Author Archive for: emptywheel
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
When Michael Dreeben Accepted John Sauer’s Invitation to Talk about Speech and Debate
/107 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelJohn Sauer added something to Donald Trump’s immunity claims: That he should be entitled to the same immunities members of Congress are. That led Michael Dreeben to invoke Karen Henderson’s past concurrence establishing that, “it is well settled that a Member is subject to criminal prosecution and process.”
Rudy Giuliani’s Scott Brady Interview Doesn’t Appear in His Warrant Affidavit
/57 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelThe warrant affidavit targeting Rudy from April 21, 2021 relied on articles, interviews, and Tweets to source Rudy’s own claims about what he was doing in Ukraine in 2019. It never once mentions the 4-hour interview about the topic Rudy did with Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady on January 29, 2020.
Garrett Ziegler’s Landscaping Problem
/96 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelGarrett Ziegler focuses most of his response to Hunter Biden’s hacking lawsuit arguing that using a password to access the encrypted iPhone backup included on the hard drive he got from a Rudy Giuliani associate is not hacking. He doesn’t address whether he hacked any of Hunter’s cloud content.