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.
In any year, DOJ would not be providing much comment on investigations into election-related crime like Elon Musk’s suspected illegal payments or the arson targeting dropboxes in Washington and Oregon. But that’s all the more true because of a scathing Inspector General Report from July laying out Bill Barr and a Trump US Attorney’s efforts to publicize an instance of ballot tampering.