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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
Trump’s File B-076: Calvinball Ping Pong
/55 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelBy ruling that Document B-076 is not privileged, Raymond Dearie has established that none of the personal documents that will be returned to Trump by the time DOJ submits its appeals brief on October 14 was an example of a privileged document escaping the filter team. By the time DOJ submits its appeal, much of the harm that Cannon caused or invented will have been ameliorated.
FBI Allegedly Found Child Sexual Abuse Material When It Searched Josh Schulte’s Discovery Laptop
/21 Comments/in Cybersecurity/by emptywheelThe government alleges that when they searched Josh Schulte’s laptop for contraband starting in July, they found a significant amount of Child Sexual Abuse Material on his discovery laptop, probably copied from the disc that contains the CSAM allegedly found on his home computer. Schulte will be stuck with a typewriter to finish his post-trial motions.
Judge Aileen Cannon Treated a Public Letter about Trump’s Health as More Sensitive than America’s National Security
/73 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelThe two privilege logs completed by the filter teams who searched Trump’s beach resort were accidentally loaded to the docket. They reveal that Aileen Cannon risked US national security based off a claim that a medial record Trump released during the campaign in 2016 was a personal document the deprivation of which harmed Donald Trump.