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
How 9 Months of Camera Footage became 8 Years
/47 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelUsing Trump’s funny math, prosecutors obtained more than ten years of video footage (counting each camera separately and adding up all the days from which camera footage was obtained). That suggests that prosecutors are interested in more than just Trump’s obstruction of the investigation.
On January 19, 2022, SCOTUS Upheld Judge Tanya Chutkan’s Decision Rejecting Trump’s Executive Privilege Claims
/116 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelFor 463 days after the Supreme Court upheld Judge Tanya Chutkan’s opinion on Executive Privilege, Donald Trump kept making such claims to stall the DOJ investigation. Trump caused at least nine months of delay in witness testimony with such frivolous Executive Privilege invocations.