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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
Follow the Money, Break the Attorney-Client Wall of Obstruction
/19 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelJack Smith is leading two investigations in which at least 26 key witnesses or subjects are lawyers. One way to break through the wall of privilege Trump his hiding behind is to investigate how false claims of vote fraud paid for suspect legal representation to obstruct this investigation.