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.
Kristi Noem is trying to cover up a lot of embarrassing details with her invocation of State Secrets in the Alien Enemies Act deportation case. But among the most embarrassing for a transphobe like her is that she misidentified the sex of nine of the detainees, sending women when Nayib Bukele would only accept men.
The State of the Union was 20 days ago. Since that day, Democrats have spent much of their time talking about other Democrats, talking about how Democrats are responding to the assault on the country, rather than talking about the assault itself and the people responsible. In my opinion, focusing on Chuck Schumer — however justified […]
By all appearances, on Scott Bessent’s authority, someone at least considered giving Marko Elez — at the time only cleared to the Secret level — Top Secret Read/Write access to Treasury’s Mainframe, without first making sure he had signed a list of rules about altering or copying data.