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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
David Weiss’ Indict First, Seek Warrants Later Ethic
/76 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelDavid Weiss appears to have indicted the President’s son without first getting a warrant to use some of the key evidence he’ll use at trial.
Scott Brady Admitted He “Was in the Room” for One Partisan Errand; Was There for a Second?
/9 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelScott Brady twice signed his name to indictments describing Russian hackers attacking others like they are accused of attacking Hillary Clinton. Yet he refused to back the work of his own investigators
Donald Trump Has Chosen to Pay Millions to Trash Rule of Law
/248 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelRegarding Trump’s behavior in the E Jean Carroll trial: It’s not that he can’t control himself. It’s that he’s a very good Reality TV Show actor.
The Coke-in-Gun Actually Harms David Weiss’ Case
/48 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelDavid Weiss titillated a bunch of dick pic sniffers that the FBI found cocaine residue in a pouch in which Hunter had his gun. What those dick pic sniffers don’t realize is that may actually help to prove Hunter’s argument.
David Weiss Buries Bill Barr Right Alongside Tony Bobulinski
/26 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelHunter Biden prosecutor Derek Hines dismissed evidence the investigation had been politicized by burying the substance of Bill Barr’s involvement.
David Weiss’ Responses to Motions to Dismiss
/20 Comments/in Hunter Biden/by emptywheelAn open thread on David Weiss’ response to Hunter Biden’s Motions to Dismiss.
For Almost a Year, “Jim Jordan” Has Been Saying Hunter Biden Didn’t Need to Testify
/28 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelTwo of the letters that Jim Jordan keeps forgetting to cite in the legal dispute over Hunter Biden’s testimony quoted him, at length, explaining why a subpoena of Hunter Biden would be an abuse of the House’s authority.
The Non-Visible Networks behind the More Visible Networks of Fascism
/180 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelAny effort to describe how Trump trained the Republican party to hate rule of law has to account for the extensive and far uglier non-visible networks on which the visible effort builds.
Leaders and Best Michigan and Some Other Football Trash
/178 Comments/in emptywheel, Trash Talk/by emptywheelHail to the Victors Valiant! Hail to the Conquering Heros! Hail hail to other trash as well!