Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:30 PM ET, March 17, 2018

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Lawyer: It's Time to End the Mueller Probe … President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd, told The Daily Beast on Saturday morning that he hopes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will shut down the Mueller probe.  —  Reached for comment by email about the firing …
RELATED:
Associated Press:
The Latest: AP learns McCabe kept memos regarding Trump  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the dismissal of Andrew McCabe, a former FBI deputy director (all times local):  —  Andrew McCabe — the former FBI deputy director just fired by the attorney general — kept personal memos regarding President Donald Trump.
CNN:
Mueller has McCabe memos documenting conversations with Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Much like fired FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe wrote memos documenting his conversations with President Donald Trump, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and New York Magazine
Lawfare:
What We Know, and Don't Know, About the Firing of Andrew McCabe  —  Anyone who is confidently pronouncing on the merits of Andrew McCabe's firing Friday night is venturing well beyond the realm of known facts.  —  We certainly understand the instinct to rally to McCabe's defense …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Lawyers Up … Andrew McCabe, formerly the deputy director of the FBI, has lawyered up.  Michael Bromwich of the Bromwich Group confirmed to The Daily Beast that he is representing McCabe for the purposes of the matter that led to his firing.
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
House Republican blasts McCabe firing, says Trump's conduct doesn't ‘bode well’ for GOP  —  During a Saturday morning interview on CNN, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) harshly criticized the Trump administration's decision to fire former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, adding that he doesn't think it bodes well for his party.
Associated Press:
The Latest: Ex-CIA director accuses Trump of moral turpitude  —  The Latest on the dismissal of Andrew McCabe, a former FBI deputy director (all times local):  —  Former CIA Director John Brennan is accusing President Donald Trump of “venality, moral turpitude and political corruption” …
Discussion: Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Lawyer, Citing Andrew McCabe's Firing, Calls for End to Mueller Probe  —  The head of President Donald Trump's personal legal team on Saturday called for the Justice Department to end the special counsel's investigation into possible ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Taking Out His Enemies And Turning Toward Robert Mueller  —  A history professor of mine once attempted to explain to our class why Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, when the virtual impossibility of a land invasion of a country as vast as Russia was already well known in 1941.
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump: ‘Tremendous leaking, lying’ by FBI, DOJ  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the dismissal of Andrew McCabe, a former FBI deputy director (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump says many people are finding out about “tremendous leaking, lying and corruption at the highest levels” …
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Andrew McCabe, a Target of Trump's F.B.I. Scorn, Is Fired Over Candor Questions
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI's Andrew McCabe is fired a little more than 24 hours before he could retire
New York Times:
Trump Lawyer Says Special Counsel Inquiry Should Be Ended
Discussion: israpundit.org
CNN:
Embattled former FBI deputy says he ‘never misled’ Justice investigators
New York Times:
How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions  —  LONDON — As the upstart voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 American midterm elections, it had a problem.  —  The firm had secured a $15 million investment from Robert Mercer …
RELATED:
The Guardian:
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach  —  Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters … The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election team …
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
'I created Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool': meet the data war whistleblower  —  Now, 28-year-old Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate
Discussion: emptywheel
Paul Grewal / Facebook:
Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook  —  We are suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), including their political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, from Facebook.  Given the public prominence of this organization, we want to take a moment to explain how we came to this decision and why.
The Guardian:   Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: ‘We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles’ - video
Axios:
John Kelly's day from hell  —  White House Chief of Staff John Kelly started yesterday with prescient bravado.  —  What we're hearing... The retired four-star Marine general told about 20 West Wing officials — including National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster — in the 8 a.m. senior staff meeting …
RELATED:
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House weighs rehiring fired Trump aide McEntee
Discussion: Raw Story
The Intercept:
Democrats Want to Subpoena Apple to Find Out When Key Administration Officials Downloaded Encrypted Messaging Apps  —  On Wednesday, House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee released a memo laying out the steps they would have taken had they been in charge of the Trump-Russia investigation …
Discussion: Engadget
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 5:30 PM ET, March 17, 2018.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Chris Hayes / New York Times:
What ‘Law and Order’ Means to Trump
Kai Schultz / New York Times:
Indian Children's Book Lists Hitler as Leader ‘Who Will Inspire You’
Arizona Republic:
Woman accused in Tempe mosque burglary has history of arrests
Discussion: CNN and The Root
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Behind the Dodd-Frank Freakout
New York Times:
Who Owns the Vikings? Pagans, Neo-Nazis and Advertisers Tussle Over Symbols
TMZ.com:
Aaron Hernandez Was Tortured By Gay Secret
Discussion: Hollywood Life
 Earlier Items: 
Rafael Olmeda / Sun-Sentinel:
School officials worried about Nikolas Cruz and guns 18 months before mass shooting
Washington Post:
History won't be kind, Republicans
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Secretive religious charity run by top US housing officials raises questions
Hailey Branson-Potts / Los Angeles Times:
In California's rural, conservative north, there are big dreams for cleaving the state
Channel NewsAsia:
Bookmark  —  KABUL: Donald Trump flops over his pink …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Mueller's Investigation Flouts Justice Department Standards
Discussion: Power Line
 

 
From Techmeme:

Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page