Marcy Wheeler's wealth of knowledge

Long before Edward Snowden leaked documents showing that the government was collecting every American’s phone records, Marcy Wheeler knew something fishy was going on.

She was one of a handful of people who in 2009 suspected the government was using the Patriot Act to collect Americans’ personal records in bulk. On Jun 5, 2013, Snowden proved her right.

You’ve probably never heard of Wheeler, a Michigan blogger who plies her trade far away from the closed world of Washington DC, but her work enables journalists, lawyers, advocates, and experts to unmask the government’s secret spying apparatus.