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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
Six Investigative Files from the Mueller Investigation Durham May Have Just Committed to Providing Michael Sussmann
/49 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelJohn Durham wants to make Michael Sussmann’s trial into a test of whether suspicions about Trump’s close associates, Oligarchs, money laundering, back channels with the Kremlin, and German Khan’s son-in-law were merited in 2016. That means he better start shoveling over all the evidence that it was.
John Durham Unveils His Post-Putin Puppet Strategy
/33 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelI first complained publicly about the Alfa Bank allegations on November 1, 2016. I raised questions about the provenance of the Steele dossier the day after it was released, on January 11, 2017. I started raising concerns that Russia had succeeded in injecting the dossier with disinformation just a year later — literally years before […]
Tunnel Vision: Durham Treats Citizens’ Research into Real Paul Manafort Crimes Like a Criminal Conspiracy
/40 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelJohn Durham wants to argue that a private citizen’s attempt to learn about real crimes by a Presidential candidate and his campaign manager before he is elected amounts to a criminal conspiracy. But he may find Michael Sussmann’s trial instead focuses on Sussmann’s understanding, in real time, of Donald Trump’s very real role in a hack of his client.