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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
1,500 Investigative Subjects: A Competent Google GeoFence Motion to Suppress for January 6
/20 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelLawyers for David Rhine have mounted one of the most serious challenges to the way the FBI used a Google GeoFence to identify suspects inside the Capitol on January 6. The motion to dismiss describes that the FBI identified 1,500 investigative subjects this way, which may be just a third of the people who were inside the building.
John Durham’s Last Word: An Outright Lie about the Mueller Conclusions
/36 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelIt is unclear what the jury in the Igor Danchenko case thinks of the confusing nested set of claims they were presented last week; we may get a verdict today. But it is fitting that John Durham ended his own attempt to find someone to blame for investigating things that — in this trial — he said should be investigated, by lying about the results of the Mueller investigation.
John Durham Created a False Pee Tape Panic Based Off a “Literally True” Alleged Lie
/61 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelIn dismissing the charge pertaining to Chuck Dolan yesterday, Judge Trenga has ruled, the statement that Igor Danchenko made that Durham claimed was a lie was literally true. Durham made of that literally true statement a bogus pee tape panic that has done breathtaking amounts of damage.