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11:15 AM ET, April 4, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
Susan Rice Unmasked  —  Obama's security adviser sought the name of at least one Trump official in intelligence reports.  —  Well, what do you know.  On the matter of who “unmasked” the names of Trump transition officials in U.S. intelligence reports, we now have one answer: Susan Rice, Barack Obama's national security adviser.
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Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
I hope Susan Rice was keeping tabs on Trump's Russia ties.  —  The right-wing media is really excited about the new scoop from Eli Lake, national security columnist for Bloomberg View.  As connoisseurs of President Trump's Twitter feed know, in the alternative reality inhabited by the president …
Discussion: Althouse, AOL and Business Insider
Jay Caruso / RedState:
Dear CNN: Why Is a Former Obama Appointee Reporting on Susan Rice Revelation?  —  Eli Lake at Bloomberg wrote an explosive piece that set the political world on fire for a few hours yesterday.  Lake detailed how Susan Rice, President Obama's National Security Adviser sought to “unmask” …
Nicholas Fondacaro / NewsBusters:
ABC, NBC Cover-Up Revelation Susan Rice Ordered Trump Aides Unmasked, CBS Defends  —  A massive revelation in the alleged surveillance of President Trump's aides broke Monday morning when Bloomberg reported that “[f]ormer National Security Adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons …
New York Post:
Fresh evidence the Russia ‘scandal’ is a Team Obama operation  —  SEE ALSO  —  Do you suspect that the noise over Trump-campaign contacts with the Russians is just a political hit arranged by Obama insiders before they left?  You got fresh evidence of that Monday, with news …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
McMaster staffing NSC with traditional GOP foreign policy hands
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
Former President Barack Obama's national security adviser Susan …
Adam Housley / Fox News:
Susan Rice requested to unmask names of Trump transition officials, sources say
Wall Street Journal:   Trump Urges Scrutiny of Alleged Spying on His Transition Team
Washington Post:
Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel  —  The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladi­mir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish …
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Ali Watkins / BuzzFeed:
A Former Trump Adviser Met With A Russian Spy  —  Carter Page told BuzzFeed News that he had been in contact with at least one Russian spy working undercover out of Moscow's UN office in 2013.  —  NEW YORK — A former campaign adviser for Donald Trump met with and passed documents …
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Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
The House GOP Health Care Bill Is Very Much Alive  —  And it could be disastrous for the sick.  —  WASHINGTON House Republicans still don't have a deal to revive their health care bill, but the White House is laying the groundwork for negotiations to move quickly, meeting individually Monday …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Pence presents new healthcare offer to Freedom Caucus  —  White House officials presented an offer to the conservative House Freedom Caucus on Monday night as they seek to revive the ObamaCare replacement bill.  —  Vice President Mike Pence  —  and other White House officials presented …
Discussion: RedState
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Considers Far-Reaching Steps for ‘Extreme Vetting’  —  Foreigners entering U.S. could be forced to hand over phones, answer questions on ideology; changes could apply to allies like France and Germany  —  Foreigners who want to visit the U.S., even for a short trip …
Washington Post:
Sessions orders Justice Department to review all police reform agreements  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered Justice Department officials to review reform agreements with troubled police forces nationwide, saying it was necessary to ensure these pacts do not work against the Trump …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Sweeping Federal Review Could Affect Consent Decrees Nationwide
Discussion: New York Magazine and Mother Jones
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Mercedes-Benz pulls ads from 'The O'Reilly Factor' — will others follow?  —  O'Reilly accuser: ‘My voice is not for sale’  —  Mercedes-Benz said Monday that it has “reassigned” its advertisements on “The O'Reilly Factor” following a report about five settlements with women who alleged sexual harassment …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
At Fox News, fear and silence amid O'Reilly controversy
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
A (probably futile) plea for sanity in the Senate  —  If you think there isn't enough extremism in American politics, this week's for you.  —  If all goes as expected, the week will conclude with the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as a Supreme Court justice.  This outcome is lamentable.
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Lili Bayer / The Forward:
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka Backed Violent Anti-Semitic Militia  —  As a Hungarian political leader in 2007, Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's chief counter-terrorism adviser, publicly supported a violent racist and anti-Semitic paramilitary militia that was later banned …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:   Wikipedia user ‘Sk-Gorka’ edited info about WH aide Sebastian Gorka's gun charge
Donald J. Trump / Los Angeles Times:
Trump's Authoritarian Vision … Standing before the cheering throngs at the Republican National Convention last summer, Donald Trump bemoaned how special interests had rigged the country's politics and its economy, leaving Americans victimized by unfair trade deals, incompetent bureaucrats and spineless leaders.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
‘It went off the rails almost immediately’: How Trump's messy transition led to a chaotic presidency  —  Two days after the November election, leaders of President Trump's transition team presented his inner circle with more than 100 names of candidates for key Cabinet and other senior positions in the new administration.
Discussion: Axios and No More Mister Nice Blog
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Third Black Employee Sues Fox News for Racial Discrimination  —  Fox News' legal woes just keep getting bigger.  This morning, another black female employee in Fox News' payroll department is joining a racial discrimination lawsuit filed last week by two of her black colleagues.
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives  —  Whatever the truth about Trump and Russia, the speculation surrounding it has become a dangerous case of mass hysteria  —  So Michael Flynn, who was Donald Trump's national security adviser before he got busted talking out of school to Russia's ambassador …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rep. Cummings calls Steve Bannon a ‘white supremacist-type’  —  On the 49th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rep. Elijah Cummings said Tuesday morning that the famed civil rights icon “would be very disappointed” by the political realities of 2017 and especially …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Amna Nawaz / ABC News:
‘Young Turk’ online news host attempting a ‘hostile takeover’ of Democratic Party  —  Cenk Uygur likes to fight.  —  If you've watched him on The Young Turks, the wildly popular online news show he leads, you know that.  It's also clear if you've tracked his rise from public access TV host to internet sensation.
Discussion: Politico
Tea Pain:
Data Patterns Suggest Trump Tower/Spectrum Health Ran a “Stealth Data Machine” With Russia  —  Jared Kushner is currently taking a victory lap, crowin' about his “Stealth Data Machine” that put Donald Trump over the top in the 2016 race.  Let's pry off the lid and peer into the inner-workings of this “Data Machine.”
Madison Park / CNN:
In a Trump-defying move, California's Senate passes sanctuary state bill  —  Sanctuary cities: what you need to know  —  San Francisco (CNN)In defiance of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, the California Senate passed a bill to limit state and local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Tianna Gaines-Turner / Washington Post:
I told Paul Ryan what it's like to be poor.  I wonder if he remembers me now.  —  Poverty isn't a choice, and Americans like me need a strong safety net.  Does the speaker care?  —  In 2014, I testified before U.S. Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), now the House Speaker, at a congressional hearing about poverty in America.
NCAA.org:
NCAA Board of Governors' Position on HB2 Repeal  —  In August of 2016, the NCAA Board of Governors instructed the relocation of NCAA championships scheduled in North Carolina during the 2016-17 academic year because of the cumulative impact HB2 had on local communities' ability to ensure a safe …
BBC:
Syria conflict: ‘Chemical attack’ in Idlib kills 58  —  At least 58 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in north-western Syria, a monitoring group says.  —  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that strikes on Khan Sheikhoun …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Name of Trump admin hire surfaced in Ashley Madison hack  —  The Trump administration has hired the former executive director of the Louisiana Republican Party whose name turned up on a list of accounts released in the 2015 hack of the cheating website Ashley Madison.
Discussion: AOL
 
 
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AP Exclusive: Border wall contractors brace for hostile site
Wall Street Journal:
Boeing Agrees to First Plane Sale to Iran Under Trump
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
Sam Thielman / The Guardian:
Tim Berners-Lee: selling private citizens' browsing data is ‘disgusting’
Discussion: Raw Story and The Verge
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
At Trump's EPA, going to work can be an act of defiance
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
CNN Had a Problem. Donald Trump Solved It.
Discussion: TVNewser
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. Ill-Prepared to Stop Widespread Russian Information Warfare
Discussion: Instapundit
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘If I have to get a lawyer, I will’: Trump voter upset the border wall will put her house on Mexico side
Discussion: The Root
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
What does the federal government spend your tax dollars on? Social insurance programs, mostly
 Earlier Items: 
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Sharply Fewer Democrats Say They Are Proud to Be Americans
Discussion: Daily Wire
Harry Yorke / Telegraph:
Revealed: Self-styled ‘grammar vigilante’ corrects badly punctuated shop signs in dead of night
Daniel Barnes / NBC4 Washington:
Trump National Golf Club Vandalized, Course Spray-Painted
Discussion: AOL, The Gateway Pundit, IJR and twitchy.com
Mike Adams / Townhall.com:
Get Back in the Kitchen and Bake Me Another Petition!
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Democrats recruit veterans early for 2018 battle
Discussion: Political Wire
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Fox News Cancels Red Eye