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.
In the third part of Gus Dimitrelos’ report* on the laptop attributed to Hunter Biden, he examines what he could find in the unallocated space of the laptop — the place where deleted files go on computers until they eventually get written over. He does it, in laymen’s terms, to prove that there was someone […]
The frothers generally claim that “Hunter Biden’s” “laptop” is authentic because it is registered to an account, [email protected], registered to him. But the more interesting question is how that account got access to a different iCloud account, registered to the email [email protected].
Andrew DeFilippis was the source of the worst abuses on the John Durham investigation. And he managed the classified aspects of the prosecution of Gal Luft’s co-conspirator-1, Patrick Ho.
James Comer’s imaginary whistleblower friend was charged — last November — for lying at the meeting where he claims to have shared dirt on Hunter Biden.
Trump says the discovery in his stolen documents case — which includes 9 months of surveillance footage — is too sensitive to entrust to vendors whose job is ensuring such discovery doesn’t leak.
Trump says he’s too busy running for President to stand trial to determine whether he made false promises to protect classified information the last time he ran, only to use access he obtained as President to steal the nation’s secrets.
With his first filing in the Walt Nauta case, Stanley Woodward has decided to test — tactically — Judge Aileen Cannon’s patience.
Chuck Grassley has unwittingly revealed that the briefing of an FD-1023 that Pittsburgh FBI agents gave David Weiss’ office days after Rudy Giuliani revealed his tie to the “Hunter Biden” “laptop”–which Bill Barr spun as an investigation into the bribery allegation in it–instead came as the office was reviewing the damage to the tax investigation of Rudy’s political hit job.
Around the same time someone downloaded Hunter Biden’s iCloud account, someone restored his contacts list.
In January 2019, the Gmail account Hunter Biden used to contact sex workers took over his iCloud account and ordered all his content for download. The next month, the data on the Hunter Biden laptop was deleted.