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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.
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Confirmed: David Weiss Only Got a Gun Crime iCloud Warrant 81 Days after Indicting Hunter Biden
/28 Comments/in 2020 Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelDavid Weiss didn’t obtain a warrant to search iCloud content seized from Hunter Biden for evidence of gun crimes until 81 days after he indicted Hunter for those gun crimes.
Claiming Josh Schulte’s Leaks Cost CIA 100s of Millions, DOJ Asks for Life Sentence
/40 Comments/in Cybersecurity, WikiLeaks/by emptywheelIn a sentencing memorandum for Joshua Schulte, DOJ asked for a life sentence.
In Peter Navarro Sentencing, No Mention of Competing Claims about Official Acts
/37 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelPeter Navarro was sentenced to four months for defying a subpoena from the January 6 Committee.
A Second Trump Term Would Replace Competent Corrupt People with Incompetent Ones
/34 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelThe question of how a second Trump would be worse than his first must weigh how the incompetent corrupt people he’d install rather than experienced corrupt hands like Bill Barr would more and less effective.
“What it gets at is just facts:” MAGAts Learn to Love Long-Delayed Interview Reports
/40 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelAfter chasing conspiracy theories about the delay in writing up the January 24, 2017 Mike Flynn interview reports, Republicans now believe even longer delays do nothing to undercut a report’s credibility.
Abbe Lowell’s Eight Chessboards
/24 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelAbbe Lowell has at least eight Hunter Biden cases all coming to a head in the months ahead. That may mean he’ll have big reveals that are even more dramatic than Hunter’s twin surprise appearances in DC.
How One New Hampshire Voter and One Politico Journalist Refused to Hold “a Pig … a Womanizer … [an] Arrogant Asshole” Accountable
/51 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelJournalists’ reflexive equation of Hunter Biden with the President who targeted him for over five years is a false belief every bit as cultivated by Donald Trump as Ted Johnson’s pathetic belief that Trump brings accountability rather than the opposite.
Peter Navarro and the Office-Seeker Using ProtonMail Challenge
/27 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThe twin litigations involving Peter Navarro suggest that he’s continuing to withhold almost 600 records sent on ProtonMail pertaining to the coup attempt. He’s withholding them under conflicting claims about whether plotting a coup was part of his official duties in the Trump White House.
Hunter Biden Lost His Phone(s) in the Same Days He Bought a Gun
/45 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelWithin a day before Hunter Biden bought a gun in October 2018, he lost at least one phone. That’s going to add some complexities to proving a case against him.