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John Bolton PAC:
STATEMENT OF JOHN R. BOLTON  —  During the present impeachment controversy, I have tried to meet my obligations both as a citizen and as former National Security Advisor.  My colleague, Dr. Charles Kupperman, faced with a House committee subpoena on the one hand, and a Presidential directive …
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New York Times:
Mike Pompeo Is Said to Decide Against Running for Senate in Kansas  —  The secretary of state's decision most likely ends Republicans' hopes of securing a potentially dominant candidate for the open seat in Kansas, his home state.  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday told Mitch McConnell …
New York Times:
Bolton Is Willing to Testify in Trump Impeachment Trial, Raising Pressure for Witnesses  —  The former national security adviser, who has complied with a White House directive not to cooperate in the inquiry, said he would testify if the Senate subpoenaed him.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Romney wants ‘to hear from John Bolton’ in impeachment trial  —  Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said on Monday that he wants to hear from John Bolton after the national security advisor offered to testify in President Trump's impeachment trial if subpoenaed.  —  Romney, leaving a briefing …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP senators introduce resolution to change rules, dismiss impeachment without articles  —  Roughly a dozen GOP senators want to change the Senate's rules and allow for lawmakers to dismiss articles of impeachment against President Trump before the House sends them over.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Murkowski: Decision on impeachment witnesses should wait until after start of trial
Washington Post:
Bolton's willingness to testify in Trump's impeachment trial ramps up pressure on Senate Republicans
Discussion: The Hill
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Pompeo Tells Mitch McConnell He Definitely Won't Run for U.S. Senate
Discussion: HuffPost and The Independent
Washington Post:
Pompeo decides against run for U.S. Senate seat in Kansas
Discussion: The Week and Vanity Fair
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: John Bolton throws an impeachment curveball
Eli Clifton / Responsible Statecraft:
U.S. Media Outlets Fail to Disclose U.S. Government Ties of ‘Iranian Journalist’ Echoing Trump Talking Points … The Trump administration is adamant that Iranians welcome the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed Iraqis were “dancing in the street …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Redstate
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Masih Alinejad / Washington Post:
Don't believe Iranian propaganda about the mourning for Soleimani  —  Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author and women's rights campaigner.  —  Over the next few days, it will be hard to escape footage of huge crowds gathering in Iranian cities to mourn the death of Qasem Soleimani …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's Iran mess is getting worse.  Here's Adam Schiff's idea on what to do about it.  —  The deliberations that went into President Trump's decision to assassinate Iranian general Qasem Soleimani are looking more slapdash and reckless by the hour.  What we're now seeing will require House Democrats …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
One of the worst outcomes with Iran would be for Trump to fail
France 24:   Meant to cripple Iran's clout, US strike unites its allies
Foreign Policy:
Trump Administration Blocks Iran's Top Diplomat From Addressing the U.N. Security Council  —  Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had sought to give a speech condemning the U.S. assassination of Qassem Suleimani.  —  The Trump administration is barring Iran's top diplomat from entering …
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Max Fisher / New York Times:
What Is Trump's Iran Strategy?  Few Seem to Know  —  Friend and foe alike are left puzzled over what President Trump aimed to achieve by killing a top Iranian general, what he might do next or how Tehran could mollify him.  —  When the United States announced on Friday that it had killed …
Rohollah Faghihi / Foreign Policy:
Killing Suleimani Has United Iranians Like Never Before
Daniel Byman / Foreign Policy:
Iran Can Find a New Suleimani
Washington Post:
Trump administration begins drafting possible sanctions against Iraq following Trump's economic threat  —  No decision has been made on whether to implement the penalties, but aides scrambled following presidential warning to Baghdad  —  Senior administration officials have begun drafting sanctions …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Root
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CNN:
Top general says letter suggesting US would withdraw troops from Iraq was a ‘mistake’  —  Washington (CNN)The top US general said Monday a letter suggesting the US would withdraw troops from Iraq was released by mistake and poorly worded, telling reporters “that's not what's happening.”
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
New York Times:
Pentagon Rules Out Striking Iranian Cultural Sites, Contradicting Trump  —  The defense secretary acknowledged that “the laws of armed conflict” prohibited attacking antiquities and said the military had no plans to do so, even though the president declared them targets.
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Albert Burneko / The Outline:
Remember when literally all of this happened already?  —  The same craven motherfuckers who sold us the Iraq War are back on the TV.  —  Albert Burneko Jan—06—2020 11:59AM EST  —  The popular media narrative about the Iraq War holds, in its broad strokes, that the war …
Discussion: American Greatness
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“The March to War Is a Hell of a Drug”: With Trump's Iran Conflict, the Media Is Under a Microscope
Discussion: Slate, Washington Post and The Banter
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg says he doesn't regret backing Iraq war
Discussion: The Week
Mark Moore / New York Post:
Qassem Soleimani's dead body flies coach back to Iran … The remains of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military commander killed in a US drone strike, were apparently placed in a cardboard box and flown out of Iraq across rows of passenger seats, new video shows.
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Tim Stickings / Daily Mail:   Mar-a-Lago in the firing line: Iranian presidential adviser posts list of Donald Trump's properties …
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
One Year in Washington Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reshaped her party's agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders's campaign, and hardly has a friend in town.  —  The corridors of Capitol Hill are a marbled monotony, with Oxford heels clacking around corners indistinguishable from one another …
Lorraine Ali / Los Angeles Times:
Review: Politics reigned at the Golden Globes.  Too bad Ricky Gervais didn't notice  —  Forget the escapist magic of Hollywood.  Nihilism was the name of the game when host Ricky Gervais opened the Golden Globes on Sunday night with a gloom-and-doom monologue so cynical it made the effervescent Tom Hanks scowl.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Lieberman Sad Democrats Aren't Supporting Trump's Iran War  —  President Trump's sudden, massive escalation of the military conflict with Iran has freaked out large segments of the national-security Establishment.  But one person who is not worried at all is Joe Lieberman …
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Here's What Americans Think About Trump's Iran Policy
Discussion: The Hill and FiveThirtyEight
New York Times:
Harvey Weinstein Charged With Rape in Los Angeles as N.Y. Trial Starts  —  Harvey Weinstein entered a Manhattan courtroom for the start of his rape trial on Monday.  Sex crimes charges were also filed in Los Angeles against the film producer. … LOS ANGELES — One woman ran into Harvey Weinstein …
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:   Harvey Weinstein Rape Trial Starts With Fireworks Inside & Outside Courtroom
James McGinnis / Bucks County Courier Times:
Former Bucks Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick dead at 56  —  At age 31, Mike Fitzpatrick was appointed chair of the board of Bucks County commissioners.  By 41, he was elected to the U.S. Congress.  —  Former U.S. Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, who rose from Bucks County commissioner to representing …
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Tess Owen / VICE:
ICE Detention Center Captain Was on a Neo-Nazi Website and Wanted to Start a White Nationalist Group  —  A senior employee at a for-profit immigrant detention center in Nevada was active on the neo-Nazi site Iron March and aspired to establish a white nationalist chapter in his area.
Stephanie Pagones / Fox Business:
Hunter Biden linked to 2016 identity theft involving deceased brother  —  Newly submitted court documents link Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, to an identity theft case from 2016 when he was allegedly being checked into an unidentified Arizona facility.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
How Democrats Can Win Back Obama-Trump Defectors  —  They don't have to lose their souls to do it.  Just the opposite.  —  The authors are political data experts.  —  In the aftermath of Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, analysts fiercely debated the role of the approximately six million voters …
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