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1:20 PM ET, February 14, 2020

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New York Times:
Barr Installs Outside Prosecutor to Review Case Against Michael Flynn, Ex-Trump Adviser  —  Amid turmoil in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, the attorney general has also sent outside prosecutors to review other politically sensitive cases.  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr …
Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos and Vox
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. won't charge Andrew McCabe, the former FBI official who authorized the investigation of President Trump  —  The Justice Department will not bring charges against former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe for lying to investigators about a media disclosure, according to people familiar …
Discussion: Redstate and Raw Story
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Andrew McCabe, Ex-F.B.I. Official, Will Not Be Charged in Lying Case  —  The decision to decline charges appears to be a move to distance the Justice Department from President Trump, who has long attacked Mr. McCabe.  —  WASHINGTON — Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director …
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Barr's ABC News interview is deeply damning.  Here's what must come next.  —  William Barr has now had his say in public.  It's time for the four prosecutors on the Roger Stone case who were publicly humiliated by the attorney general to have theirs.  —  And if a plan that numerous House Democrats …
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
People Aren't Buying William Barr's Rebuke Of Donald Trump  —  Lawmakers, legal experts and cable news hosts highly doubt the attorney general's interview appearing to stand up to the president.  —  Attorney General William Barr on Thursday appeared to stand up to Donald Trump when he complained …
Associated Press:
US closes case against ex-FBI boss McCabe with no charges  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have declined to charge former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, closing an investigation into whether he lied to federal officials about his involvement in a news media disclosure, McCabe's legal team said Friday.
Discussion: IJR
Washington Post:
Trump bucks Barr's request to stop tweeting about Justice Dept., declaring a ‘legal right’ to seek intervention in criminal cases  —  A day after Attorney General William P. Barr publicly warned President Trump not to tweet about the Justice Department, Trump did just that, declaring that he has the …
Associated Press:
Trump ignores AG Barr's request to stop tweeting about DOJ  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday ignored his attorney general's public request to stop tweeting about the Justice Department, saying he had the legal right to ask the agency to intervene in a criminal case, but he's so far “chosen not to.”
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and WPRI-TV
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Exclusive: Republicans snooped on Democrats' House polls
Andrew C. McCarthy / The Hill:
Roger Stone's sentence: How the judge will really decide to ‘lock him up’
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Now We Know What Kind of Authoritarian Trump Aspires to Be
Discussion: Raw Story
Katie Benner / New York Times:
After Trump's Attacks on Justice Dept., Barr Says He Will Not ‘Be Bullied’
Wall Street Journal:   Trump's Worst Enemy
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Bernie Sanders leaps to first among Texas Democrats in latest UT/TT Poll  —  Sanders now leads the Democratic presidential candidates among Texas voters, but Donald Trump maintains a slight lead over each of the top Democrats in the race, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Rory Appleton / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Sanders holds lead heading into Nevada's Democratic caucuses, poll finds  —  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders leads the presidential field by a solid margin among likely Democratic caucusgoers heading into Nevada's four-day early voting period, but all six of the candidates actively campaigning …
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Bernie Sanders is leading the 2 most important states on Super Tuesday  —  Why Bernie Sanders's polling leads in California and Texas are so important.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders now holds critical polling leads in the 2020 Democratic primary: New surveys show him ahead in California and Texas …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Ryan Nicol / Florida Politics:
New front-runner?  Mike Bloomberg edges out Joe Biden in new Florida survey  —  A shocking St. Pete Polls survey late last month has Mike Bloomberg surging to second in the Florida presidential primary.  The newest version from the same outfit, released Friday, shows Bloomberg …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
There is another service to the country Biden may need to perform
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Hill
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   This is how narrow a Democrat's path to the nomination will be
Associated Press:
Facebook reverses on paid political messages that aren't ads  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook decided Friday to allow a type of paid political message that had sidestepped many of the social network's rules governing political ads, in a reversal that highlights difficulties tech companies …
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Facebook won't catalog sponsored Mike Bloomberg memes as political ads
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook says political candidates can use paid memes after Bloomberg's Instagram push
Adam Bienkov / Business Insider:
Boris Johnson has cancelled his planned trip to the White House after Trump slammed the phone down on him in a moment of ‘apoplectic’ fury  — UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cancelled his planned trip to meet Donald Trump next month after a furious row between the two men.
Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Readied Sanctions on Russian Oligarch's Associates—Then Mysteriously Backed Off  —  “Somebody overruled [Treasury], essentially,” one sanctions expert said.  “That's the most likely scenario.”  —  Something strange happened in mid-December involving Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Henry Foy / Financial Times:
US cites reports Oleg Deripaska helped Vladimir Putin launder cash
Discussion: РБК
Julia Ioffe / Washington Post:
Democrats are wasting time fighting over policies the Senate will never pass  —  It was a sight to behold: a former vice president, two senators and a former mayor on a stage in New Hampshire a week ago, arguing over the impossible.  Would Sen. Bernie Sanders deliver Medicare-for-all immediately, as he promised to do?
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Axios:
Bernie Sanders' pipe dreams
Discussion: TheBlaze
Washington Post:
She pushed Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement and roll back environmental rules.  And she's returning to EPA as chief of staff.  —  One of EPA's first Trump appointees, Mandy Gunasekara has run a ‘pro-Trump nonprofit’ since leaving the agency a year ago.
Associated Press:
US's Pelosi urges countries to steer clear of Huawei for 5G  —  MUNICH (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed Friday to an audience in Germany for countries to steer clear of Chinese tech giant Huawei as they build their next-generation cellular networks, adding her voice to pressure from the Trump administration.
Discussion: National Review
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Associated Press:
Official says US, Taliban reach truce Afghan truce agreement
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Joe.My.God.
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
An Unrestrained Trump May End Up Trapping Himself  —  The Senate pushes back on war powers and a Fed nominee, while a White House purge might undercut the president's clout.  —  I'm not sure what the conventional wisdom is about the current health of Donald Trump's presidency …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
New York Times:
We Checked the Iowa Caucus Math.  Here's Where It Didn't Add Up.  —  Caucus volunteers tally the final round votes.  Then they divide the county delegates among the viable candidates based on their vote shares.  —  They must round down or up to the nearest whole number to award the delegates.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
A President So Unhinged That Even Bill Barr Says He's Out of Control  —  Welcome to the post-acquittal Trump Presidency.  —  President Trump is not moving on.  He is not getting over it.  In the eight days since his acquittal by the Republican-controlled Senate, Trump has shown all too clearly …
Jo Craven McGinty / Wall Street Journal:
How Many People Might One Person With Coronavirus Infect?  —  Researchers in U.K. offer clues as to how contagious Covid-19 virus could be  —  When an infection erupts the way coronavirus has exploded in Wuhan, China, and elsewhere in the world, public-health experts try to gauge the potential …
ProPublica:
The Benefits of Being Joe Biden's Brother  —  Jim Biden has been at his brother's side at nearly every critical junction in Joe's life.  He's also repeatedly tapped into Joe's political network for help with his finances, and used Joe's fame to promote his business ventures. … Jim Biden was in a bind.
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
General John Kelly, Trump Stooge, Is No Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, Patriot  —  Vindman saw something, and said something.  Kelly saw plenty, and kept it to himself for more than two years.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  John Kelly's half-assed, just-the-tip critique of Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Culinary Union officials face profanity-laced attacks after scorecard says Sanders would ‘end’ their health care  —  Geoconda Arguello-Kline, left, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Union announced that the culinary will not endorse a Democratic presidential candidate in the primary.
Joshua Leifer / Jewish Currents:
Civic Religion and the Secular Jew  —  IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE Bernie Sanders's inauguration.  Not because it's difficult to believe that Sanders could win the presidency—that seems more plausible than ever.  But in the sense that it's hard to envision what the ceremony would look like.
Marissa Lang / Washington Post:
U.S. population will decline faster without steady immigration, Census report says  —  Limiting immigration over the next four decades would do little to stop the racial diversification of the United States — but it could push the country into a population decline, according to a new report by the U.S. Census Bureau.
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Media Will Never Understand The Country So Long As They Keep Hating Trump Voters  —  The mainstream media will spend a lot of effort this year reporting on Trump voters, but very little effort trying to understand or empathize with them.  —  I've spent much of the past two weeks in Iowa …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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This latest trick from the Trump administration is one of the most despicable yet
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