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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
Christina Bobb’s Rent-an-Attorney-Client Cut-Out Computer
/79 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelWhen the January 6 Committee asked Christina Bobb about the memo calling to seize the voting machines — the metadata of which showed she authored — she claimed she had nothing to do with it. No wonder she was the lawyer asked to certify that a diligent search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents had occurred.
The Narcissist with a Top Secret Clearance Trying to Impress Teenagers in a Ukraine-Russia Chat Room
/53 Comments/in Leak Investigations/by emptywheelBased on the observations of untrained teenagers, it’s fairly clear the guy behind the Thug Shaker leaks is a narcissist ginned up by conspiracy theories who leaked the documents in a room focused on Ukraine. The question is whether he leaked the documents solely for the adulation of teenagers, or whether some spooks IDed him as an easy mark.