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5:35 AM ET, December 12, 2016

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Spencer Ackerman / The Guardian:
Intelligence figures fear Trump reprisals over assessment of Russia election role  —  Legislators overseeing the CIA and other intelligence agencies have told the Guardian they will be vigilant about reprisals from Donald Trump over an internal assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to ensure Trump's victory.
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New York Times:
C.I.A. Judgment on Russia Built on Swell of Evidence  —  WASHINGTON — American spy and law enforcement agencies were united in the belief, in the weeks before the presidential election, that the Russian government had deployed computer hackers to sow chaos during the campaign.
Bill Flanagan / CBS News:
John McCain doesn't know what to make of Trump's Russia hacking response  —  Responding to intelligence officials' report that Russia tried to influence the U.S. presidential election in favor of President-elect Donald Trump, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Arizona) …
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Palin: ‘I can keep an eye’ on Russia  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tweeted Sunday about a secret CIA report that determined Russia intervened in the U.S. presidential election to help Donald Trump  —  win.  —  “Russia's getting out of hand?  So says the defeated,” Palin tweeted, appearing to question the CIA report.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
TRUMP: I'm a ‘smart person,’ don't need intelligence briefings every single day  —  President-elect Donald Trump brushed off concerns that he's not participating in the traditional daily intelligence and national security briefings that presidents hold every day.
Discussion: TheBlaze, Mashable and alan.com
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Trump Says Democrats Made Up Russian Hacking As An ‘Excuse’ For His ‘Major Landslide Victory’
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Brent Johnson / New Jersey Online:
Christie turned down several jobs in Trump administration, sources say  —  TRENTON — President-elect Donald Trump offered Gov. Chris Christie numerous positions in his incoming administration, but the New Jersey governor turned them down, two sources with knowledge of Trump's transition efforts told NJ Advance Media.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Former ambassador to Russia: Putin wanted ‘revenge’ against Clinton  —  Russia interfered in the U.S. elections to get revenge against Hillary Clinton  —  , a former U.S. ambassador to the Kremlin said Sunday.  —  Michael McFaul, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014 …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Bernstein says Trump's lies worse than Nixon's  —  Carl Bernstein, whose reporting broke open the Watergate scandal that led to former President Nixon's resignation, said Sunday that Nixon's lies were nothing compared to Donald Trump  —  “Trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rand Paul threatens to block Bolton nomination  —  Sen. Rand Paul is threatening to block President-elect Donald Trump's likely pick of John Bolton as the No. 2 in the State Department.  —  The Kentucky Republican, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, could stop …
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Chris Wallace Asks Trump: Why Pick Business Exec. Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State?
Discussion: The Week and alan.com
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump says ‘nobody really knows’ if climate change is real  —  President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is real and that he is “studying” whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago.
Discussion: Political Wire
Steve Coll / New Yorker:
Rex Tillerson, from a Corporate Oil Sovereign to the State Department  —  The news that President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Rex Tillerson, the chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, as his Secretary of State is astonishing on many levels.
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader Richard Spencer  —  According to Twitter, Spencer was suspended on a technicality: violating a multiple accounts statute.  The suspension reversal highlights Twitter's struggles with policy enforcement in a post-Trump era.
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Tim Cook, Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg — and maybe even Jeff Bezos — are going to Trump's tech summit next week  —  The gathering will take place Wednesday in New York.  —  Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg are among the small group of top tech leaders …
 
 
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Biden: Trump ran ‘most vicious’ campaign he's ever seen
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal happens, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more

Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: Nicholas Carlson, who has been the global editor-in-chief of Business Insider since 2017, is expected to leave the publication later this summer
 
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