Fox News and the Joint Tortfeasors
Hunter Biden is suing Fox News and other tortfeasors.
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.
Hunter Biden is suing Fox News and other tortfeasors.
Under Bill Barr’s close watch, Joe Biden was framed. Not only didn’t Kaitlan Collins ask him about his role in that process, but she let Barr lie to her face about being pressured on Hunter Biden.
We talk a lot about the SCOTUS immunity hearing.
Brett Kavanaugh tried to spin his concerns about Donald Trump being investigated, at all, yesterday as a concern about Special Counsels. Ironically, Hunter Biden may give Kavanaugh opportunity to back his stated concern with Special Counsels before Donald Trump does.
Sam Alito appears to believe everything Trump has claimed about the unfairness of his prosecutions.
Jack Smith focused close attention on contacts between Person 5 — who may be Boris Ephsteyn — and Person 49 — who may be Susie Wiles.
Mark Meadows December 2022 proffer is pretty boring. But it shows the baseline story that Meadows was willing to tell, before iterative interviews led that testimony to evolve to follow the evidence.
Trump made a whole bunch of claims of prosecutorial abuse last summer in a bid to get grand jury transcripts before he was charged.
The Archives’ initial description of the 15 boxes Trump returned in January 2022 explain why NARA referred them for more investigation: Trump had buried a nuclear document among press clippings, some post-dating his presidency.
Documents from Trump’s motion to compel in Florida remind of newly significant details of his White House’s failure to preserve tweets covered by the Presidential Records Act.