[5][6] In her online "Prologue" to Anatomy of Deceit, she observes that the feuilleton essay is an important medium for expressing opinions which might ordinarily be censored due to government displeasure, citing recent examples such as former Czechoslovakian dissident and former Czech President Václav Havel.

Wheeler makes occasional contributions to the commentary and analysis section of The Guardian,[7] Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Democracy Now!, and Michigan Liberal.

[11] In his column/blog White House Watch, published in The Washington Post, Dan Froomkin cited the efforts of FiredogLake in live-blogging the Libby trial as "essential reading" (page 3).

[16] Wheeler became a witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of President Donald Trump's possible connections to Russia after outing one of her sources to the FBI in 2017.

Due to her extensive research about the outing of Valerie Plame and her coverage of the Libby trial as a blogger, Wheeler was a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

[22] Wheeler received a 2009 Sidney Hillman Foundation Journalism Award,[23] in the blog category, cited for her body of work, including 2009 coverage of the auto industry crisis, and the evolution of the George W. Bush administration's justification and practice of torture (so-called "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques").