Cleta Mitchell Skates
While grand jurors expressed lukewarm support for charging three Senators — David Purdue, Kelli Leoffler, and Lindsey Graham — they expressed far more support for charging Cleta Mitchell, who nevertheless was not charged.
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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.
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Stan Woodward Thinks Aileen Cannon Is an Easy Mark
/238 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelBefore Stan Woodward stalled any conflict review for his client Walt Nauta for a month, he tried to delay any conflict review for his then-client Yuscil Taveras.
The Comings and Goings of Insurrection
/260 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelIt sounds like Mark Meadows may succeed in getting his trial removed to Federal court, but not dismissed.
FISC Rules that [Redacted] Is Not Subject to FISA 702 for One of Its Services
/18 Comments/in FISA/by emptywheelSome company successfully argued that, under FISA 702, if they don’t have access to your data, they can’t be compelled to provide US spooks assistance to get to it.
Aileen Cannon Working Hard to Protect Stan Woodward; Doing Nothing to Protect Walt Nauta or Carlos De Oliveira
/228 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelAileen Cannon has helped Stan Woodward stall any resolution of the potential conflict in his representation of Walt Nauta for an additional nine days based off his claim not to have notice of the sealed documents that Cannon herself had stricken from the docket 18 days before. Between them, they have ensured that Nauta will wait a month to get notice of the potential problems with Woodward’s conflicted representation, if Cannon grants one at all.
Right Wing Operatives Say Hunter Biden Shouldn’t Get Same Treatment as Dmitry Firtash
/34 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden, Impeachment/by emptywheelRight wing operatives are now wailing that Hunter Biden’s lawyers sought out a DOJ meeting to point out that much of the investigation into their client happened as part of a political campaign. But they didn’t seem to mind the DOJ meeting that was part of that political campaign.
Willie Floyd’s Curiously Inactive Docket
/62 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelWaPo discovered that one of the GA co-conspirators, Willie Floyd, was charged with assaulting 2 FBI agents in May. But what has happened since, if anything, remains sealed.
The Guts of the Alleged Conspiracy: Scott Hall
/139 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelWhile we’re all awaiting the next mugshot of a high profile charged co-conspirator, the key to understanding how all the strands of Trump’s attempt to steal the election fit together may lie with lower profile Georgia bail bondsman, Scott Hall, who was released yesterday on bail himself. The David Bossie brother-in-law had ties not just to Jeffrey Clark and the Coffee County caper, but also apparently to the effort to pressure Ruby Freeman.
The Secrets within Donald Trump’s Stolen Secrets Docket
/31 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelDOJ unsealed a good deal of grand jury information to include in its reply to Judge Cannon.
DOJ Invites Aileen Cannon to Avoid Another Reversible Error
/119 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelJudge Cannon has already been reversed by the 11th Circuit in humiliating fashion in the stolen documents case once.
DOJ is trying to help her avoid a second reversal.