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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
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.