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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
Judge Maryellen Noreika Prepares for a Hunter Biden Trial … without Bates Stamps
/44 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelJudge Maryellen Noreika relied in a key decision on evidence made available from Rudy Giuliani, while claiming that it derived from Hunter Biden’s memoir. That’s one of many reasons to be alarmed that Judge Maryellen Noreika has decided that Hunter Biden prosecutors don’t have to tell him whence they’ve derived laptop evidence before trial.