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
To Celebrate Its Third Birthday, the Durham Investigation Will Attempt to Breach Eric Lichtblau’s Reporter’s Privilege
/27 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe, Press and Media/by emptywheelHappy Birthday to Johnny D and his merry band of prosecutors! Today marks your third birthday! Quite a milestone for an investigation that has just one conviction — a gift wrapped up with a bow from Michael Horowitz — to show for those three years. John Durham, however, had something much more ambitious planned to […]
Scene-Setter for the Sussmann Trial, Part One: The Elements of the Offense
/46 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelTo get a conviction of Michael Sussmann in the trial started next week, John Durham has to prove that Sussmann said what Durham claims Sussmann did to James Baker on September 19, 2016, that what Sussmann said was a lie, and that the alleged lie was material to the functioning of the FBI. That’ll be harder than you might think.