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
Team Trump Knows Details of the Investigation that Jay Bratt Does Not — and Trump’s Already Leaking Them
/164 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelMarco Rubio falsely claimed that only the Justice Department knows what was the FBI seized in Trump’s leatherbound box on August 8. That’s obviously false. Trump himself knows what he had stashed away. But as of last Thursday, there are things that Trump’s team knows that prosecutor Jay Bratt does not. And Trump is already leaking about it.
NARA May Have Pre-Existing Legal Obligations with Respect to Documents Covered by Aileen Cannon’s Order
/11 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Foreign Influence, January 6 Insurrection, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelThere are at least four legal requests pending at NARA — two sets of subpoenas pertaining to January 6, discovery requests pertaining to Tom Barrack’s prosecution, and a subpoena from Peter Strzok — that might represent legal obligations on the rightful owner of the 11,282 government documents seized from Mar-a-Lago on August 8 that pre-dates Judge Cannon’s order limiting access to them.
Aileen Cannon Prioritized Donald Trump’s Reputation over CIA Assets’ Lives
/186 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelDonald Trump has already been given 18 months during which his failure to prevent leaks of highly classified documents could get people killed. Yesterday, Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that — to protect him from merely hypothetical leaks — he must be given more time to get people killed.