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2:20 PM ET, August 18, 2018

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New York Times:
White House Counsel Has Cooperated Extensively With Mueller's Obstruction Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside the security clearance revolt  —  Several wanted to fiddle with the punctuation, some wanted to add nice things about John Brennan; others thought it would be wiser to pare them back.  —  But in 12 hours, a couple of former CIA senior aides pulled off a first in American history.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Revoking Brennan's Security Clearance: The Right Thing, Even if for the Wrong Reason  —  It's right because he is irresponsible and untrustworthy and has politicized intelligence.  —  I do not share my friend David French's theoretical constitutional concerns about the president's revocation …
Kori Schake / War on the Rocks:
McRaven's Rousing Protest: Are Civil-Military and Democratic Norms in Tension?  —  President Donald Trump withdrawing the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan has set off a cascade of former professionals from the military and intelligence community condemning the president's public …
Discussion: KTLA, CNN and The Guardian
CBS Los Angeles:
ICE Detains Man Driving Pregnant Wife To Hospital To Deliver Baby  —  SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA) — A newborn is without his father Friday after immigration agents detained the man as he was taking his wife to deliver the baby.  —  “I feel very bad right now,” Maria del Carmen Venegas told CBS2 News …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Netflix's ‘Classless’ Cancellation of Michelle Wolf's ‘The Break’ … Well, that was fast.  On Friday, Netflix quietly pulled the plug on The Break with Michelle Wolf, one of the only “late-night” shows on “television” hosted by a female comedian, just three months after it premiered.
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Kofi Annan, Diplomat Who Redefined the U.N., Dies at 80  —  Kofi Annan, a soft-spoken and patrician diplomat from Ghana, who became the seventh secretary general of the United Nations, projecting himself and his organization as the world's conscience and moral arbiter despite bloody debacles …
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Stanley Meisler / Washington Post:
Kofi Annan, former U.N. secretary general, dies at 80
Discussion: The Week, CNN and Outside the Beltway
Joshua Posaner / Politico:
Kofi Annan, former UN chief, dies aged 80
Associated Press:
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dies at age 80
Discussion: PinkNews
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
National debt jumps $500 billion in less than six months  —  The U.S. national debt has increased by more than half a trillion dollars in less than six months, amid predictions that the U.S. is on the verge of returning to another explosion in government borrowing.
The Daily Beast:
Alleged Russian Agent Marina Butina Moved to Virginia Jail, Unclear Why … Maria Butina, the Russian national accused of acting as a Kremlin agent in the United States, was abruptly moved from a jail in Washington to a lockup in Alexandria, Virginia, according to her lawyer.
Quinta Jurecic / Lawfare:
Document: George Papadopoulos Sentencing Memo  —  The government has filed a sentencing memorandum in the case of George Papadopoulos, recommending a sentence of between zero to six months.  The document is available in full below.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Mueller prosecutors seek up to six months in prison for George Papadopoulos in Russia probe
Discussion: Raw Story
David Alexander / Reuters:
U.S. special counsel recommends six months in prison for Papadopoulos
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Power Line:
Democrats Frighten Manafort Jurors [Updated]  —  The case that Bob Mueller has brought against Paul Manafort has nothing to do with Donald Trump or the 2016 election.  It is irrelevant to any significant political issue.  But Democrats worry that Mueller's prosecution of Manafort …
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Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Truth-Testing Trump's 250-Plus Attacks on the Russia Inquiry  —  We assessed President Trump's claims about Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the ensuing federal investigation of his campaign.  —  The federal investigation into whether Russia actively sought to help Donald J. Trump win …
Discussion: The White House
Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
Rahm Emanuel under increasing fire for linking Chicago violence and morals in minority neighborhoods  —  Mayor Rahm Emanuel, under fire over comments on the surging violence in Chicago.  At right is one of multiple shooting scenes across the city in recent weeks.  In this case, a man was shot in his car.
Discussion: Chicago Tribune and IJR
Souad Mekhennet / Washington Post:
Austria's far-right government ordered a raid on its own intelligence service.  Now allies are freezing the country out.  —  VIENNA — The raids came without warning, surprising even the intelligence operatives whose job is to never be caught off guard.  —  On the morning of Feb. 28 …
Los Angeles Times:
Trump backed ‘space force’ after months of lobbying by officials with ties to aerospace industry … When President Trump spoke to Marines at the Miramar Air Station in San Diego on March 13, he threw out an idea that he suggested had just come to him.  —  “You know, I was saying it the other day …
Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Trump Blasts Social Media ‘Censorship’: ‘Discriminating Against Republican/Conservative Voices’  —  “Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won't let that happen,” POTUS says in Saturday tweet-storm  —  President Trump on Saturday issued a tweet-storm following the removal …
Patsy McGarry / The Irish Times:
Cardinal in Pennsylvania withdraws from World Meeting of Families in Dublin  —  Cardinal Donald Wuerl was to give a keynote address on families at RDS on Wednesday  —  A Cardinal who was heavily criticised for his handling of child sexual abuse allegations in the Pennsylvania grand jury report …
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Washington Examiner:
For the church's and the nation's sake, Cardinal Wuerl must go
Discussion: RedState
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats know they need to talk about how Kavanaugh would rule, and yet they fall into the trap of Senate process  —  Two weeks before Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats keep reminding themselves to stick to the script in their fight against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh …
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Top Republican opens up about Russia probe  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — For much of the last two years, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr has been the Russia investigator who is seen but rarely heard on Capitol Hill.  —  In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press …
Discussion: Power Line
Washington Post:
The un-celebrity president  —  Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown  —  Jimmy Carter finishes his Saturday night dinner, salmon and broccoli casserole on a paper plate, flashes his famous toothy grin and calls playfully to his wife of 72 years, Rosalynn: “C'mon, kid.”
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Althouse
 
 
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