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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.
Entries by emptywheel
In Hunter Biden Case, Abbe Lowell Enters His Appearance
/128 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelEven before David Weiss “reneged” on the plea deal he had crafted with Hunter Biden, Joseph Ziegler had already revealed there was documentation of undue political influence on this case in the case file. Abbe Lowell suggests that the only explanation why Weiss reneged is more of the same.