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
Four Stories about Paul Manafort from Andrew Weissmann’s Team M
/14 Comments/in 2016 Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelDOJ has released a heavily redacted version of the Team M Report, Andrew Weissmann’s effort to capture everything the team focusing on Paul Manafort learned as part of the Mueller Report. But given redacted portions of the SSCI Report released just over a year later, the most interesting part of the Team M Report is likely a classified supplement not released in the FOIA release.
“The Bell Can Never Be Unrung” … The Many Times Durham’s Prosecutors Flouted Judge Cooper’s Orders
/64 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelThere will be a lot said about the Michael Sussmann trial, no matter the verdict. But the serial defiance Durham prosecutors showed towards Judge Christopher Cooper’s orders makes the overall project clear. In spite of being prohibited from doing so, Durham attempted to criminalize, under a conspiracy theory, perfectly legal behavior.