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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
The Trump-Biden-Pence Documents Story Is Not (Yet) about Overclassification
/40 Comments/in Leak Investigations/by emptywheelThere is, to date, not any evidence that the Bush-Biden-Pence document story is about overclassification. Rather, it’s about the way that Presidents and Vice Presidents go from being immune from laws on classification to being subject to them in an instant, all while packing up boxes to leave.
Johnny McEntee: Enforcer of Trump’s Authority to Invoke the Insurrection Act
/20 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelJohnny McEntee likely testified to a grand jury last Friday about a potentially exculpatory comment he claims he heard Trump make to Mike Flynn. But along the way he may have been asked about his role in Trump’s plan to use the National Guard to protect him as he marched on the Capitol.