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
Perfect Phone Calls: Redefining Vindictive Prosecution in the Trump Era
/41 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelLast week, Abbe Lowell requested subpoenas in the Hunter Biden case — subpoenas that would obtain known records ranging from mean Trump tweets, to Bill Barr’s efforts to funnel a bribery allegation obtained downstream from Rudy’s efforts to Trump up a bribery allegation, to the Perfect Phone call. It’s an impossible subpoena request. But it’s also a request that goes to the core of defending against the kind retribution Trump demands.