memeorandum: FILNER RESIGNS, EXIT DEAL OK'D (Most Recent)

11:15 AM ET, August 24, 2013

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FILNER RESIGNS, EXIT DEAL OK'D — Bob Filner announced his resignation Friday as San Diego's 35th mayor following a tumultuous six weeks in which lurid allegations of repeated sexual misconduct against women crippled his ability to lead and turned him into a subject of national ridicule.

Discussion: Voice of San Diego, No More Mister Nice Blog, KPBS San Diego, CBS News, The Moderate Voice, Advocate, Los Angeles Times and CNN

Katie Glueck / Politico:

Filner steps down in deal with San Diego city council — San Diego Mayor Bob Filner stepped down on Friday after the City Council voted to accept his resignation as part of a settlement deal concerning the embattled mayor's future. — Eighteen women have so far accused the Democratic mayor …

Discussion: KGTV-TV, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Moderate Voice and CNN

Washington Free Beacon:

Filner Resigns, Plays the Victim — San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pointed fingers at the “media and their political agents” for executing a “political coup” to oust him from office following allegations of sexual misconduct Friday in his resignation speech. — Filner acknowledged he provided the …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Weekly Standard, Ed Driscoll, National Review and Weasel Zippers

Siobhan Gorman / Washington Wire:

NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests — WASHINGTON—National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency's enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said. — The practice isn't frequent — one official estimated a handful …

Discussion: Informed Comment, Techdirt, Crooks and Liars, Business Insider, Associated Press and Crooked Timber

Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
NSA Analysts Intentionally Abused Spying Powers Multiple Times

Discussion: CNET, New York Times, emptywheel, Hit & Run, Firedoglake, Hillicon Valley, NPR, Little Green Footballs, Techdirt, The Verge and The Raw Story

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
NSA admits analysts purposefully violated citizens' privacy rights

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Prairie Weather, emptywheel and The Switch

Allan Fallow / blog.aarp.org:

Linda Ronstadt Discloses Her Battle With Parkinson's Disease — Legendary singer Linda Ronstadt, 67, told AARP today that she “can't sing a note” because she suffers from Parkinson's disease. Diagnosed eight months ago, Ronstadt began to show symptoms as long as eight years ago.

Discussion: Telegraph, EW.com and KTLA 5

Brian Beutler / Salon:

The right's black crime obsession — There are a few black people up to no good in this country and Fox News is on it! So is Drudge Report. Vigilantly on the lookout, 24 hours a day, for stories about black youths behaving badly. — This isn't a particularly new phenomenon …

Discussion: Right Wing Watch, No More Mister Nice Blog, Crooks and Liars, American Thinker and TMZ.com

Daily Mail:
‘Paula Deen SHOOTS Trayvon Martin’ …

Discussion: VICE, Ed Driscoll and Washington Monthly

Henry Samuel / Telegraph:

France cannot take any more taxes, government admits — France's Socialist government has admitted that the country cannot cope with any further tax rises and promised no more hikes just days ahead of the country's largest ever tax bill. — President François Hollande has enacted …

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Vox Popoli and Hot Air

Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:

Obama: Law School Should Be Two Years, Not Three — “This is probably controversial to say, but, what the heck, I'm in my second term, so I can say it.” — Jacquelyn Martin / AP — BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — President Barack Obama told a town hall crowd in Binghamton, New York …

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama talks race relations in Binghamton

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and CNN

Julie Pace / ABC News:
Obama Says Law School Should Be 2 Years, Not 3

Discussion: Politico, CNN and ProfessorBainbridge.com

Associated Press:

MILITARY JURY CONVICTS SOLDIER IN FORT HOOD ATTACK — You are here — Home » Nidal Malik Hasan » Military jury convicts soldier in Fort Hood attack — FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military jury on Friday convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Week, Weasel Zippers and LifeNews.com

USA Today:
Nidal Hasan found guilty in Fort Hood killings

Discussion: The Week, GMANetwork.com, The PJ Tatler, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Daily Caller, The Raw Story and National Review

Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:

The Suit in the Newsroom — An unusual Times executive— for unusual times. — When Mark Thompson, a former director general at the BBC, was appointed president and CEO of the New York Times Company, the reaction inside the company was a mix of relief and apprehension.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Politico and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Chris Good / ABC News:

50 Years Later: March on Washington Today Honors King … American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead a march down the center of a street in the 1960s. — Getty Images — Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington …

Discussion: Politico

Zack Colman / E2-Wire:

Decision on Keystone in danger of being delayed until 2014 — The State Department's decision on the Keystone XL pipeline is in danger of being pushed into 2014. — State's internal watchdog on Friday said it won't complete until January a review of allegations that the department hired …

Discussion: Weekly Standard and DeSmogBlog

Rush Limbaugh:

Irrelevant? Obama Declares Your Host His #1 Obstacle as EIB Inks Deal with Cumulus, Gets New Station in the Big Apple — RUSH: So I got in here at the usual time after working very early this morning, late into last night on show prep and stuff, and at about ten o'clock I get an e-mail …

Discussion: Deadline.com, NewsBusters, PoliticusUSA and Althouse

Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:

Bradley Manning Is Not a Woman — Dennis Avner was not a tiger, and Bradley Manning is not a woman. Mr. Manning, who upon his sentencing for his role in the WikiLeaks case announced that he desires to live out his days as a woman called Chelsea, is what he is, and no amount of pronoun play …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, The Daily Caller, VICE, ThinkProgress, Althouse, Outside the Beltway and Ed Driscoll

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

NIH Director On Sequestration: ‘God Help Us If We Get A Worldwide Pandemic’ — BETHESDA, Md. — In his first-floor office in the main building of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the institutes, has hung a series of framed pictures.

Discussion: Hullabaloo and Daily Kos