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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
Hunter Biden Moves to Enjoin David Weiss Under an Appropriations Argument Trump Adopted
/26 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelBefore Trump made his frivolous challenge to Jack Smith’s Special Counsel appointment on appropriations grounds, Hunter Biden challenged David Weiss’ appointment with more merit. That could make the parallel track of these prosecutions — with Hunter Biden’s prosecutions rushing towards conclusion next month and Trump’s stalled past the election — more interesting.
The Cultivation of Don Jr: A Framework to Think of the Russian Attack
/22 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, WikiLeaks/by emptywheelWith the 2016 attack, Russia didn’t need cooperation from Trump’s people (though they got it from at least Manafort and Stone and idiot who proved useful Don Jr). They just needed to make any already improbable conciliation impossible, impossible politically and impossible for a Narcissist like Trump to do. That would practically guarantee that Trump would attack the country to defend himself, his son, his ego.