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.
The recommendations in a DOJ Inspector General Report on leak investigations might give Congress further protection to leak. But it also might give aspiring FBI Director Kash Patel an excuse to prioritize prosecutions of journalists, before his former Congressional colleagues.
There were five cases in which fabricated evidence about Hunter Biden was ingested by FBI. Most was not used by investigators, which the House GOP then used to politicize the case against him. But at least two did have an affect on his prosecution.
The glee surrounding Brian Thompson’s death is not unprecedented — Donald Trump campaigned on a similar mob glee, targeting Paul Pelosi, to get elected. And then he installed a bunch of billionaires to start looting. And politicians like Elizabeth Warren have already suggested some “broad public solutions” to that looting.
We talked about nominations and the Hunter Biden pardon.
You can’t pardon your way out of Trump’s attack on rule of law. It’s going to take much harder work than that.
Trump’s support of the dollar arises from his honestly held but incompetently implemented belief in American Greatness. His reckless support for a bubble cryptocurrency arises from his greed. With Trump, his greed tends to win out.
What kind of aspiring J Edgar Hoover can’t even alphabetize his enemies list properly?
Devlin Barrett attacked Joe Biden’s claims about how political pressure affected Hunter Biden’s case by inventing a straw man and then linking the reported article that debunked him.
Judge Mark Scarsi’s complaint that Joe Biden rewrote history in his press release announcing Hunter’s pardon if he had not done the same in his ruling that Hunter’s prosecution was not vindictive.
The paper owned by defense contractor Jeff Bezos chose to publish seven mostly worthless posts on Hunter Biden’s pardon and not one on allegations that aspiring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth couldn’t even manage two medium non-profits without financially ruining them.