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 Rules Against Keeping Classified Documents in an Unsecure RV Parked alongside Jeremy Brown’s Home
/36 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelJeremy Brown wants to argue he had a good reason to bring classified information and store it in his RV. Probably, that argument will work no better for him than it has any number of Espionage Act defendants — or for that other disgruntled Floridian who took classified information home from work.
Two Inconsistent Stories on Additional Searches of Trump’s Property
/129 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelA Trump-friendly WaPo story reveals that an outside firm conducted additional searches for stolen classified documents on at least Bedminster and Trump Tower, and claims that some kind of attestation that no more documents were found (though that may apply only to Bedminster). CNN, however, reveals four properties were searched and states that no attestation was made.