58A-PG-3250958: Curiosities about the Alexander Smirnov Case
David Weiss’ team seeks to detain Alexander Smirnov pretrial.
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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
Tony Bobulinski Says Trump’s Impeachment Radicalized Him
/16 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelWhen the actual facts didn’t match Tony Bobulinski’s claims in recent Oversight Committee testimony, he accused everyone else of lying.
David Weiss Is a Direct Witness to the Crimes on Which He Indicted Alexander Smirnov
/63 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelWith the indictment of Alexander Smirnov, David Weiss has now confessed that he’s a witness in the investigation of an attempt to frame Joe Biden, an investigation that claims to be investigating.
The Gaps in David Weiss’ Belated Indictment of Alexander Smirnov
/46 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelBy indicting Alexander Smirnov before Judge Mark Scarsi reviews discovery requests of Hunter Biden, David Weiss has closed off discovery that would implication him personally, as well as Scott Brady, Bill Barr, and Rudy Giuliani.
Where Derek Hines Claims to Have Gotten the Hunter Biden Dick Pics He Sniffed
/21 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelDerek Hines claims to have a whole bunch of digital evidence documenting Hunter Biden’s addiction in 2018. But some of it will be extremely difficult to introduce at trial.
Mr. Smith Goes to SCOTUS
/108 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelJack Smith’s response to Trump’s immunity appeal at SCOTUS.
Exp[o]rt Reports: When David Weiss Claimed Keith Ablow’s Sawdust Was Hunter Biden’s Cocaine
/138 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelDavid Weiss appears to have submitted a photo of a photo of sawdust taken by a Keith Ablow client and claimed it is a photo of “apparent cocaine” taken by Hunter Biden. That’s going to make the forensic challenges of prosecuting Hunter Biden using the laptop far more difficult.
Joseph Ziegler[‘s Filter Documents] Say Derek Hines Is Lying
/32 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelDerek Hines insinuates that investigators found drug-related evidence while looking for evidence of tax crimes. Except a filter document released by Joseph Ziegler shows they didn’t look for it.
David Weiss Claims to Have Plain Viewed Hunter Biden’s Dick Pics for Years
/54 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelThe way in which David Weiss plans to use data from stolen data against the son of the President is to claim that for FIVE YEARS he was accessing his dick pics based on Plain View access, and then mooted a suppression challenge by getting a last minute warrant.
How Robert Hur Ghosted Joe Biden’s Ghost Writer
/54 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelIn his 388-page report, Robert Hur doesn’t explain one of the most important details about why he invented a nonsense motive for Joe Biden to retain 2 folders of documents pertaining to Afghanistan in his garage: what led him to reach out to Joe Biden’s ghost writer and when that happened.