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New York Times:
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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Washington Post:
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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
Associated Press:
US closes case against ex-FBI boss McCabe with no charges
Discussion: IJR
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Now We Know What Kind of Authoritarian Trump Aspires to Be
Discussion: Raw Story
Lisa Monaco / Just Security:   The Soul of the Justice Department: Who Must Stand Up For It Now
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
DOJ drops probe into former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
Discussion: The Week
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.
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.
Discussion: The Dispatch and Power Line
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Dems will hold mid-March debate in Arizona
Discussion: Associated Press and ABC News
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Bernie Sanders is leading the 2 most important states on Super Tuesday
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
There is another service to the country Biden may need to perform
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Hill
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   This is how narrow a Democrat's path to the nomination will be
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 …
Associated Press:
Michael Avenatti convicted of trying to extort Nike
Discussion: Axios
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 …
Discussion: National Review, Axios and Joe.My.God.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Henry Foy / Financial Times:
US cites reports Oleg Deripaska helped Vladimir Putin launder cash
Discussion: РБК
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.
Discussion: Axios and The Week
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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
Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost and Breitbart
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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
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 …
Discussion: KTLA
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Center for Public Integrity:
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CNN:
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Tom Benning / Dallas Morning News:
Top Texas Republican criticizes Trump's plans to divert $3.8B from military to border wall
ProPublica:
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Democrats are wasting time fighting over policies the Senate will never pass
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
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Discussion: Washington Monthly
Shay Khatiri / The Bulwark:
The Irrelevance of Marco Rubio
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Breitbart and Catholic League
Politico:
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New York Daily News:
Women's wear mogul Peter Nygard accused as vile sexual predator, hosted ‘pamper parties’ …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
A President So Unhinged That Even Bill Barr Says He's Out of Control