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 Trump Clouded Journalists’ Heads about Surveillance Video
/172 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelIt is not the case that if DOJ obtained all the surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago, Trump Org must have given it to them. In fact, one of the most damning documents Mueller obtained during the Russian investigation came from Microsoft, the cloud provider hosting services for Trump Org.
David Weiss Is Wrecking the Right Wing Story (and Likely Sandbagging Hunter Biden)
/30 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Foreign Influence/by emptywheelThe 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.