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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Trump would have been charged with obstruction were he not president, hundreds of former federal prosecutors assert  —  More than 370 former federal prosecutors who worked in Republican and Democratic administrations have signed on to a statement asserting special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's findings …
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DOJ Alumni Statement:
STATEMENT BY FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS  —  We are former federal prosecutors.  We served under both Republican and Democratic administrations at different levels of the federal system: as line attorneys, supervisors, special prosecutors, United States Attorneys, and senior officials at the Department of Justice.
Washington Post:
Mnuchin rejects Democrats' demand to hand over Trump's tax returns, all but ensuring legal battle  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday told House Democrats he would not furnish President Trump's tax returns despite their legal request, the latest move by Trump administration officials …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
DOJ moves to fend off Barr contempt vote  —  The Justice Department on Monday tried to head off a contempt of Congress proceeding against Attorney General William Barr, offering House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) the chance to negotiate about the committee's subpoena for special counsel Robert Mueller's unredacted report.
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:   With Mueller on Justice staff, Barr has sway over testimony
BuzzFeed News:   A New Version Of The Mueller Report Has Been Released In Response To A BuzzFeed News Lawsuit
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
AG Bill Barr believes special counsel Robert Mueller should be allowed to testify
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Treasury Department rejects Democrats' request for Trump tax returns
Discussion: Vanity Fair and TheBlaze
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Over 400 former prosecutors say Trump would be indicted if he weren't president
Discussion: Fox News and Scripting News
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
House Judiciary schedules vote to hold Barr in contempt of Congress
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
Nadler Schedules Vote To Hold Barr In Contempt Of Congress
Discussion: Fox News
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:   Ex-prosecutors: Trump would've been charged if not president
New York Times:
U.S. Officials Raise Alarm of Iranian Threat Targeting American Troops in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON — Senior American officials said on Monday that new threats by Iran against United States troops in Iraq were behind the sudden deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group and Air Force bombers to the Persian Gulf.
Discussion: The Guardian
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Jordan Schachtel / TheBlaze:
Former FBI translator — who joined CAIR in an attempt to shut down terror screening database …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Former FBI Linguist Arrested and Indicted on Obstruction Charges
Discussion: CNN and The Gateway Pundit
Alex Conant / FIREHOUSE Strategies:
BREAKING: New early state Democratic primary voter survey results  —  Key Findings:  — The Biden Surge: We asked Democratic primary voters who they favored among the eight highest-profile Democrats who have already announced their candidacies.  According to our survey …
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Elizabeth Thomas / ABC News:
New effort launches to democratically elect the vice president in 2020
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
Gerrard Kaonga / Daily Express:
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to choose UNUSUAL name for baby that UNIFIES the US and UK  —  MEGHAN MARKLE and Prince Harry could be leaning towards a royal baby name that pays tribute to both US and UK history, according to royal expert Victoria Arbiter.  —  Meghan Markle is expected …
HuffPost:
Congress Is Failing  —  So much for checks and balances.  —  WASHINGTON — As House Democrats dither over moving forward with impeachment in a divided government and Senate Republicans are satisfied confirming judges rather than passing legislation, a pressing question is emerging: What the hell is Congress good for, anyway?
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump is trolling us again.  Stop falling for it.  —  President Trump has a superpower.  With just a few taps to the screen of his iPhone, he can transform his staunchest adversaries into . . .  Donald Trump.  —  No one loves a good conspiracy theory as much as the man in the Oval Office.
Chris Joyner / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia mayor under fire for alleged remarks about black job candidate  —  The mayor of Hoschton, a nearly all-white community 50 miles northeast of Atlanta, allegedly withheld a job candidate from consideration for city administrator because he was black, an AJC investigation has found.
Brad Plumer / New York Times:
Civilization Is Accelerating Extinction and Altering the Natural World at a Pace ‘Unprecedented in Human History’  —  WASHINGTON — Humans are transforming Earth's natural landscapes so dramatically that as many as one million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction …
Davis Richardson / Observer:
Mike Pompeo Praises Climate Change in the Arctic as ‘New Opportunities for Trade’  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Finland to discuss the United States' commitment to the Arctic region.  While much of the secretary's speech addressed …
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Michael R. Pompeo / US Department of State:
Rovaniemi, Finland  —  SECRETARY POMPEO: Thank you, Ambassador.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
TN House Speaker's chief of staff admits past drug use, confirms text messages  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada's chief of staff has admitted to using illegal drugs - including snorting cocaine in his legislative offices - in response to text messages obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:   Speaker's chief of staff says he doesn't recall sending racist texts
Timothy / Media Matters for America:
New NRA President Carolyn Meadows: Rep. Lucy McBath won her House race because she is a “minority female”  —  New National Rifle Association President Carolyn Meadows claimed that Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) won her 2018 election to the U.S. House not because of her support for gun violence prevention …
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Facebook:
Removing More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Russia  —  Today we removed multiple Pages, Groups and accounts that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.  We found two separate, unconnected operations that originated in Russia and used similar tactics …
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time  —  When Alexa runs your home, Amazon tracks you in more ways than you might want.  —  Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings?  For most people, the answer is, “Are you crazy?”
Gregory A. Smith / Pew Research Center:
U.S. Jews are more likely than Christians to say Trump favors the Israelis too much  —  In his more than two years as president, Donald Trump has taken significant steps to support Israel, including moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and recognizing the Jewish state's sovereignty over the Golan Heights region.
Matthew Sheffield / The Hill:
Biden takes 32-point lead over Sanders in new 2020 poll  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 32-point lead in the Democratic presidential race in a Hill-HarrisX poll released Monday.  —  Biden won 46 percent in the poll compared to 14 percent for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who came in a distant second place.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Ryan P. Williams / The American Mind:
Algorithms of Suppression  —  ***Update: Google's Acting Director of Political and Stakeholder Outreach got in touch with the Claremont Institute to notify us that the labeling of The American Mind as a “racially oriented publication” was a mistake.  Our re-marketing ad campaign …
Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
Ilhan Omar Won't Be Quiet  —  “Clearly, I am a nightmare ― because [Trump] can't stop really thinking about ways that he can continue to use my identity to marginalize our communities,” said the freshman congresswoman as she went back to her district in Minnesota for recess.
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed News:
Republicans Think They Know How To Win Back Congress In 2020.  Races Like This One Could Screw It Up.  —  STATEN ISLAND — “I didn't vote for you,” Kevin Smith told Rep. Max Rose, after flagging the freshman Democratic congressman down while walking his dog.  “But I gotta give you credit — you worked your ass off.
Stephen Miles / Inkstick:
John Bolton, Pyromaniac  —  Imagine for a minute that your town needs to hire a new fire chief, and after an extensive search, they decide to hire a pyromaniac.  —  But it's not just that this new fire chief likes fires, he loves them, and he happens to be really, really good at starting them.
Discussion: Contemptor
 
 
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Victoria Albert / The Daily Beast:
New York Attorney General Sues Trump Treasury Department, IRS
Discussion: The Week
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
The Free-Speech Thunderdome
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Ronna McDaniel is stuck between her Romney roots and Trump's Republican Party
Discussion: Politico
John Ziegler / Mediaite:
With Their Reaction to Bill Barr's Deception, ‘Conservative’ Media Has Fallen From State-Run to Lobotomized
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump May Redefine Poverty, Cutting Americans From Welfare Rolls
Anna Merlan / Splinter:
Far-Right News Site GotNews Has Filed a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Petition
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
 Earlier Items: 
Axios:
Trump hits all-time high approval rating in Gallup poll
Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
Another Chinese American Trump Donor Tried to Sell Mar-a-Lago Access to Overseas Clients
Discussion: Raw Story
Sophia Ebanks / Washingtonian:
What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right
George A. Sorial / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Was a Bluffer, Not a Fixer
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Major Report Omission Shows Mueller Was Either Incompetent Or A Political Hack
Discussion: Daily Wire and Instapundit
James Reston Jr / New York Times:
Trump's Other Impeachable Offense
Discussion: Washington Post and Hullabaloo
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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