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
Bringing Receipts: Print Date: 10/22/20
/22 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelAfter 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.
Judge Noreika Joins Derek Hines in Selective Adherence to the Laws of Physics
/28 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelAfter 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.