memeorandum: CNN's Cooper Lets Slip: White House Press Corps ‘Agrees’ With Obama (Brent Baker/NewsBusters)

1:00 PM ET, January 10, 2016

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El Chapo Speaks — A secret visit with the most wanted man in the world … It's September 28th, 2015. My head is swimming, labeling TracPhones (burners), one per contact, one per day, destroy, burn, buy, balancing levels of encryption, mirroring through Blackphones, anonymous e-mail addresses …

Ollie Gillman For / Daily Mail:

Sean Penn LED authorities to El Chapo: Actor under investigation after meeting with world's most wanted drug lord while he was on the run in Mexico - unwittingly guiding officials to his lair — Sean Penn met with El Chapo while he was on the run in Mexico last year and the actor is now under investigation

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ABC News:

Marco Rubio Calls Sean Penn's ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Interview ‘Grotesque’

Discussion: New York Times, Business Insider, Mashable, Associated Press, Mediaite and 6abc.com

Rolling Stone:

Watch Two Minutes of El Chapo's Exclusive Interview, Just Before His Recapture — Sean Penn, who tracked down the fugitive kingpin, sent questions; Chapo videotaped his responses in his first-ever interview. — Sean Penn, who tracked down the fugitive kingpin, sent questions …

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Associated Press:

LATEST: MEXICAN OFFICIAL SAYS PENN MEETING HELPED IN CAPTURE — MEXICO CITY (AP) — The latest on Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman who was recaptured six months after he escaped from a maximum security prison: (all times local) — A Mexican law enforcement official …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, CNN and Business Insider

Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders Even in Early Races, Poll Finds — Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in tight Iowa race, with billionaire businessman ahead of field in New Hampshire — Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are deadlocked in both Iowa and New Hampshire three weeks …

Discussion: Politico, ThinkProgress, Bloomberg.com, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post and The Week

Amie Parnes / The Hill:

Clinton's gamble on Muslims — Hillary Clinton is doubling down on slamming Republicans on their anti-Muslim rhetoric at campaign events in both Iowa and New Hampshire. — The attacks are mostly aimed at Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner who has said he would impose a temporary ban …

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Alex Castellanos:
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and the Missile Headed for Grandma's House

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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Struggling GOP contenders relish moment to ignore Trump

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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Economist: GOP may win 47 states in general election — Supply-side economist Arthur Laffer is predicting Republicans will win the White House in a landslide this year, regardless of the nominee. — “I would be surprised if the Republicans don't take 45, 46, 47 states out of the 50,” …

Discussion: Raw Story and Outside the Beltway

Brent Baker / NewsBusters:

CNN's Cooper Lets Slip: White House Press Corps ‘Agrees’ With Obama — Share it Tweet it — Ooops. CNN's Anderson Cooper seemingly let slip on Thursday night what anyone who has a watched a presidential press conference already knows, but journalists are usually loath to admit …

Ingrid Burrington / The Atlantic:

Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country — Once in a while—not quite often enough to be a crisis, but just often enough to be a trope—people in the United States will freak out because a huge number of highly popular websites and services have suddenly gone down.

Ross Douthat / New York Times:

Germany on the Brink — ON New Year's Eve, in the shadow of Cologne's cathedral, crowds of North African and Middle Eastern men accosted women out for the night's festivities. They surrounded them, groped them, robbed them. Two women were reportedly raped.

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John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:

Hillary's EmailGate Goes Nuclear — Does the latest release of Hillary's State Department emails include highly classified U.S. intelligence? — Back in October I told you that Hillary Clinton's email troubles were anything but over, and that the scandal over her misuse of communications …

Discussion: CNN