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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
Aileen Cannon Confesses She’s Unable to Distinguish between Golf Balls and Nuclear Weapons
/23 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelDepending on how you count, Aileen Cannon issued three or four decisions yesterday. The most telling is an order letting Trump have a mulligan on whether his false attacks on the FBI pose a danger to society. As Jack Smith’s team described in a filing, after a hearing on the matter on June 24, Judge […]
Sammy Alito Makes a Great Case Trump Censored Fox News’ Accurate 2020 Election Reporting
/15 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel/by emptywheelIn his Murthy v. Missouri dissent, Sam Alito said that if the President demands that a media outlet censor true content to publish favored content, that is impermissible censorship. He made a great case that Donald Trump unlawfully dictated Fox News’ coverage during the 2020 transition.