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9:25 AM ET, February 16, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald Trump  —  U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.
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New York Times:
White House Plans to Have Trump Ally Review Intelligence Agencies  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to assign a New York billionaire to lead a broad review of American intelligence agencies, according to administration officials, an effort that members of the intelligence community fear …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Office of Director of National Intelligence: We don't withhold intel from Trump  —  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence denied on Wednesday reports that intelligence community officials have withheld intelligence from President Donald Trump.  —  The ODNI statement …
Discussion: ABC News and Wall Street Journal
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump to take breather from White House, hold rally this weekend  —  President Donald Trump is returning to the trail.  —  The president will hold a rally Saturday afternoon at a hangar in Melbourne, Florida.  It will be his first campaign-style rally since his so-called thank-you tour during …
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Grabien News RSS:
After Likening Trump to Hitler, Journalists Upset They're Not Getting Called on for Questions
Discussion: Instapundit
Brad Reed / Raw Story:   CNN's Jim Acosta slams Trump for ducking Russia questions by only calling on right-wing news outlets
Sarah D. / twitchy.com:
'Karma's a b*tch, isn't it'? Sneering MSM lose it when Trump calls on Katie Pavlich, CBN
Discussion: Power Line, Townhall.com and Hot Air
Jon Schwarz / The Intercept:
Carter Page, at Center of Trump Russian Investigation, Writes Bizarre Letter to DOJ Blaming Hillary Clinton  —  Carter Page, briefly a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, sent a peculiar, rambling letter this week to the Department of Justice, asking it to review …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Guardian
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators unnerved by Trump-Russia relationship
Discussion: Politico
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Why Trump Can't Come Clean on Russia
ABC News:
The Note: Trump Dodges Questions on Russia  —  Yesterday, as most days in this White House, was a day of contrasts.  The president didn't answer any questions about the biggest story: his campaign and associates having “repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials,” …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Senate Judiciary Committee requests FBI, DOJ briefing on Michael Flynn
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
Alyssa Canobbio / Washington Free Beacon:
Mattis on Flynn's Resignation: ‘Frankly, This Has No Impact’
Discussion: IJR and Mediaite
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Leaked Emails Show Justice Clarence Thomas's Wife Pushing Travel Ban  —  Justice Clarence Thomas's wife is organizing in support of President Donald Trump's agenda.  And it might make her husband's life a little complicated.  —  In an email sent to a conservative listserv on Feb. 13 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
G.O.P.'s Grand Visions for Congress Now Look Like a Mirage  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans, who craved unified control of the government to secure their aggressive conservative agenda, have instead found themselves on a legislative elliptical trainer, gliding toward nowhere.
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
A Rough 24 Hours for Obamacare  —  The last 24 hours have been one long string of bad news for Obamacare.  Tuesday, the insurer Humana announced that it would be pulling out of the exchanges for next year.  Then we found out that the IRS had responded to Trump's executive order on Obamacare …
Philip Elliott / TIME:
Inside Donald Trump's White House Chaos  —  For two years, Donald Trump mastered the art of disruption.  Name a political precept and he probably broke it during his improbable march to the White House.  But disruption in government—the rulemaker breaking the rules—turns out to be more costly.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Priebus struggles to control fractious White House
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
U.S. ALLIES CONDUCT INTELLIGENCE OPERATION AGAINST TRUMP STAFF AND ASSOCIATES, INTERCEPTED COMMUNICATIONS  —  U.S. DONALD TRUMP RUSSIA  —  As part of intelligence operations being conducted against the United States for the last seven months, at least one Western European ally intercepted …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Hullabaloo
Wall Street Journal:
Senate Majority Leader Takes on High-Wire Balancing Act  —  Mitch McConnell aims to offset his differences with Trump by focusing on shared goals  —  WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, trying to manage an ambitious legislative agenda amid White House turmoil …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Trump Making It ‘Harder’ on Himself Than Necessary, McConnell Says
Discussion: Mediaite
Marty Schladen / El Paso Times:
ICE detains domestic-violence victim in court  —  AUSTIN - Six federal immigration agents went to the El Paso County Courthouse last week and arrested an undocumented woman who had just received a protective order alleging that she was a victim of domestic violence.
CNN:
US Special Ops chief: US government ‘in unbelievable turmoil’  —  WH: Eroded trust leads to Flynn dismissal  — But his remarks come soon after Michael Flynn was forced to step down as national security adviser  —  Washington (CNN)The head of US Special Operations Command said Tuesday …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Business Insider
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Gizmodo Ads Target Potential Trump Leakers  —  Facebook ads steer government agency employees to TellOnTrump.com, which explains how to securely send tips and documents  —  With the Trump administration proving to be a leaky ship in its early days, one news outlet is launching an ad blitz to find the next Deep Throat.
Discussion: Mashable and Axios
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: How The Nation's Spooks Played The Game ‘Kill Mike Flynn’  —  Ted Cruz Tries To Wreck Liz Warren's Legacy With One Sentence  —  Democrats Announce HUGE Show Of No-Confidence In Crucial Senate Race  —  Why Did The FBI Just Release Trump Real Estate Records From The 70s?  —  US |
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
2018's Initial Senate Ratings  —  Democrats start on defense but national environment will be key  —  At first blush, one might think that the Democrats have a decent chance of taking control of the Senate in the 2018 midterm.  After all, midterms frequently break against the president's party …
Discussion: Washington Times
New York Times:
Day Without Immigrants to Hit Washington in the Stomach  —  WASHINGTON — In a city where expense account meals are a central part of power players' lives, some of Washington's best-known restaurants will shutter their doors on Thursday in solidarity with a national campaign to draw attention to the power and plight of immigrants.
Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
Russian spy ship spotted closer to US, near Navy submarine base  —  The Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov on Wednesday morning was spotted 40 miles closer to the U.S. — and not far from a Navy submarine base in Connecticut, a U.S. official told Fox News.  —  The ship was spotted 30 miles south of Groton …
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Eric Posner / New York Times:
Judges v. Trump: Be Careful What You Wish For  —  The opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upholding the temporary restraining order against President Trump's travel ban has received a fair amount of criticism from legal experts.
Discussion: Simple Justice
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
After Election, Trump's Professed Love for Leaks Quickly Faded  —  WASHINGTON — As a candidate for president, Donald J. Trump embraced the hackers who had leaked Hillary Clinton's emails to the press, declaring at a rally in Pennsylvania, “I love WikiLeaks!”
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Zooming in on Washington and Baltimore's ‘snow hole’  —  Call it snow hole central.  In the Mid-Atlantic region and even beyond, the Washington-Baltimore region occupies its own special island of snowless-ness.  —  Washington's snowfall so far this winter?  1.4 inches (normal winter to date is 11.6 inches).
Reid Cherlin / VICE News:
“The world is on fire”  —  In September of 2014 I went to Steve Bannon's house for a party.  I was on assignment from Rolling Stone to embed with the staff of Breitbart.com.  It was supposed to be a way of illuminating the larger world of gonzo right-wing media.  I had never heard of Steve Bannon himself.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher:
Rohrabacher Outraged by Assault on his District Director by ‘Indivisible’ Mob  —  You are here  —  WASHINGTON - Protesters swarming the corridor outside Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's Huntington Beach, CA, office Tuesday knocked unconscious the congressman's district director, who was hospitalized after falling into unconsciousness.
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Trump Has Turned the GOP Into the Party of Eugenics  —  The long-discredited theory is newly relevant in 2017—but maybe it's always been embedded in the Republican platform.  —  “What is meant by improvement?”  Sir Francis Galton asked the Sociology Society of the University of London in 1904.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Daily Kos and Instapundit
 
 
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Discussion: NPR and New York Times
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Hate groups increase for second consecutive year as Trump electrifies radical right
Associated Press:
China awards Trump valuable new trademark
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
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Discussion: The Week and Bloomberg
 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Mattis Delivers NATO a Hard Warning: Pay Up or U.S. Retreats
Discussion: Hit & Run
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McCain announces opposition to Trump's pick for budget chief
Discussion: Politico
Campus Reform:
Student suspended for recording ‘act of terrorism’ prof