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
Bennie Thompson to Ivanka: Come In from the Conspiracy
/169 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelIn a letter inviting Ivanka to testify voluntarily to the January 6 Select Committee, Bennie Thompson very subtly said two things: Trump entered into an agreement with leaders of multiple conspiracies to engage in violence on January 6, and unless Ivanka turned over all her White House records to the National Archives as required by the Presidential Records Act, so did she.
“HOLD. THE. LINE!!!” DOJ’s Late Research into Brandon Straka’s Grift
/38 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelIt’s difficult to tell what really went down with the Brandon Straka plea. That’s because — as laid out here — the government seems to have realized that Straka had been less than forthright in interviews, in which he was deemed cooperative last year, that got him a sweet plea deal. In their sentencing memo, […]
Pandora’s Presidential Archives, Couy Griffin Edition
/16 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelCowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin wants DOJ to provide him records that should be stored as part of Trump’s records at the National Archives. If Judge Trevor McFadden were to order DOJ to start searching through Trump’s presidential records for January 6 evidence, Griffin may regret asking.