Mike Roman, Donald Trump’s Spy and Vote Fraud Fraudster
Once you understand that the spying skills WaPo describes in a Mike Roman profile have traditionally been targeted at Republicans, a lot else begins to make sense.
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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
The Hunter Biden Laptop: Two CARTs before the Horse
/118 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelAccording to the warrants associated with the laptop attributed to Hunter Biden, an FBI agent took possession of the laptop from John Paul Mac Isaac, then four days later, took possession of the laptop from one CART agent to hand off to another CART agent.
Smoking Gun! FBI Didn’t Have “Sufficient Evidence” to Prosecute Firearms Crimes against Hunter Biden
/75 Comments/in 2020 Election, 2022 Mid-Term Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelThe Devlin Barrett story in October 2022 designed to pressure David Weiss to charge gun and tax crimes against, Hunter Biden claimed that investigators had sufficient evidence to charge the gun crimes. WaPo hasn’t reported on the three months of investigative work done since actually charging to try to obtain sufficient evidence to prosecute the charges.
Chessboard(s): Hunter Biden’s Replies
/87 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelAbbe Lowell is collecting a whole lot of information to increase his success at beating the odds on motions to dismiss the charges against Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden Reply Motions to Dismiss
/37 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelHunter Biden’s replies to his motions to dismiss.
IRS First Received Hunter Biden’s iCloud Data on Same Day White House Released the Perfect Phone Call
/80 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelThe IRS first obtained content from Hunter Biden’s iCloud on the same day — September 25, 2019 — that the Perfect Phone Call revealed that Donald Trump was demanding investigations just like they were conducting.
The Post-Indictment Hunter Biden Warrant Included the Laptop
/38 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelThe warrant Derek Hines obtained for Hunter Biden’s content in December 2023 included the laptop itself.
Joe Biden Appointee Ana Reyes Imposes Maximum Sentence to Avenge Donald Trump’s Privacy
/48 Comments/in Leak Investigations/by emptywheelA recent Joe Biden appointee just imposed the maximum possible sentence on the guy who stole Trump’s tax returns to leak to the press.
New WaPo Boss, Will Lewis, Brags about Dick Pic Sniffing that Fails to Correct Past Errors
/25 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelIn testimony before Congress, Hunter Biden’s former gallerist George Bergès debunked a key premise of the manufactured scandal about payments from art collectors that Matt Viser started back in 2021, that the paintings were being sold for up to $500,000. Yet Viser didn’t tell his readers that in his report on Bergès’ testimony.
Parallel Poisons: Derek Hines’ (Mis)Representations about His Post-Indictment Investigation
/37 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelProsecutor Derek Hines will likely get away with obtaining a warrant on Hunter Biden 81 days after he indicted the President’s son. His efforts to obscure that fact, however, that might get him in trouble.