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
The Potential International Grift Hiding behind the Stolen Documents Investigation
/90 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelInvestigative developments in the stolen document case reported out in the last several weeks have suggested that this investigation may not be the obstruction investigation everyone is treating it as. Jack Smith may only get to obstruction via a conspiracy to hoard classified documents.