters. In 2024, he’s inventing legal delays in hopes of preventing voters from learning the true horrors of his claim to have authority to get Mike Pence killed on January 6.