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
Christina Bobb, Custodian of Records and Coup Conspirator
/116 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelAs part of a ploy to excuse a declaration signed June 8 claiming that Trump had returned all classified documents, he has claimed that Christina Bobb is not his lawyer, but was instead his Custodian of Records. That would make a player in the January 6 coup attempt the custodian of records about that event — and some of America’s most sensitive secrets.
Demands for Sua Sponte Do-Overs and Billy Barr’s Thought Experiment about Trump’s Criminality
/75 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelIn a post last year about what was then a still heavily-redacted Amy Berman Jackson opinion ordering DOJ to release a Barr memo covering up the Mueller investigation, I wrote that this might finally be the case where DOJ would be held accountable for bullshit claims made in service of protecting secrets in FOIA cases. […]