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.
Evan Corcoran, in a filing that failed to disclose his own role in the events under investigation, falsely suggested to Judge Aileen Cannon that this was a search about the Presidential Records Act and not an investigation into violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction. He didn’t even tell her that he is named in the affidavit showing probable cause of obstruction.