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Navy Is Said to Proceed With Disciplinary Plans Against Edward Gallagher  —  Top military officials threatened to resign or be fired if their plans to remove Chief Gallagher from the SEALs were halted by President Trump, administration officials said.  —  The secretary of the Navy and the admiral …
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NBC News:
Navy secretary strongly considering resigning over Trump's meddling in SEAL case  —  Navy Secretary Spencer considered quitting over Trump's demand the Navy stop a probe of SEAL Eddie Gallagher.  Military leaders lobbied Trump to reconsider.  —  WASHINGTON — Military leaders hoping to keep …
Steve Scherer / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. Navy secretary backs SEAL's expulsion review, despite Trump objection  —  HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said on Friday a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct should face a board of peers weighing whether to oust him from the elite force …
Discussion: Navy Times and The Gateway Pundit
Ryan Browne / CNN:   Navy Secretary says review of SEAL should proceed despite Trump's opposition
Sébastien Roblin / NBC News:   Navy defies Trump's clemency of SEAL Edward Gallagher to save its institutional integrity
Vicky Ward / CNN:
Exclusive: Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden  —  (CNN)A lawyer for an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani tells CNN that his client is willing to tell Congress about meetings the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee …
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Michael Wilner / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Records show contact between Pompeo and Giuliani ahead of Ukraine ambassador's ouster  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had several phone calls with President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, toward the end of March, weeks before U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch …
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
In Trump's Washington, the rogue actors are the real players — and the experts are increasingly irrelevant  —  Two years ago President Trump shared a version of his foreign policy philosophy with a Fox News interviewer who asked about widespread vacancies at the State Department.
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Devin Nunes to Sue CNN, Daily Beast over Fake News Attacks
New York Daily News:   Giuliani Ukraine pal gave ‘hard evidence’ to Trump impeachment investigators, wants to testify
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
How Facebook's Embed in the Trump Campaign Helped the President Win  —  James Barnes is now focused on using digital-ad strategies to try to get Trump out of office in 2020  —  After the 2016 presidential election, Republican Party officials credited Facebook Inc. with helping Donald Trump win the White House.
Discussion: Raw Story
Amanda Teuscher / American Oversight:
State Department Releases Ukraine Documents to American Oversight  —  On Friday evening, the State Department released nearly 100 pages of records in response to American Oversight's lawsuit seeking a range of documents related to the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine.
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:   Trump's Gatekeeper Put Rudy in Touch With Pompeo: Emails
NBC News:
Documents released to ethics group show Giuliani, Pompeo contacts before Ukraine ambassador ousted
Discussion: New York Post
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Privately Frets 'What's Going on With Drudge?'  During Impeachment, Asks Jared Kushner to ‘Look Into It’  —  One of the most powerful media organs in the conservative movement hasn't been kind to the president during impeachment.  He's noticed.  —  As House lawmakers move quickly toward …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project  —  His Soviet code name was Godsend, and he came to Los Alamos from a family of secret agents.  —  The world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert — a result of a highly secretive effort code-named …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The United States Is Starting to Look Like Ukraine  —  Why the president must be impeached and removed.  —  Donald Trump ought to be impeached and removed from office.  This isn't what I thought two months ago, when the impeachment inquiry began.  I argued that the evidence fell short of the standards of a prosecutable criminal act.
Discussion: Crooked Timber
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Senate Trial Could Put Trump's Use of Aggressive Defense Tactics to Their Biggest Test  —  The president's campaign against the Mueller report and its author is a road map of what is likely to lie ahead.  —  WASHINGTON — Over four decades in public life, President Trump has sought to bend business …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Path for Senate impeachment proceedings unclear as Trump says ‘I want a trial’
Discussion: The Hill
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
In Three Touchstone Speeches, Elizabeth Warren Grounds Her Campaign in a History of American Protest and Movement Building  —  To launch her campaign, back in January, Sen. Elizabeth Warren had a number of locations to choose from.  She could have started in Norman, Oklahoma …
Discussion: Bad News and The Guardian
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YouTube:   Elizabeth Warren: Bolivia “Sure Looks Like” A Coup
Ryan Heath / Politico:
Hong Kong activists urge UK to give ex-colony's residents ‘real citizenship’  —  HALIFAX, Canada — A delegation of Hong Kong democracy activists has accused Britain's prime ministerial contenders of abandoning millions of people who grew up in the territory when it was a British colony.
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The Age:   The moment a Chinese spy decided to defect to Australia
Rebecca Ellis / OPB:
Oregon Supreme Court Bans Police Officers From Asking Random Questions During Traffic Stops  —  A recent ruling by the Oregon Supreme Court has banned a controversial policing practice: No longer can officers use a broken taillight or a failure to signal as a justification for scouting a driver's car for illegal guns or drugs.
Discussion: The Stranger
Tom Vilsack / USA Today:
Joe Biden has stood the test of time.  He should be the next president  —  A former Iowa governor says Joe Biden can help heal our nation and return a sense of normalcy and decency to the White House.  —  In one of the early episodes of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS Masterpiece Theatre presentation …
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Pence on surprise Iraq trip to reassure Kurds, greet troops  —  1 of 4  —  ERBIL, Iraq (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Saturday in the highest-level American trip since President Donald Trump ordered a pullback of U.S. forces in Syria two months ago.
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Jeff Mason / Reuters:   Pence visits U.S. troops in Iraq, holds call with prime minister
Wall Street Journal:
Bolton Claims White House Blocked His Access to Twitter Account  —  President Trump denies allegation regarding former national security adviser's handle  —  WASHINGTON—Former National Security Adviser John Bolton broke his silence on Friday with a claim that the White House blocked access …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Tuesday Afternoon Impeachment’ Is as Big as ‘Monday Night Football’  —  TV's impeachment drama is drawing big ratings, but a Democratic debate on MSNBC sank to a viewership low.  —  On the third day that impeachment hearings blanketed American televisions, from morning talk shows to late-night monologues …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Althouse
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Tobin Smith / New York Times:
Why Fox News Slimed a Purple Heart Recipient
Discussion: NB Blog
 
 
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