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
Rule of Law: DOJ Obtained Trump’s Privilege-Waived Documents in May
/71 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelIn August and December 2021 and May of this year, I laid out how subpoenaing the records the January 6 Committee had already gotten Joe Biden to review for privilege was a solution to a tricky constitutional problem with investigating the former President. In May, DOJ did just that.
There Are 5,000 More Like Ricky Shiffer
/39 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelUntil very recently, Ricky Shiffer was the kind of “MAGA tourist” that those unfamiliar with the January 6 investigation say should be ignored. Last week, he became the radicalized Trump supporter directly attacking the FBI that the very same people suggest should have been found before he acted.
The ABCs (and Provisions e, f, and g) of the Espionage Act
/133 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelThe CFR guidelines regarding standards for storing classified information not only dictate what type of lock one must used, but it also requires that someone inspect the Secret information stored in non-compliant closets every 4 hours, which may be why DOJ subpoenaed Trump for his surveillance footage.