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.
John Durham has stated those who falsely claimed that a filing he submitted proved that Rodney Joffe “spied” on Trump are simply “third parties” who “misrepresented the facts.” Except one of the first to use that term, “spying,” is a key fact witness against Igor Danchenko, Sergei Millian’s twitter account.
The Archives made it clear this week that there are tweets Ivanka set that should have been, but were not, archived under the Presidential Records Act. One of those is likely to be a tweet reflecting support for the rioters who had obstructed the presidential vote certification on January 6 by occupying the Capitol.
A Fox News piece trying to rebut mounting evidence that Durham failed to do basic investigative work and has bullied witnesses reveals that John Ratcliffe — who had a key role in burning sensitive intelligence in pursuit of a conspiracy theory — has been interviewed by Durham’s team repeatedly.