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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
Some Likely Exacerbating Factors that Would Contribute to a Trump Search
/205 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Foreign Influence, Impeachment/by emptywheelThere are a number of topics — Trump’s first impeachment, his ties to Middle Eastern countries, his conversations with Vladimir Putin, and security records pertaining to January 6 — that might exacerbate the legal complications of investigating a former President for stealing classified documents.