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4:30 PM ET, February 3, 2018

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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. told court of source's political influence in request to wiretap ex-Trump campaign aide, officials say … The court that approved surveillance of a former campaign adviser to President Trump was aware that some of the information underpinning the warrant request was paid …
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Associated Press:
Trump seized on what memo could mean even before reading it  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before he'd read the memo, President Donald Trump seized on what it could mean.  —  The president first learned of the House Intelligence Committee document last month from some Republican allies in Congress …
Josh Campbell / New York Times:
Why I Am Leaving the F.B.I.  —  One of the greatest honors of my life was walking across the stage at the F.B.I. Academy and receiving my special agent badge from the director at the time, Robert Mueller.  After 21 weeks of intensive training, my class swore an oath and became federal agents entrusted …
Noah Bookbinder / USA Today:
Nunes memo aims at Russia probe, backfires on Trump and GOP  —  The controversial Nunes memo is out.  It claims the FBI and the Justice Department abused their surveillance authority on Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign.  Democrats say the memo is misleading.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
This is the week that the GOP truly became the party of Trump  —  This was the week when the Republican Party finally went all in with President Trump.  What once seemed unlikely is now reality.  The Republican establishment — there are a few dissenting voices, of course …
QJurecic / Lawfare:
Thoughts on the Nunes Memo: We Need to Talk About Devin  —  After more than two weeks of mounting anticipation and hype, the memo on alleged surveillance abuses prepared by Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has finally been #released.
Asha Rangappa / New York Times:
Thank Progressives for the Nunes Memo  —  House Republicans released a secret memo on Friday that alleges that F.B.I. and Justice Department officials misused their authority in conducting surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page.  It also claims the officials abused …
Marcy Wheeler / HuffPost:
The Nunes-Ryan Civil Liberties Sham  —  For the last three weeks, privacy advocates have been buffeted by two political whirlwinds.  First, the reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act two weeks ago, authored by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.
Discussion: RedState and AOL
Washington Post:
Once the party of law and order, Republicans are now challenging it
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Officials disclosed source's political funding in FISA application: report
Discussion: RedState and Liberty Unyielding
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
The Memo Is Neither ‘Treasonous’ Nor ‘Worse Than Watergate’
Discussion: VICE, Washington Post and ThinkProgress
Wall Street Journal:
A Reckoning for the FBI  —  The House memo reveals disturbing facts …
Discussion: Breitbart
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:   Worse Than Watergate  —  The FISA Abuse Memo is out and now …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Nunes didn't read the FISA applications mentioned in memo
Discussion: Fox News and Vox
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry  —  The actress is finally ready to talk about Harvey Weinstein.  —  Yes, Uma Thurman is mad.  —  She has been raped.  She has been sexually assaulted.  She has been mangled in hot steel.  She has been betrayed and gaslighted by those she trusted.
Axios:
Exclusive poll: GOP turns on FBI  —  President Trump's hammering on the FBI — and green-lighting yesterday of the Russia memo's release over Bureau objections — is having a profound effect:  —  A SurveyMonkey poll for Axios finds that not even 40% of Republicans approve …
Discussion: Vox and RedState
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New York Times:
Trump's Unparalleled War on a Pillar of Society: Law Enforcement  —  WASHINGTON — In the days before the 2016 election, Donald J. Trump expressed “great respect” for the “courage” of the F.B.I. and Justice Department for reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
Washington Post:
Inside the FBI: Anger, worry, work — and fears of lasting damage
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
CNN:
Document shows GSA employees spending at the Trump Hotel in DC  —  (CNN)An employee for the federal agency supervising the lease for the Trump hotel in Washington spent more than $900 for a stay there last year, according to a document reviewed by CNN — the first publicly known movement …
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:   Trump Hotel caught directly profiting off taxpayer dime
Wayne Drash / CNN:
Cuts to CDC epidemic programs will endanger Americans, former chief says  —  Frieden: CDC essential to safety of Americans  —  (CNN)The former chief of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the decision to cut 80% of its epidemic prevention activities overseas could pose …
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Washington Is Abuzz Over the Nunes Memo.  His California District, Not So Much.  —  VISALIA, Calif. — As Washington was abuzz Friday over the release of a classified memo, Democrats and Republicans were up in arms over its allegations.  And right in the middle was Devin Nunes …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
YoMemoJokes trends nationwide, adding to Trump's humiliation over memo failure  —  As Donald Trump took to Twitter to try to convince Americans that the GOP's overhyped memo was not as much of a failure as it appeared to be, Twitter users were busy elsewhere — tweeting jokes about the memo under the hashtag #YoMemoJokes.
Discussion: KTLA, Raw Story, IJR and Politico
CNN:
Ammo seller to Las Vegas killer arrested on federal charge  —  Ammo vendor: No way to see into Paddock's mind  —  (CNN)Douglas Haig, an Arizona man who says he sold tracer ammunition to the gunman in October's Las Vegas massacre, was arrested Friday on a charge of manufacturing …
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CBS News:
Arizona man who sold ammo to Las Vegas shooter is charged
Discussion: Washington Post and RedState
 
 
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Jonathan Lai / Philly.com:
Pa. Supreme Court justice was biased in gerrymandering case, Republicans say
Discussion: HuffPost, ThinkProgress and BuzzFeed
Maria Panaritis / Philly.com:
Bucks County Judge Clyde W. Waite was nearly arrested at his own home for being black. …
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New York Times:
'They Can't Wait to Vote': Energized Democrats Target Dominant G.O.P. in Statehouses
Discussion: Raw Story
Kelly O'Meara Morales / The Week:
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