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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
One Big Potentially Pending Question: What Happens to Trump’s Impeachment 1.0 Papers?
/50 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Impeachment, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelThere are several categories of documents seized in the search of Mar-a-Lago that might be privileged but that a judge might decide is evidence of the crimes covered by the warrant. The most difficult would be papers involving White House counsel lawyers who were part of Trump’s first Impeachment defense.