Author Archive for: emptywheel
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
The AT&T Associations Underlying the Shoddy Laptop Validation
/34 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelHunter 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 […]
Demons: The Greek Tragedy of America’s Hunter Biden Addiction
/95 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelNaomi 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.
How to Think about the Hunter Biden “Laptop”
/75 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheel50% 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.