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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
Chuck Grassley Must Think the FD-1023 Informant Is Worth Killing Off
/109 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelThat Chuck Grassley released an almost unredacted FD-1023 after dire warnings from the FBI is a tell. If you want to pursue the allegation, you do everything you can to protect the FD-1023 and the informant. If you want to fuel a controversy, you release the FD-1023, even at the risk of getting the informant killed.