Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:40 AM ET, July 22, 2018

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Releases Secret Carter Page Surveillance Documents at Center of Partisan Clash  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has disclosed a previously top-secret set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the onetime Trump campaign adviser who was at the center …
RELATED:
David Kris / Lawfare:
What to Make of the Carter Page FISA Applications  —  The Carter Page FISAs are out via the Freedom of Information Act.  Here are a few observations, relatively brief but still just a bit too long for Twitter.  —  First, a huge amount of information is redacted in these FISA applications …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
DOJ Releases Carter Page FISA Applications  —  In an unprecedented move, the Department of Justice has released 412 pages of top-secret documents related to surveillance conducted against former Trump campaign chairman Carter Page.  —  The documents include an October 2016 application …
Discussion: Breitbart
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Justice Department releases Carter Page surveillance documents  —  New documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page - the former Trump campaign adviser at the center of the Russia investigation and bias allegations at the FBI — were released by the Trump administration on Saturday.
Discussion: ABC News and POLITICUSUSA
Brad Heath / USA Today:
FBI releases FISA records on Carter Page surveillance
Discussion: HuffPost
Jfarrell / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Obtains Carter Page FISA Court Documents
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Kavanaugh: Watergate tapes decision may have been wrong  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested several years ago that the unanimous high court ruling in 1974 that forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, leading to the end of his presidency, may have been wrongly decided.
RELATED:
Tony Mauro / National Law Journal:   Kavanaugh Got a White House Call the Afternoon Kennedy Called It Quits
Washington Post:
In private, Trump vents frustration over lack of progress on North Korea  —  When he emerged from his summit with Kim Jong Un last month, President Trump triumphantly declared that North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat and that one of the world's most intractable geopolitical crises had been “largely solved.”
Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies at 57  —  Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city's vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died.  He was 57.
RELATED:
Pete Wells / New York Times:   Jonathan Gold, Food Critic Who Celebrated L.A.'s Cornucopia, Dies at 57
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:   Jonathan Gold didn't just elevate the art of food writing and restaurant criticism …
New York Times:
Trump Signals Consequences for Michael Cohen Over Secret Recording  —  BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — President Trump lashed out at his longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, on Saturday, suggesting that there could be legal consequences for Mr. Cohen's decision to record a discussion they had two months …
RELATED:
Salt Lake Tribune:
By Ambassador Jon M. Huntsman  —  • In the wake of President Donald Trump's recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Gehrke wrote a column arguing why U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon M. Huntsman, Utah's former governor, should resign his diplomatic post immediately.
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK.  What Comes Next?  —  Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno traveled to London on Friday for the ostensible purpose of speaking at the 2018 Global Disabilities Summit (Moreno has been confined to a wheelchair since being shot in a 1998 robbery attempt).
Discussion: HuffPost, RT, Raw Story and Mother Jones
RELATED:
Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
How Pizzagate Pusher Mike Cernovich Keeps Getting People Fired  —  He just took down director James Gunn.  Now he's using a trollish rumor about a sex tape to go after journalists.  —  Mike Cernovich was celebrating on Friday, at least for a few hours.  Disney had just fired James Gunn …
Vladimir Soldatkin / Reuters:
Lavrov tells Pompeo: free Russian woman accused in U.S. of espionage  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister told his U.S. counterpart on Saturday that a woman arrested in the United States on accusations she was a Russian agent had been detained on “fabricated charges” and should be released.
RELATED:
Steve Holland / Reuters:
U.S. intelligence chief Coats says no disrespect intended toward Trump over Russia summit news
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Conservative columnist: ‘I would take Obama back in a nanosecond’  —  A conservative columnist for The Washington Post on Friday wrote that the current political climate makes him miss former President Obama, saying he would take the Democrat back in a “nanosecond.”
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
There Is a Revolution on the Left.  Democrats Are Bracing.  —  DETROIT — For Rachel Conner, the 2018 election season has been a moment of revelation.  —  A 27-year-old social worker, Ms. Conner voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries, spurning the more liberal Bernie Sanders, whom many of her peers backed.
RELATED:
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:   Democratic socialism rising in the age of Trump
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Michael Cohen privately questions Trump's fitness to be president  —  Friends of Michael Cohen have noticed that since Trump's Helsinki press conference with Vladimir Putin he's been more openly questioning Trump's fitness to be president.  “It's one thing for him [Cohen] …
Discussion: Mediaite and CNBC
Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
The dating swamp: How finding love in DC may be impossible for young Trump and GOP staffers  —  Trying to find love in D.C. can be tricky.  If you're a young Trump administration staffer, it might be near impossible.  —  GOP employees and other right-wingers have been complaining that dating …
Discussion: Raw Story and Instapundit
Washington Post:
Trump's Putin fallout: Inside the White House's tumultuous week of walk-backs  —  Executive time began early on Thursday, just after sunrise.  —  Feeling exasperated and feisty as he awoke in the White House residence, President Trump fired off his grievances on Twitter about how the media had been covering his Helsinki summit.
RELATED:
New York Times:   Trump Doubles Down on Russia. The Spies Shake Their Heads in Disbelief.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 1:40 AM ET, July 22, 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: 
Marc Morano / Climate Depot:
New Gallup Poll: Americans do not even mention global warming as a problem - 36 ‘problems’ cited, but not climate
Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:
Republicans, Don't Just Tweet About It. Do Something.
Natan Sharansky / New York Times:
The Essay That Helped Bring Down the Soviet Union
Courier-Journal:
Report: Rand Paul spent donor money on trips abroad, clothes shopping
Discussion: Raw Story
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Indicted Russian troll factory finds an ally in Trump's SCOTUS nominee
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Fantastic Beasts panel gets political at Comic-Con: ‘Impeach Trump!’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Maya Salam / New York Times:
Women, Stop Volunteering for Office Housework!
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
The Trade Casualties Mount
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Nazis and anti-Semites slip through GOP primaries, causing headaches for party
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Aaron Mak / Slate:
The Sierra Club Declared War on Scott Pruitt—and Won
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Got $250? You Can Go to Sean Spicer's Book Party
Mitchell Armentrout / Chicago Sun-Times:
Mark Janus quits state job for conservative think tank gig after landmark ruling
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Apple removes RFE/RL's Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

 
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