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9:40 AM ET, December 17, 2020

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Thomas P. Bossert / New York Times:
I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump.  We're Being Hacked.  —  The magnitude of this national security breach is hard to overstate.  —  Mr. Bossert was the homeland security adviser to President Trump and deputy homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush.
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CISA:
Joint Statement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)  —  Over the course of the past several days, the FBI, CISA, and ODNI have become aware of a significant and ongoing cybersecurity campaign.
Discussion: The Sun and Slate
Politico:
How suspected Russian hackers outed their massive cyberattack
Politico:
Pence prepares to confirm Trump's loss — and then leave town  —  On Jan. 6, Vice President Mike Pence will oversee final confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's victory.  —  Then he'll likely skip town.  —  As vice president, Pence has the awkward but unavoidable duty of presiding …
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Margaret Carlson / The Daily Beast:
Mike Pence's Mission Is Slavish Devotion Every Day Til Jan. 20
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Horn / USA Today:
Texas lawsuit was the last straw.  I'm leaving the Republican Party: Former NH GOP chair  —  The GOP has ransacked our Constitution and attempted a coup.  The Republican Party of Lincoln is no more.  I'm switching my registration to independent.  —  My mother spent a lifetime trying to teach me to stand for what is right.
Discussion: The Hill and The Texas Tribune
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David Siders / Politico:
'Everything's great': GOP ditches election post-mortems  —  Democrats in Texas and New Hampshire are forming committees to examine the party's failings in last month's election.  Less formal autopsies are underway in states across the country.  —  But the party that lost the presidential election isn't soul-searching at all.
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Politico:
Never-Trump movement splinters as its villain heads for the exit  —  The defeat of Donald Trump might have been the easy part for never-Trump Republicans.  Next up: taking on the more elusive target of Trumpism with their boogeyman gone from office.  —  More than a dozen leaders …
Kyle Smith / National Review:
Jill Biden's Doctorate Is Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage  —  Her dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge.  —  You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician.
Discussion: Arizona Mirror
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Obsessed Tucker Carlson Calls Jill Biden ‘Illiterate’ and ‘Our National Shame’  —  This was the third straight night that Carlson devoted to insulting the soon-to-be first lady over her use of the “Dr.” title because she has a doctorate in education.  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson obsessed …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Wrap
CNN:
Biden's search for an attorney general complicated by ‘competing questions’  —  Washington (CNN)The deliberations among President-elect Joe Biden's tight circle of advisers about whom he should nominate as attorney general have emerged as some of the more complicated of the transition …
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CNN:
'It's turned crazy': Inside the scramble for Trump pardons  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump may not be willing to accept his term is ending, but as the clock ticks down on his time in office, hundreds of his allies — including some of his closest business associates …
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Axios:
O'Malley Dillon's line that GOP are “f-ckers” worries some Biden aides  —  Some advisers close to President-elect Joe Biden are frustrated over a Glamour magazine interview in which incoming White House deputy chief of staff Jen O'Malley Dillon referred to Republicans on Capitol Hill as “f*ckers.”
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Joe Biden may be tougher than the GOP expects
Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg, IJR and Mic
New York Times:
Alaska Health Worker Had a Serious Allergic Reaction After Pfizer's Vaccine  —  The person had no history of allergies.  Two similar reactions happened last week in Britain.  —  WASHINGTON — A health care worker in Alaska had a serious allergic reaction after getting Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine …
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Sarah Owermohle / Politico:
FDA says Pfizer vaccine vials hold extra doses, expanding supply
Katie Thomas / New York Times:   Hospitals Discover a Surprise in Their Vaccine Deliveries: Extra Doses
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary is something Frank Kameny could have only dreamed of  —  President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of Pete Buttigieg as the next transportation secretary made me think of the man who fought for the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Ind., but would never meet him.
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Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg is right. Airports are romantic.
Discussion: CNN and USA Today
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
We've finally identified the source of fraud in the 2020 election.  It's Ron Johnson.  —  Finally, significant fraud has been identified in the 2020 election.  It is being perpetrated by Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin.  —  President Trump lost the election.  He lost the recounts.
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Michelle Ruiz / Vogue:
How Savannah Guthrie and Kristen Welker Won the 2020 Election Coverage  —  FIVE MINUTES before NBC called the 2020 election for Joe Biden, Kristen Welker was sprinting.  After rising at 4 a.m. and coanchoring Weekend Today in New York, the White House correspondent darted into a car …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Dominion demands that Sidney Powell retract ‘baseless and false allegations’ about voting machines.  —  Dominion Voting Systems sent a blistering letter on Wednesday night to the right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell, demanding that she publicly retract her “wild, knowingly baseless and false accusations” …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Interior Secretary Bernhardt tests positive for covid-19  —  Two other top Interior officials contracted the virus last month  —  Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt, 51, tested positive for covid-19 Wednesday, the department spokesman confirmed after an inquiry from The Post.
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Trump's Latino gains suggest a key progressive theory of politics is wrong  —  White backlash or education polarization?  —  1 hr ago  —  Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson in their widely-cited Trump book write, for example, that: “To advance an unpopular plutocratic agenda …
Washington Examiner:
Raphael Warnock's embrace of anti-Semite Farrakhan is disqualifying for Senate service  —  It was once said of a famously vulnerable Senate candidate that, with respect to the opposition research that could be used against her in a campaign, “there's a haystack of needles.”
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
US Joint Chiefs chairman meets with Taliban on peace talks  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The top U.S. general held unannounced talks with Taliban peace negotiators in the Persian Gulf to urge a reduction in violence across Afghanistan, even as senior American officials in Kabul warned …
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Long shot Newsom recall drive gets serious in California  —  There's a perfect storm of political developments that could make this latest attempt the one to take very seriously.  —  After banging at the recall door unsuccessfully five times, conservative drives to oust Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom may suddenly be getting traction.
Nikki Haley / Washington Post:
Biden shouldn't reject all Trump's foreign policies.  Here are three he should keep.  —  Nikki Haley was governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2019.  —  At the United Nations, I often found that many countries agreed with U.S. policies …
Discussion: Fox News and HotAir
Washington Post:
Biden order to halt border wall project would save U.S. $2.6 billion, Pentagon estimates show  —  The U.S. government would save about $2.6 billion if President-elect Joe Biden halts construction on the border wall project on his first day in office, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates reviewed by The Washington Post.
Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
New Supreme Court filing includes blatantly wrong information about Michigan  —  A long-shot legal effort relying on conspiracy theories and inaccurate analyses to argue President Donald Trump actually won Michigan included additional blatantly false information in a new filing with the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
Discussion: Law & Crime and Business Insider
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
The Swalwell Timeline  —  Did a communist spy know the congressman was about to assume oversight of the CIA?  —  Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) hasn't been willing to say much about his relationship with an alleged spy for the Chinese Communist Party, citing a need to protect classified information.
Jeff Schogol / Task & Purpose:
Vet groups call on Congress to investigate Dan Crenshaw's alleged smearing of a sexual assault victim  —  Ten veterans service organizations are calling on Congress to investigate whether Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) tried to discredit a woman who said she was sexually assaulted in September 2019 …
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump states shut out COVID headlines as virus rages  —  States that voted for President Trump tend to have high coronavirus caseloads compared to how much COVID content they read online, while the opposite is true of states that voted for President-elect Biden, according to exclusive data …
 
 
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Norman Ornstein / Washington Post:
Democrats' House majority is razor-thin. Any glitch could spell disaster.
Discussion: Associated Press
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Joe Wilson Announces COVID Diagnosis After Speaking on House Floor
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden Was Due To Receive ‘Significant’ Payments From Chinese Private Equity Firm Starting In 2019, Emails Show
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Emmy winner Andrew Cuomo's no good, horrible, very bad month
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House intends to continue pursuing McGahn testimony in 2021
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Facebook reverses postelection algorithm changes that boosted news from authoritative sources.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Glitch in Trump's Plan to Live at Mar-a-Lago: A Pact He Signed Says He Can't
Andrew Cain / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
State panel recommends Barbara Johns statue to replace Lee at U.S. Capitol
New York Times:
People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong.
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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