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.
For the entire month of August last year, Donald Trump pointed to the new lock he put on the storage facility at Mar-a-Lago as proof he was cooperating with DOJ. When the FBI came to search it, Carlos De Oliveira told the FBI he had given away the key.
The Statement of Offense written as part of Hunter Biden’s plea deal looks like it was was written not for the tax charges to which he was pleading guilty, but to the FARA charges Biden thought would be off the table with this deal. And it sure looks like this “plea deal” was an attempt to sheepdip the entire prosecution to get Hunter Biden to clean the taint himself.
The last overt act in the superseding stolen documents indictment was August 26, 2022. On August 27, 2022, Aileen Cannon improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction and, days later, stalled the investigation for three months.
The superseding stolen documents indictment shows how Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira tried to destroy surveillance footage. But it does not yet explain how and who succeeded in putting more limited gaps in surveillance footage.
Jack Smith superseded the Florida indictment.
One of the suspects in an investigation involving tampering with ballot tabulators claims she has been indicted, and failed GOP candidate Ryan Kelley is expected to plead guilty today.
Based on what Rudy and his defense attorney have said in sworn declarations, Rudy appears to be claiming that hundreds of January 6-related documents are privileged that they already conceded were not.
Robert Costello just revealed that at least seven of the devices DOJ seized from Rudy Giuliani in 2021 were “corrupted.”
In its supine effort to magnify Republican scandal, the press is covering up the details from Joseph Ziegler’s testimony that revealed there were legal problems with the case, including Trump’s own attempts to influence it.
Two of the most inexplicable January 6 crime scene plea deals, Sam Lazar and James Breheny, both have some tie to Lancaster PA.