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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
The Blind Squirrel’s Nut: Chuck Grassley Unwittingly Debunks Bill Barr
/67 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelChuck 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.