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12:40 PM ET, February 10, 2018

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Washington Post:
As Jared Kushner's security clearance is delayed, White House hesitates to act on others with possible problems … White House Counsel Donald McGahn and other Trump administration officials have been so vexed by Jared Kushner's months-long inability to obtain a permanent security clearance …
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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Second White House official departs amid abuse allegations, which he denies … A White House speechwriter resigned Friday after his former wife claimed that he was violent and emotionally abusive during their turbulent two-and-a-half-year marriage — allegations that he vehemently denied, saying she was the one who victimized him.
Washington Post:
A second White House aide has resigned amid past domestic abuse allegations, which he denies  —  The abrupt departure of speechwriter David Sorensen comes after his former wife claimed that he was violent and emotionally abusive during their turbulent two-and-a-half-year marriage — allegations that he vehemently denied.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House lurches into crisis mode, again  —  Chief of staff John Kelly was forced to publicly insist he's remaining in his job as he tried for a fourth day to contain the damage following allegations that a senior aide abused two ex-wives.  —  The White House lurched into full-scale crisis mode …
Discussion: Breitbart, Vox, Washington Post and The Week
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Hope Hicks: The quiet one in Trump's White House suddenly feels the glare … In a White House full of noise, she is the quiet one.  Not the TV gladiator, not press room warrior, not a general.  Certainly not the Mooch.  —  Hope Hicks, the discreet aide always at President Trump's side whose desk …
Washington Post:
‘Very turbulent’: Trump and White House consumed with turmoil amid abuse allegations
Wall Street Journal:
John Kelly and Hope Hicks Face Scrutiny as Trump Questions Response to Abuse Allegations
Discussion: Fox News
CNN:
Dozens of Trump officials still lack full security clearance
Discussion: Boing Boing
Peter Baker / New York Times:   Amid Turmoil From Washington to Wall Street, a Surprisingly Passive President
Luis Alonso Lugo / Talking Points Memo:   WH Website Still Lacks Spanish Version A Year Into Trump Admin
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Top White House official to leave West Wing to become drug czar
Discussion: Raw Story and Jezebel
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Sources: Chief of Staff John Kelly expressed to President Trump willingness to resign
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Trump Blocks Release of Memo Rebutting Republican Claims  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump blocked on Friday the release of a classified Democratic memo rebutting Republican claims that top federal law enforcement officials had abused their surveillance powers in spying on a former Trump campaign aide …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The White House's broken promise on the Democratic memo  —  After the House Intelligence Committee voted this week to release a Democratic rebuttal to the Nunes memo, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders assured us that the White House would be evenhanded.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Philip Ewing / NPR:
The Russia Investigations: Democrats Try To Counterattack But Lose A Key Weapon
Discussion: Politico and The Guardian
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:   Grassley-Graham Memo Affirms Nunes Memo — Media Yawns
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Trump will not release Democrats' memo on FBI surveillance
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Week
Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
American Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Who Wanted to Sell Material on Trump  —  BERLIN — After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted …
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James Risen / The Intercept:
U.S. Secretly Negotiated With Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents — and the Russians Offered Trump-Related Material, Too  —  The United States intelligence community has been conducting a top-secret operation to recover stolen classified U.S. government documents from Russian operatives, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Balloon Juice
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Smearing of Woody Allen  —  Soon after Rolling Stone published a sensational — and, as it turned out, false — account of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, Richard Bradley, the editor of Worth magazine, suspected that something was amiss.
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:   One Honorable American's Love of Trump
Katie Benner / New York Times:
No. 3 Official at the Justice Department Is Stepping Down  —  WASHINGTON — Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the country's top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump, according to two people briefed on her decision.
Associated Press:
Pence upstaged by 2 Koreas' efforts to warm ties  —  Vice President Mike Pence's efforts to keep North Korea from stealing the show at the Winter Olympics proved to be short-lived, quickly drowned out by the images of the two Koreas marching and competing together, as the South appeared …
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Bloomberg:
Kim Jong Un Invites South Korea's Moon to Summit in Pyongyang
Discussion: BloombergQuint
Michael Levenson / BostonGlobe.com:
Rob Porter was ‘quintessential golden boy’ from Belmont now accused of abuse  —  On campus, he was known as the quintessential golden boy, the clean-cut son of a Harvard professor who would follow in his father's footsteps by earning a Rhodes scholarship and working in the White House.
Discussion: CNN, The Federalist and BBC
CNN:
Woodward and Bernstein: Trump's Russia response ‘eerily similar’ to Nixon's leading up to Saturday Night Massacre  —  Woodward and Bernstein adapted this piece from their 1976 book, “The Final Days.”  This excerpt is appearing both in The Washington Post and on CNN.  —  (CNN)We're here again.
Discussion: Mediaite
James Lankford / Wall Street Journal:
Impose Sanctions on Turkey  —  Use the Magnitsky Act to answer the imprisonment of another American on trumped-up charges.  —  A Turkish court Thursday sentenced Serkan Golge, a dual Turkish-American citizen, to 7½ years in prison on trumped-up charges of membership in a terrorist organization.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Bannon: ‘Anti-patriarchy movement’ will ‘undo ten thousand years of recorded history’  —  The ups and downs of the Bannon insurgency  —  Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, is quoted in a new edition of the book “Devil's Bargain” as sharply criticizing what he terms the …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
 
 
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Thomas Binion / The Hill:
Alarm bells are ringing on the federal debt
Discussion: Hit & Run
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Israel Attacks Targets in Syria After Iranian Drone Enters Israeli Airspace and Jet Crashes
Discussion: Power Line and Axios
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump's man on the Hill tries not to make promises he can't keep on immigration
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance
David Montero / Los Angeles Times:
Vegas shooter had anti-anxiety drugs in his system, autopsy shows, but motive behind massacre remains a mystery
Julian E. Zelizer / The Atlantic:
What Trump-Era Democrats Can Learn From LBJ
Washington Post:
Massive infusion of spending ends era of restraint for federal agencies, Pentagon
 Earlier Items: 
Dana Houle / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi is incredibly underrated
Joel Rubin / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. federal judge rules that a key tool in Trump's immigration crackdown effort is illegal
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
White House Chief of Staff Is a Longtime Defender of the Accused
Discussion: The Guardian and Vox
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Poll: Most say they believe FBI over Trump
Discussion: Shareblue Media
VICE:
When Your Tweet About Drowning Republicans Ends Up on ‘FOX & Friends’
Discussion: Fox News Insider and Sarah Palin
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox News Host Questions Why Rubio's ‘Covering for’ Mark Warner: ‘How Deep Is the Deep State?’
Roll Call:
Minnesota Rep. Rick Nolan Won't Seek Re-Election
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
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