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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
Judge Cooper Rules for Durham on Key Issues, But Rules against His Conspiracy Theory
/36 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelIn the Sussmann case, Judge Christopher Cooper has, overly optimistically, I think, set up a framework (primarily by excluding discussion about the accuracy of the information) that he thinks will guide all these decisions. But even within that framework, the rules of evidence will still apply.
And that will leave significant parts of Durham’s conspiracy theory out of the trial.
Tick Tock: SDNY Tells Project Veritas, Again, To Wait Until James O’Keefe Is Indicted to Complain
/28 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel/by emptywheelDuring the six weeks that Judge Analisa Torres has been considering Project Veritas’ demand to claw back materials obtained in SDNY’s investigation of Ashley Biden’s allegedly stolen diary, Special Master Barbara Jones has gotten almost through the process of handing those materials over to SDNY.