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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
A Dossier Steal: HPSCI Expertly Discloses Their Own Shoddy Cover-Up
/5 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelMost of the HPSCI Report complaints about the Steele dossier object that the Intelligence Community Assessment did not include details the committee itself discovered much later. But as with the main part of the report, their OWN silences — about Paul Manafort, about Oleg Deripaska — are the real story.
The EU Trade Deal: Playing for Time
/8 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThe purported trade agreement between the EU and US doesn’t address how much VOS Selections — the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Trump’s tariffs — will have to pay to import wine from at least eight EU countries, over a hundred days after they challenged Trump’s tariffs for being capricious.
Think of the HPSCI Report as a Time Machine to Launder Donald Trump’s Russia Russia Russia Claims
/8 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelRight wingers on the House Intelligence Committee used a 2018 indictment from Robert Mueller as part of their “proof” that authors of the Intelligence Community Assessment report finalized in January 2017 ignored evidence that Putin wanted Hillary to win. The entire HPSCI Report attempts to create a time machine to make Trump’s Russia Russia Russia problem go away.
If Dems Successfully Message on News Outlets Lefty Pundits No Longer Read, Did It Ever Happen?
/36 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelA day after RTing an Axios ragebait post seeming to suggest that Hakeem Jeffries was opposed to messaging on Jeffrey Epstein but instead laying out the many ways Jeffries is encouraging it, David Atkins falsely claimed that Dem “leadership isnt backing [] up” laudable Democratic efforts to message on Jeffrey Epstein.