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.
Given how consistently Greg Bovino is at the scene of unjustified violence against ICE observers, including today’s shooting, and given Bovino’s refusal to answer whether Stephen Miller has given him instructions about violence against protestors, it’s time to ask whether Miller has ordered this violence.
While the guts of the superseding indictment against Nicolás Maduro and his wife and son remains as sound as the one obtained in 2020, Trump’s DOJ has added several things — like Mexican cartels, a tenuous inclusion of Tren de Aragua, and a deliberately illegitimate assault any Maduro claim to immunity — that raise real concerns about how Stephen Miller will use this indictment.