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.
Hunter Biden’s prosecutors may have knowledge of more problems with the laptop attributed to him than they’ve let on. As I’ve described and quoted here, all the validation they’ve provided for the laptop is that the serial number for the device matches one of the seven or eight laptops he was using in the year leading […]
We have no idea what jurors will decide in the Hunter Biden trial in days ahead. What we do know is what definition they’ll use to decide whether he was an addict.
David Weiss’ prosecutors will use the fact that the DEA didn’t check the Hunter Biden laptop found at Keith Ablow’s office for evidence of drug crimes to excuse the fact that they have no direct evidence of drug use for the period when Hunter Biden owned a gun.
Naomi Biden’s testimony in the Hunter Biden trial on Friday may well help prove the possession case against her dad, while conflicting stories from the gun shop guys might harm the counts pertaining to his statements on the gun form. More than anything else, though, Friday’s testimony demonstrated what a pointless stupid waste of time the nation’s focus on prosecuting Hunter Biden has been.
The garbage behind the Hunter Biden prosecution.
One of the Delaware cops who testified about finding the serial number of the gun that Hunter Biden bought described that the police report may have been filed over weeks or even a month.
50% of the digital data submitted at Hunter Biden’s trial before today was only available on the laptop, and other details virtually no one knows about the Hunter Biden laptop, including that girlfriend Zoe Kestan can offer more insight into the digital integrity of Hunter Biden’s data than Erika Jensen.
Derek Hines wants to imprison Hunter Biden without giving him an opportunity to show that the guy who claims he witnessed two of the charged crimes against Hunter Biden didn’t fulfill his own part of the paperwork.
Four times now, Derek Hines has falsely claimed that a crack pipe Hunter Biden used in February 2019 in New Haven was instead something he used in October 2018 in Wilmington. Why can’t Derek Hines keep his crack pipes straight?
Summary witness Erika Jensen did not look for signs of tampering on the laptop ascribed to Hunter Biden, and having not looked for it, she did not find any signs of tampering.