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
What Happened to Hunter Biden’s Plea Agreement
/47 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelThe timeline of the collapse of the plea deal released in the last year makes it clear that David Weiss reneged on the scope of the immunity offered to Hunter Biden. But Hunter was willing to accept that narrowed scope. What killed the deal was Judge Noreika’s intervention in the Diversion (not Plea) Agreement.
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 […]