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
Joseph Hackett’s Detention Argument: Guns, Operational Security, and Involvement in Kelly Meggs’ Plans for Nancy Pelosi
/11 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelAccording to a new detention memo for Oath Keeper Joseph Hackett, he is too dangerous to release because he’s a leader of an organized militia, armed, obsessive about operational security, but also because he was privy to whatever plans Kelly Meggs had for Nancy Pelosi during the insurrection.
John Durham Won’t Charge Any of Trump’s Favorite Villains
/54 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelOn Friday, WSJ had an article that might have been titled, “John Durham won’t charge any of Donald Trump’s favorite villains.” It reported that Durham is still considering charges against people outside of government and “lower-level FBI employees.” Mr. Durham has been examining potential criminal charges against several lower-level Federal Bureau of Investigation employees, and […]
Terrorists in the Tunnel: The Omnibus Indictment for Officer Daniel Hodge’s Assault
/8 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection, Terrorism/by emptywheelWhen he testified before the January 6 committee about his assault, allegedly at the hands of two men charged in an omnibus assault indictment, Daniel Hodges called them terrorism. The indictment may well prove that their acts of violence against him and against our democracy were just that.