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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
Trump’s Deep State Can’t Even Deep State Competently
/39 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelBecause conspiracy theorist turned Deputy Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, couldn’t find experts in digital forensics and chain of custody at an agency that employs thousands of such people, all the squabbling members of Trump’s Deep State trying to end the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories have made it far, far worse.