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Barr Installs Outside Prosecutor to Review Case Against Michael Flynn, Ex-Trump Adviser — Amid turmoil in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, the attorney general has also sent outside prosecutors to review other politically sensitive cases. — WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr …
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Justice Dept. won't charge Andrew McCabe, the former FBI official who authorized the investigation of President Trump — The Justice Department will not bring charges against former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe for lying to investigators about a media disclosure, according to people familiar …
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Andrew McCabe, Ex-F.B.I. Official, Will Not Be Charged in Lying Case — The decision to decline charges appears to be a move to distance the Justice Department from President Trump, who has long attacked Mr. McCabe. — WASHINGTON — Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director …
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Carol E. Lee / NBC News:
Justice Department opens inquiry into FBI interview at heart of Flynn's guilty plea — AG Barr has asked a U.S. attorney to lead the inquiry. Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements during the interview, but wants to withdraw plea. — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department recently opened …
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Redstate, CNBC and Law & Crime
Andrew C. McCarthy / The Hill:
Roger Stone's sentence: How the judge will really decide to ‘lock him up’ — Attorney General Bill Barr is undoubtedly right: The president's ill-tempered tweets about pending criminal cases undermine the Justice Department's mission. The rule of law depends not only on the reality …
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Sally Yates / Washington Post:
Trump thinks the Justice Department is his personal grudge squad — Sally Yates served as deputy attorney general from January 2015 to January 2017. — The imperative of Justice Department independence from political influence has deep roots. After the Watergate scandal …
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Please stop tweeting, Mr. President. It's making it much more difficult for me to do your bidding!
Please stop tweeting, Mr. President. It's making it much more difficult for me to do your bidding!
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Washington Post:
Justice Department has directed outside prosecutors to review Michael T. Flynn's case …
Justice Department has directed outside prosecutors to review Michael T. Flynn's case …
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Associated Press:
Trump ignores AG Barr's request to stop tweeting about DOJ
Trump ignores AG Barr's request to stop tweeting about DOJ
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
People Aren't Buying William Barr's Rebuke Of Donald Trump
People Aren't Buying William Barr's Rebuke Of Donald Trump
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Right's Big Lie About Roger Stone
The Right's Big Lie About Roger Stone
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Now We Know What Kind of Authoritarian Trump Aspires to Be
Now We Know What Kind of Authoritarian Trump Aspires to Be
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Barr's ABC News interview is deeply damning. Here's what must come next.
Barr's ABC News interview is deeply damning. Here's what must come next.
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CNN:
Barr privately ordered re-examination of Michael Flynn's case, US officials say
Barr privately ordered re-examination of Michael Flynn's case, US officials say
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
DOJ drops probe into former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
DOJ drops probe into former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
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Rory Appleton / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Sanders holds lead heading into Nevada's Democratic caucuses, poll finds — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders leads the presidential field by a solid margin among likely Democratic caucusgoers heading into Nevada's four-day early voting period, but all six of the candidates actively campaigning …
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Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Bernie Sanders leaps to first among Texas Democrats in latest UT/TT Poll — Sanders now leads the Democratic presidential candidates among Texas voters, but Donald Trump maintains a slight lead over each of the top Democrats in the race, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows Sanders's strength going head-to-head with rivals — A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat each of the other Democratic presidential candidates in a one-on-one race — in many instances by double-digit margins.
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Dems will hold mid-March debate in Arizona
Dems will hold mid-March debate in Arizona
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Bernie Sanders is leading the 2 most important states on Super Tuesday
Bernie Sanders is leading the 2 most important states on Super Tuesday
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
There is another service to the country Biden may need to perform
There is another service to the country Biden may need to perform
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NBC News:
Michael Avenatti guilty on all counts in Nike extortion case — Avenatti was arrested in March, about 15 minutes after tweeting that he had scheduled a press conference to “disclose a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by @Nike.” — Lawyer Michael Avenatti …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti found guilty in Nike extortion trial — Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti was convicted of all three charges related to his efforts to extort up to $25 million from athletic apparel giant Nike. — The verdict in Manhattan federal court came two years …
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New York Times:
Border Patrol Will Deploy Elite Tactical Agents to Sanctuary Cities — Agents from a special tactical team that normally confronts smugglers on the border are being sent to sanctuary cities across the country. — The Trump administration is deploying law enforcement tactical units …
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Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Readied Sanctions on Russian Oligarch's Associates—Then Mysteriously Backed Off — “Somebody overruled [Treasury], essentially,” one sanctions expert said. “That's the most likely scenario.” — Something strange happened in mid-December involving Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch.
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Henry Foy / Financial Times:
US cites reports Oleg Deripaska helped Vladimir Putin launder cash
US cites reports Oleg Deripaska helped Vladimir Putin launder cash
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Washington Post:
She pushed Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement and roll back environmental rules. And she's returning to EPA as chief of staff. — One of EPA's first Trump appointees, Mandy Gunasekara has run a ‘pro-Trump nonprofit’ since leaving the agency a year ago.
Adam Bienkov / Business Insider:
Boris Johnson has cancelled his planned trip to the White House after Trump slammed the phone down on him in a moment of ‘apoplectic’ fury — UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cancelled his planned trip to meet Donald Trump next month after a furious row between the two men.
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New York Times:
We Checked the Iowa Caucus Math. Here's Where It Didn't Add Up. — Caucus volunteers tally the final round votes. Then they divide the county delegates among the viable candidates based on their vote shares. — They must round down or up to the nearest whole number to award the delegates.
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Culinary Union officials face profanity-laced attacks after scorecard says Sanders would ‘end’ their health care — Geoconda Arguello-Kline, left, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Union announced that the culinary will not endorse a Democratic presidential candidate in the primary.
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Jacqueline Feldscher / Politico:
Army won't investigate Vindman over impeachment testimony, top leader says — The Army will not investigate Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council staffer who testified in the president's impeachment investigation, the service's top civilian said Friday.
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Top Democrat blasts Trump's ‘false’ justification for Soleimani killing — The administration highlighted the 2002 authorization passed ahead of the invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
White House ‘1264 Notice’ and Novel Legal Claims for Military Action Against Iran
White House ‘1264 Notice’ and Novel Legal Claims for Military Action Against Iran
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
An Unrestrained Trump May End Up Trapping Himself — The Senate pushes back on war powers and a Fed nominee, while a White House purge might undercut the president's clout. — I'm not sure what the conventional wisdom is about the current health of Donald Trump's presidency …
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Associated Press:
Facebook reverses on paid political messages that aren't ads — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook decided Friday to allow a type of paid political message that had sidestepped many of the social network's rules governing political ads, in a reversal that highlights difficulties tech companies …
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
General John Kelly, Trump Stooge, Is No Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, Patriot — Vindman saw something, and said something. Kelly saw plenty, and kept it to himself for more than two years. — BEAST INSIDE — John Kelly's half-assed, just-the-tip critique of Donald Trump …
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Jo Craven McGinty / Wall Street Journal:
How Many People Might One Person With Coronavirus Infect? — Researchers in U.K. offer clues as to how contagious Covid-19 virus could be — When an infection erupts the way coronavirus has exploded in Wuhan, China, and elsewhere in the world, public-health experts try to gauge the potential …
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