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11:25 AM ET, August 16, 2018

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John O. Brennan / New York Times:
John Brennan: President Trump's Claims of No Collusion Are Hogwash  —  That's why the president revoked my security clearance: to try to silence anyone who would dare challenge him.  —  Mr. Brennan was director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2013 to 2017.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump blurts out another Lester Holt moment  —  It really was the Russia investigation all along.  —  In an interview with the Wall Street Journal posted late Wednesday, President Trump once again gave away the ballgame when it comes to his efforts to impact the probe and tear down its leaders (both current and former).
Discussion: Just Security, MSNBC, The Week and Mediaite
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Revokes Ex-CIA Director John Brennan's Security Clearance  —  Brennan has been a vocal critic of President Trump  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump revoked the security clearance of former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, a prominent critic of the president, the White House said Wednesday.
ACLU:
ACLU Comment on Revocation of John Brennan's Security Clearance
Discussion: Common Dreams and Washington Post
Elizabeth Zwirz / Fox News:
John Brennan's nasty history with Trump preceded national security clearance revocation
J. Freedom du Lac / Washington Post:
Aretha Franklin, music's ‘Queen of Soul,’ dies at 76  —  Aretha Franklin, whose exceptionally expressive singing about joy and pain and faith and liberation earned the Detroit diva a permanent and undisputed title — the “Queen of Soul” — died Aug. 16 at her home in Detroit.  She was 76.
Discussion: New York Times
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Stereo Williams / The Daily Beast:
Aretha Franklin Dead at 76: A Queen Who Embodied Black Music's Spirit and Vision … She was an icon.  A legend.  And so much more than that.  —  Aretha Franklin was one of our greatest treasures; a prodigious talent and studious craftswoman who reached the pinnacle of her profession …
Devin Scillian / WDIV-TV:
Aretha Franklin, ‘The Queen of Soul,’ dies at age 76  —  Aretha Franklin, known famously as “The Queen of Soul,” has died at age 76.  —  Simply put, Franklin was arguably the greatest woman singer of the modern music era.  With a voice that moved easily between thunderous power and wondrous finesse …
Amanda Petrusich / New Yorker:
Aretha Franklin Is As Immortal As Can Be  —  The eternal challenge is to answer grief with something that resembles love.  To choose not to just sit around decrying hardship and injustice but to instead uncurl your fists and approach sorrow with grace, power, and, most incredibly, gratitude …
Discussion: The Atlantic, New York Times and Vox
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
‘If they take the House, he wins big’: Trump loyalists see upside in impeachment  —  Why some Trump allies think his path to reelection runs through an effort to kick him out of the Oval Office.  —  There's a new way of demonstrating loyalty to Donald Trump and his Republican Party …
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
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New York Times:
Pelosi Talks of ‘Bridge’ to New Leader as Democrats Test Her Strength  —  Nancy Pelosi is confronting rising threats from different corners of the Democratic Party, and is girding for a mortal challenge to her leadership after the November midterm elections or even sooner.
New York Times:
Bannon's New Group Issues a Midterm Plea: Save Trump
Discussion: Axios and New Republic
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
She works for Trump.  He can't stand him.  This is life with Kellyanne and George Conway.  —  Kellyanne Conway is in her living room, showing me an enormous painting of Audrey Hepburn wearing a peacock on her head, but her husband, George, really wants us to come into his office and look …
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump labels media ‘the opposition party’ as newspapers push back en masse  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lashed out at the media Thursday morning, identifying the “fake news” as “the opposition party” on the same day that hundreds of newspapers nationwide printed editorials critical …
Discussion: ABC News and CNBC
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Seeking to Relax Rules on U.S. Cyberattacks, Reverses Obama Directive  —  It isn't clear what rules the president is adopting to replace the existing ones  —  President Trump has reversed an Obama-era memorandum governing how and when the U.S. government can deploy cyberweapons …
Economic Policy Institute:
CEO compensation surged in 2017  —  What this report finds: This report looks at trends in chief executive officer (CEO) compensation, using two different measures.  The first measure includes stock options realized (in addition to salary, bonuses, restricted stock grants, and long-term incentive payouts).
Discussion: Splinter
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Washington Post:
CEO pay jumps to $19 million annually, as fears mount over the wealthy pocketing gains
Discussion: The Guardian
Michael Sinkewicz / pluralist:
Millennial Couple Bikes Through ISIS Territory to Prove ‘Humans Are Kind’ and Gets Killed  —  “Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans.”  —  An idealistic young American couple was killed in an Islamic State-claimed terrorist attack …
Discussion: Daily Wire and Clarion Project
Hannah Sparks / New York Post:
My trust fund made me miserable  —  Over the past six years, Lane Fury has collected more than $185,000 in family money.  Eventually, Fury stands to inherit roughly $6 million, but the 27-year-old doesn't see this good fortune as a positive thing.  —  “I don't actually want it,” says Fury.
Discussion: smokeroom.com
Nicholas Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
The Los Angeles Times is not participating in today's nationwide editorial page protest against Trump's attacks on the press.  Here's why  —  More than 300 newspapers around the country will participate today in a group protest of President Trump's frequent attacks on the news media.
Politico:
Manafort trial Day 13: Jury deliberations begin  —  The former Trump campaign chairman has pleaded not guilty to 18 counts of tax and bank fraud.  —  Jurors began deliberating Thursday in Paul Manafort's trial on bank- and tax-fraud charges, but the possible timing of a verdict remains unknown.
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:   Evidence Against Manafort Is ‘Overwhelming,’ Prosecutors Say
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
The Weekly Standard's Ties to Fusion GPS  —  In his online appeal for money after being fired this week, disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok credited an unlikely source to vouch for his victim status: The Weekly Standard.  —  At one time a leading conservative magazine …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Little-Known Justice Dept. Official Makes Trump's Security Clearance List
Discussion: TheBlaze, Power Line and Vox
U.S. Department of Justice:
Iraqi National Wanted for Murder in Iraq Arrested In California  —  Had Previously Attempted To Gain Lawful Permanent Resident Status  —  Omar Ameen, 45, an Iraqi national, wanted on a murder charge in Iraq, appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Sacramento, California today in connection …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine and Breitbart
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New York Times:
ISIS Member Arrested in Sacramento, U.S. Says
Discussion: RedState
Betsy Woodruff / amp.thedailybeast.com:
Trump Staffer Says He Recruited Lobbyists for Russian Mogul  —  In the time since the election, a little-known Trump campaign staffer named Daniel Gelbinovich reached out to a number of Washington lobbyists with an eyebrow-raising ask: to shield a Putin ally from U.S. sanctions.
Washington Post:
Jack Dorsey says he's rethinking the core of how Twitter works  —  Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said he is rethinking core parts of the social media platform so that it doesn't enable the spread of hate speech, harassment and false news, including conspiracy theories shared by prominent users like Alex Jones and Infowars.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
The Hill Interview: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explains what got Alex Jones suspended
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Trump's Speeches Feature Mystery Men the White House Won't Name  — The president leans on unidentified allies to back policies  — White House won't identify people Trump describes in remarks  —  One of the biggest supporters of President Donald Trump's trade policies …
Emily Zauzmer / People.com:
Omarosa Claims Ivanka Trump ‘Would Not Stop’ Complaining About SNL's ‘Complicit’ Perfume Ad  —  Omarosa Manigault Newman's tell-all Unhinged claims that Ivanka Trump hated the Saturday Night Live sketch that labeled her “complicit” in March 2017.  —  “At the senior staff meeting …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, RightWire and twitchy.com
Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy:
Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents  —  The number of informants executed in the debacle is higher than initially thought.  —  It was considered one of the CIA's worst failures in decades: Over a two-year period starting in late 2010, Chinese authorities …
Roll Call:
Espy Poll of Mississippi Senate Race Shows Path to Victory for Democrats  —  A Democratic poll of the Mississippi Senate special election shows former Rep. Mike Espy having a path to finishing first in a runoff this fall.  —  Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed earlier …
Discussion: Political Wire
Therese Shaheen / National Review:
The Belt and Road Illusion  —  China's international-development project reflects its global ambitions but masks problems at home.  —  The president is a man who often makes aspirational statements and presents them as fact.  He has a grandiose sense of what he is accomplishing …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos's Wife Says He Should Scrap His Plea Deal With Mueller  — The wife of Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos is making the bombshell suggestion that her husband drop a plea deal he has with special counsel Robert Mueller.  — Papadopoulos is scheduled to be sentenced …
Discussion: Observer and Law & Crime
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says His Tariffs Will Rescue U.S. Steel Industry  —  President says U.S. steelmakers were in danger of closing; others take issue with the tariffs' impact  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump said that his steel tariffs on China and other countries are rescuing an iconic U.S. industry …
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
US concerned by Russian satellite's ‘very abnormal behavior’  —  When Vice President Mike Pence laid out the Trump administration's plan to establish a Space Force as a new branch of the military last Thursday, critics said it was a wasteful and unnecessary step that added bureaucracy for something that didn't present a threat.
 
 
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Craig Unger / The National Memo:
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
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Al Weaver / Washington Examiner:
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Emily Crockett / Shareblue Media:
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