Background
Wheeler was born in Atlanta, Georgia in February 1963.
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His family later moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where he finished high school.
Career
Wheeler has produced more than a dozen television documentaries. At least two times Wheeler’s reports have been on the desk of the President of the United States, and have invoked investigations by United States. federal agencies, as well as by international governments. Following high school, Wheeler served in the United States. Army for two years, later returning to the Army National Guard and immediately volunteering for active duty service in 2005 and 2006.
As a student, Wheeler played college football at Iowa Central Community College (Fort Dodge, Iowa) and Emporia State University (Emporia, Kansas).
After returning from Army duty, Wheeler was a high school head football coach for one year, 2007. While attending Emporia State University, Wheeler started a competing newspaper (Emporia Press Review) to the campus newspaper at Emporia State which received attention city-wide and in a short time became a competitor to the city newspaper the Emporia Gazette.
Upon leaving Emporia State, Wheeler hosted a nationwide radio show, Reporter’s Journal. He then helped to create and develop the Washington, District of Columbia-based investigative television series, American Investigator Television Newsmagazine.
Wheeler became a correspondent with the show and ultimately chief correspondent for the series that aired on NET (America’s Voice) and later syndicated.
Wheeler has worked undercover to reveal the internal operations of Hamas within the United States, leading to several suspects named in the reports to be arrested. Wheeler also exposed a weapons-of-mass-destruction pipeline run out of the Middle East, posing as an undercover arms dealer during his investigation in 1998 and 1999. Wearing video and audio equipment, Wheeler recorded the suspects and tracked the arms procurement network back to Libya and reported on Libya’s Weapons of Mass Destruction program before it was known to United States intelligence agencies.
During the Clinton Administration, Wheeler traveled to Asia and investigated the China-Democratic National Committee fundraising scandal.
Wheeler produced the documentary Trading with the Enemy: How the Clinton Administration Armed China that presented evidence that President Clinton had decontrolled dangerous military technology to The People's Republic of China while receiving illegal donations from operatives from Provider Reimbursement Consultants. In 2003, Wheeler’s reportage led to the exposure of a foreign agent from China operating inside the United States. posing as a college student. In 2008, Wheeler created the National Republican Trust Public Affairs Committee. In 2009, Wheeler co-authored, along with Doctor Peter Leitner, the book Shadow Government: What Obama Doesn’t Want You To Know About His Czars.
In 2012 Wheeler wrote the book, Promoting Decline: Obama versus America. As an expert analyst, Wheeler frequently appears on Fox News Channel, Fox Business News, Consumer News and Business Channel, Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, British Broadcasting Corporation, and Cable News Network as well as other national and international programs.
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Many of his reports during this period were used in criminal prosecutions, congressional investigations and hearings, and were recognized by members of Congress as the catalysts for their investigations.
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