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.
After growing to great lengths and making at least one false claim in a successful effort to ensure that none of Ronald Palimere’s 2020 communications regarding an effort to politicize Hunter Biden’s gun purchase could come in as evidence, it appears Derek Hines submitted one such piece of evidence himself.
It’s easy to prove Hunter Biden was an addict when he bought and owned a gun in 2018. But prosecutors have to do more than that: They have to prove he thought of himself as an addict at key times.
As prosecutors’ summary witness, Erika Jensen, continues to testify in the Hunter Biden case, keep an eye on her deliberate blind spots and negative space: because that’s precisely what prosecutors are trying to hide.
After agreeing with prosecutors that nothing the gun shop employees did after Hunter filled out the gun form was material to this case, Judge Maryellen Noreika then permitted prosecutors to submit evidence from months after his possession of the gun: sort of a heads the government wins, tails the defendants loses rule of time-space continuum.
Derek Hines has made another false claim that couldn’t survive 48 hours.
How, on the eve of opening arguments in the Hunter Biden case, do you launder the fact that David Weiss reneged on Hunter Biden’s plea deal because he was chasing false claims from a guy with close ties to Russian intelligence?
Trump paid $400,000 to cover up fucking a porn star. And yet reports on the way Republicans are debasing themselves to back Trump anyway aren’t talking about precisely what Donald Trump did.
Abbe Lowell wants to exclude virtually all laptop communications that won’t be authenticated by Hallie Biden based on evidentiary grounds.
Judge Maryellen Noreika has prohibited Hunter Biden to tell the jury that the gun shop owner was willing to skip key administrative steps when selling him a gun because he wanted to get Joe Biden’s son out of his shop.
Michael Cohen was investigated because he lied to his bank and then, even as he was making public comments about entertaining a “peace deal” with Russian involvement, used the bank account associated with the Stormy Daniels hush payment to accept big payments from a prominent Russian oligarch.