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
Emil Bove’s Missing Documents
/42 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, Trump 2.0/by emptywheelThere are a number of documents Judge Dale Ho might demand that Emil Bove submit to the docket before dismissing the case against Eric Adams, including the notes from a January 31 meeting that Bove confiscated. Remarkably, though, Bove didn’t even submit the most obvious: Adams’ consent to dismissal without prejudice, which Bove negotiated without the involvement of SDNY.
Marko Elez “Resigned” the Day His Write Access to Payment Systems Was Discovered
/41 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, DOGE, Trump 2.0/by emptywheelBecause Marko Elez resigned the same day WSJ asked Treasury about racist social media comments, it has been assumed that that was why he quit. But that’s just based on correlation, not any proof of causation. So we can’t rule out that he quit because Treasury discovered he had more access than they intended to give him.