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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
How Adam Schiff Proves that Adam Schiff Is Lying that It Is “Unprecedented” for Congress to Be Ahead of DOJ
/190 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelAdam Schiff claimed that it is unprecedented for a congressional committee to be so far ahead of DOJ on an investigation as he imagines the January 6 Committee is with the DOJ investigation into January 6. His and Andrew Weissmann’s histories on the Russian investigation easily disprove that.
How Trump’s Ad-Libbed Changes Led Directly to Assaults on Cops
/38 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelAt least a dozen January 6 defendants attributed their decision to go to the Capitol — and in at least one case, to get angry enough to join the attack in the Tunnel — to Trump’s claim he would join his supporters walking to the Capitol. As Stephanie Murphy explained, that line was ad-libbed.