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"roger stone" - Google News: Trump's son-in-law Kushner cooperating with U.S. House probe: source - WHTC News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:14:53 -0400

Trump's son-in-law Kushner cooperating with U.S. House probe: source WHTC News

By David Morgan and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is cooperating with a wide-ranging probe ...

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Donald Trump: DOJ Disclosures In Hillary Clinton Probe Will Make It Tough To Hide The Mueller Report

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:10:53 -0400

With its recent release of material on the former secretary of state's email use, there's little argument that the special counsel report on Russia should stay secret.

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"trump as danger to National Security" - Google News: Adderall, other ADHD drugs linked to greater chance of psychosis, new study says - KEYE TV CBS Austin

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:57:34 -0400

Adderall, other ADHD drugs linked to greater chance of psychosis, new study says KEYE TV CBS Austin

Adderall, along with other amphetamines used to treat ADHD, is linked to a greater chance of psychosis than other medications used to treat the disorder, a new ...

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"2016 elections and mental health" - Google News: Adderall, other ADHD drugs linked to greater chance of psychosis, new study says - abc7amarillo.com

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:57:13 -0400

Adderall, other ADHD drugs linked to greater chance of psychosis, new study says abc7amarillo.com

Adderall, along with other amphetamines used to treat ADHD, is linked to a greater chance of psychosis than other medications used to treat the disorder, a new ...

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Palmer Report: The SDNY just made a huge new hire to coincide with the Robert Mueller report

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:55:22 -0400

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Robert Mueller’s report has been submitted, and at least some version of it is supposed to be made public as soon as this weekend. Mueller reportedly won’t indict anyone else, but as we’ve explained, Democratic leaders in Congress are expecting additional indictments from federal prosecutors such as SDNY, and those could come very soon. To that end, SDNY just made a major new prosecutorial hire.

Geoffrey Berman is the current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, but he recused himself from all Trump-related investigations from day one, due to his past ties to Trump. That left the number two person at SDNY, Robert Khuzami, in charge of the criminal case against Michael Cohen. We would have expected Khuzami to also lead the way on any Trump-related SDNY indictments that could soon be unsealed – except that Khuzami is retiring, and he’s been replaced by a big name.

The new #2 at SDNY is Audrey Strauss, who has a storied career. Back in the day she defeated Donald Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn in taking down a mafia leader. Since that time her career has been focused on aggressive white collar criminal enforcement.

Keep in mind that Audrey Strauss is going to have authority over any Trump related criminal prosecutions by the SDNY going forward – and her specialty consists of taking down crime families and white collar criminals. Read into that whatever you like. We’ll all find out SDNY’s next moves soon enough.

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"roger stone" - Google News: Adderall, other ADHD drugs linked to greater chance of psychosis, new study says - WEAR

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:54:12 -0400

Adderall, other ADHD drugs linked to greater chance of psychosis, new study says WEAR

Adderall, along with other amphetamines used to treat ADHD, is linked to a greater chance of psychosis than other medications used to treat the disorder, a new ...

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"russian organized crime in us" - Google News: Subpoenas, Sentencings, and Stone: What will become of the special counsel’s unfinished business? - Yahoo News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:36:43 -0400

Subpoenas, Sentencings, and Stone: What will become of the special counsel’s unfinished business? Yahoo News

The Mueller probe's formal end leaves questions about several ongoing legal proceedings, including the prosecution of Roger Stone, a former adviser to ...

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"trump electorate" - Google News: Sanders aims for strong showing in delegate-rich California - Washington Post

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:33:44 -0400

Sanders aims for strong showing in delegate-rich California Washington Post

Bernie Sanders is hoping California will be better for him in 2020 than it was in 2016.

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"Comey" - Google News: Mueller report proves collusion between Clinton, Comey and Obama: Diamond & Silk - Yahoo News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:32:47 -0400

Mueller report proves collusion between Clinton, Comey and Obama: Diamond & Silk Yahoo News

Social media stars Diamond & Silk say that everyone that orchestrated the Special Counsel Robert Mueller report should be prosecuted to the full extent of the ...

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"Russia influence in Eastern Europe" - Google News: Former Energy Secretary talks nuclear threat, need for dialogue in IU appearance - Indiana Daily Student

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:26:54 -0400

Former Energy Secretary talks nuclear threat, need for dialogue in IU appearance Indiana Daily Student

Ernest Moniz, former United States Secretary of Energy and CEO of Nuclear Threat Initiative, discussed nuclear arms races at the “America's Role in the World” ...

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Donald Trump: Fox News' Chris Wallace: Rudy Giuliani 'Awfully Optimistic' To Think Mueller Probe Is Over

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:26:51 -0400

The attorney’s conclusion that the special counsel's report is good news for President Trump is premature, the Fox News host warned.

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Palmer Report: The real reason Robert Mueller filed his report on a Friday evening

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:20:52 -0400

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller has filed his Trump-Russia report this evening, and it’s led to a whole lot of questions and very few answers. One of the most curious questions is why Mueller chose to file his report on a Friday evening. There may be a highly logical reason for this, and it has to do with what’s about to happen over the next few days.

Let’s start with what we know for sure. Robert Mueller spent the better part of two years working on this report, and he didn’t appear to be up against any arbitrary deadline. To that end, “March 22nd” doesn’t sound like anyone’s idea of a deadline. So Mueller chose this particular Friday evening for a reason. Attorney General William Barr then announced that he didn’t block any of Mueller’s requests, and that he’ll try to get the report to Congress as soon as this weekend.

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So Mueller chose to submit his report on a Friday, and Barr is planning to let the public see it over the weekend (he knows that when he gives it to Congress, it’ll immediately get publicly leaked whether it’s officially made public or not). And Barr doesn’t appear to be trying to play any games, because if he were lying about having granted all of Mueller’s requests, he’d be committing a crime by telling that lie, and he’d get caught.

This leaves us with the question of why Mueller and Barr are setting things up so that the public finds out what’s in Mueller’s report over the weekend. We keep hearing that Mueller isn’t indicting anyone else, but everyone from Congressman Adam Schiff to Senator Richard Blumenthal has pointed out this evening that more indictments are likely coming from the likes of SDNY. Schiff took things further during his MSNBC appearance, stating that he expects the report to spell out who “should be indicted.” Keep in mind that as Chairman of the House Intel Committee, Schiff knows things about this probe that we don’t.

If the Mueller report is indeed going to explain to the public why additional people should be indicted, it would certainly need to come out before those indictments can happen. In such case submitting the report on Friday, and making it public over the weekend, would ostensibly be in order to lay the groundwork for indictments that are being unsealed next week.

If you’ve been watching cable news this evening, you’re probably scratching your head at this, because you’ve heard over and over again that no one else is going to be indicted. But what’s actually been reported is that Robert Mueller isn’t going to indict any more people. That tells us nothing about any criminal cases that Mueller has handed off to U.S. Attorneys’ offices, which he’s done with the cases against Michael Cohen and others.

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"Abedin" - Google News: Titusville murder victim identified - Fox 35 Orlando

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:17:18 -0400

Titusville murder victim identified Fox 35 Orlando

New details were released Friday in a murder that has saddened the faith community in Brevard County.

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"trump and russia" - Google News: Key players in the Trump-Russia investigation - Virginian-Pilot

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:17:00 -0400

Key players in the Trump-Russia investigation Virginian-Pilot

WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at the key players entangled in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

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"roger stone" - Google News: Key players in the Trump-Russia investigation - Virginian-Pilot

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:17:00 -0400

Key players in the Trump-Russia investigation Virginian-Pilot

WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at the key players entangled in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:17:00 -0400

Key players in the Trump-Russia investigation Virginian-Pilot

WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at the key players entangled in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

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Donald Trump | The Guardian: What do you want to know about the Mueller report? Guardian reporters answer your questions

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:02:36 -0400

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"trump russia ties" - Google News: Trump Blocks Large-Scale Sanctions Planned Against North Korea - The Wall Street Journal

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:01:00 -0400

Trump Blocks Large-Scale Sanctions Planned Against North Korea The Wall Street Journal

President Trump said he wouldn't move forward with a round of large-scale sanctions against North Korea on Friday, catching senior officials in his own ...

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"2016 elections anxiety" - Google News: Presidential Democratic candidate O'Rourke brings populous message to SCSU campus - News-Press Now

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:00:00 -0400

Presidential Democratic candidate O'Rourke brings populous message to SCSU campus News-Press Now

Former Texas U.S. representative and Democrat presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke visited South Carolina State University's campus Friday afternoon touting ...

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"Trump and Russia" - Google News: Mueller revealed his Trump-Russia story in plain view - Washington Post

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:55:30 -0400

Mueller revealed his Trump-Russia story in plain view Washington Post

Indictment by indictment, special counsel Robert Mueller stitched together a Russia report in plain view.

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"Russian Intelligence services and organized crime" - Google News: Mueller revealed his Trump-Russia story in plain view - Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:51:34 -0400

Mueller revealed his Trump-Russia story in plain view Bluefield Daily Telegraph

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was in full deflection mode.

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"crime and terror link" - Google News: Far-right terror poses 'biggest threat' to north of England - BBC News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:47:23 -0400

Far-right terror poses 'biggest threat' to north of England BBC News

Far-right extremism poses the biggest security threat to northern England, a counter-terrorism expert has warned. Speaking anonymously to BBC News, the ...

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"Comey resignation" - Google News: Watchdog group's leader steps down after founder's firing - CityNews Vancouver

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:45:03 -0400

Watchdog group's leader steps down after founder's firing CityNews Vancouver

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The head of the Southern Poverty Law Center is stepping down, the latest high-profile departure from the watchdog organization.

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"trump under federal investigation" - Google News: The Use of Private Email and Chats, This Time by Trump’s Family, Comes Under Fire - The New York Times

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:43:33 -0400

The Use of Private Email and Chats, This Time by Trump’s Family, Comes Under Fire The New York Times

WASHINGTON — In the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump turned his focus to the F.B.I. investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a ...

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"emails investigation is Russia-Trump set-up" - Google News: The Use of Private Email and Chats, This Time by Trump’s Family, Comes Under Fire - The New York Times

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:43:33 -0400

The Use of Private Email and Chats, This Time by Trump’s Family, Comes Under Fire The New York Times

Democrats now charge that Mr. Trump's eldest daughter and her husband, who both serve as aides to the president, did the same things he pilloried Mrs. Clinton ...

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"former FBI agents power influence" - Google News: China and Global Academic Freedom – China Digital Times (CDT) - China Digital Times

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:40:00 -0400

China and Global Academic Freedom – China Digital Times (CDT) China Digital Times

Yesterday, Human Rights Watch published a 12-point Code of Conduct for institutes of higher learning to adopt to aid in responding to Beijing's threats to ...

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"crime and terror" - Google News: Terror financers: Assets of accused seized, a/cs frozen - DNA India

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:35:00 -0400

Terror financers: Assets of accused seized, a/cs frozen DNA India

The central government cracked its whip on the 13 people booked in connection with terror funding by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday.

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"roger stone" - Google News: Tucker Carlson: Roger Stone should be pardoned - Media Matters for America

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:30:59 -0400

Tucker Carlson: Roger Stone should be pardoned Media Matters for America

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Roger Stone is facing life in prison. He was indicted by an investigation designed to find collusion, indicted on minor charges.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:30:59 -0400

Tucker Carlson: Roger Stone should be pardoned Media Matters for America

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Roger Stone is facing life in prison. He was indicted by an investigation designed to find collusion, indicted on minor charges.

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Donald Trump | The Guardian: #Muellersgonna: internet mulls special counsel's Friday night plans

Matthew Cantor — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:24:02 -0400

Twitter uses are speculating about Robert Mueller’s self-care routine after he submitted his long-awaited report

With Robert Mueller’s report finally submitted, the US faces fundamental questions. Could the report’s contents change the course of American history? Will we soon see a president’s downfall? Is Robert Mueller relaxing poolside with a cocktail and a cigar?

Given the momentousness of the occasion, Twitterwas naturally on hand to make light of the situation.

God it must feel so good for Mueller to close all those browser tabs.

Mueller’s gonna dust the whole apartment and then iron a few things because he’s really been meaning to do that. https://t.co/JiajKE8Kzp

#Muellersgonna sit down at his new iMac and suddenly realize that his emails have really been piling up and needs to unsubscribe to Groupon and all of its affiliates- could take days https://t.co/DPp0ZCvHzw

can't wait to finally find out if trump is bad

Live footage of Don Jr. right now. pic.twitter.com/Z2Bgwho3GI

If you stay after the credits of @UsMovie Nick Fury comes out and holds his phone up to camera and you can read the Mueller Report via Notes App

I have read the Mueller report and it turns out in 2016 Lori Loughlin paid $600 on Craigslist for her daughter to be elected president of the United States.

As long as everyone else is opining on something they haven’t seen: My sources tell me Mueller got to the bottom of who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp. Also, who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong.

So Mueller finally said he wanted to tell us something, and he pops open this little box — and it’s a friendship bracelet. He wants to be friends. No hard feelings. He will always love us, in a way. But he wants to be friends. https://t.co/lDhmBBxgBI

FROM: Mueller, Robert
TO: Barr, William
SUBJECT: Final report

Hey - attaching report. Thanks.

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FROM: Mueller, Robert
TO: Barr, William
SUBJECT: Re: Final report

Oops sorry. Actually attaching this time. Lol

So the report has been filed but we won't know what's in it until the attorney general takes a look. You might say it's...em-Barr-goed.

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"trump authoritarianism" - Google News: The DCCC’s undemocratic decision - The Washington Post

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:23:33 -0400

The DCCC’s undemocratic decision The Washington Post

Hamstringing primary challengers calls into question just how serious the party of democracy is about the practice of democracy.

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"US elections and russia" - Google News: Senior Ukrainian official says he's opened probe into US election interference | TheHill - The Hill

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:19:23 -0400

Senior Ukrainian official says he's opened probe into US election interference | TheHill The Hill

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko told Hill.TV's John Solomon in an interview aired on Wednesday that he has opened a probe into alleged attempts ...

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Donald Trump: Robert Mueller’s Report Is Done. Here’s What Happens Next.

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:17:06 -0400

The fate of the highly anticipated report rests with Trump-appointed Attorney General William Barr, who has not committed to making the special counsel’s findings public.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:16:50 -0400

For Trump and the System, a Turning Point and a Test The New York Times

The delivery of the special counsel's report to the Justice Department will transform the political landscape and shape the remainder of Mr. Trump's presidency.

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"michael flynn" - Google News: The Mueller report has been submitted — here are all the major players in the Russia-Trump saga - Business Insider

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:15:48 -0400

The Mueller report has been submitted — here are all the major players in the Russia-Trump saga Business Insider

The Mueller probe ensnared some of the most important people in President Donald Trump's orbit, many of whom were charged with federal crimes.

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"trump criminal investigation" - Google News: I wrote the special counsel rules. The attorney general can — and should — release the Mueller report. - The Washington Post

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:14:59 -0400

I wrote the special counsel rules. The attorney general can — and should — release the Mueller report. The Washington Post

Neal Kumar Katyal is the Saunders Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He was acting solicitor general of the United States from 2010 to ...

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"trump and republican party" - Google News: Joy: The GOP's main objective is to protect Trump - MSNBC

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:13:25 -0400

Joy: The GOP's main objective is to protect Trump MSNBC

What if the Mueller report spells doom? MNSBC's Joy Reid says the Republican Party's main priority will be to protect the President, despite wrongdoing.

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Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices: Very Quick Thoughts on the End of the Mueller Investigation

Benjamin Wittes — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:12:34 -0400

Attorney General William Barr now has the Mueller Report, and the world looks a heck of a lot like it did yesterday, when Barr did not have the Mueller Report. At least, it appears to. The major difference is that the mystery before us has slightly changed form. Before today, we asked what Mueller was going to do, what indictments he was going to bring, and what allegations he was going to make. Today, we ask a subtly different question: What is it that he has written? What allegations has he made? And why has he decided not to make those allegations in the form of additional cases?

We don’t, at this stage, know anything about what information the Mueller Report contains. We don’t know what form the document takes. We don’t even know how many pages comprise it. We don’t know when we will learn what Mueller has found. Speculating about these questions is not useful. A huge amount depends here on how Mueller imagines his role—and on how Barr imagines his.

But there are certain things we do know: We know, for example, that Mueller was able to finish his investigation on his own terms. We know this because Barr said so in his letter to Congress Friday evening. The special counsel regulations, writes Barr, “require that I provide [Congress] with ‘a description and explanation of incidents (if any) in which the Attorney General’” countermanded an investigative step of the special counsel. “There were no such instances during the Special Counsel’s investigation.” This is reassuring. From it, we can at least tentatively conclude that the Mueller report—whatever is in it—reflects Mueller’s best assessment of the evidence, following his having taken every investigative step he felt necessary and appropriate to reach that assessment.

We also know that Mueller is not going to indict more people. Though what precisely this means is unclear, it means at a minimum that we should not expect the major collusion indictment that ties together the earlier Russian hacking allegations and social media indictment with conduct by figures in the Trump campaign. It also means that whatever Mueller found on the obstruction prong of the investigation, it’s not resulting in criminal charges either.

The president should wait before popping the champagne corks over this and tweeting in triumph. Yes, in the best-case scenario for the president, Mueller is not proceeding further because he lacks the evidence to do so. But even this possibility contains multitudes: everything from what the president calls “NO COLLUSION!” to evidence that falls just short of adequate to prove criminal conduct to a reasonable jury beyond a reasonable doubt—evidence that could still prove devastating if the conduct at issue becomes public.

There are other possibilities as well. It’s possible, for example, that Mueller is not proceeding against certain defendants other than the president because he has referred them to other prosecutorial offices; some of these referrals are already public, and it’s reasonable to expect there may be other referrals too. In this iteration, what is ending here is not the investigation, merely the portion of the investigation Mueller chose to retain for himself. It’s possible also that Mueller is finished because he has determined that while the evidence would support a prosecution of the president, he is bound by the Justice Department’s long-standing position that the president is not amenable to criminal process. On the obstruction front, he may well have concluded that, while the president acted to obstruct the investigation, he cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the president’s obstructive acts were not exercises of Trump’s Article II powers. It’s also possible that Mueller has strong prudential reasons for not proceeding with otherwise viable cases.

My gut instinct is that it is some combination of these factors that explains the end of the probe. Without knowing the reasons the investigation is finished, it is impossible to know how to assess its end—and nobody should try.

Finally, we also know other one big thing: There is a report—some kind of, as Barr describes it, quoting the relevant regulation, “‘confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions’ he has reached.” About this document we admittedly know little. Barr said in his letter that he is reviewing the document and “may be in a position to advise [Congress] of the Special Counsel’s principal conclusions as soon as this weekend.” How capacious this initial accounting will be is known only to Barr himself. But Barr has also promised to make as much of Mueller’s findings public as he can consistent with the law—a promise he reiterated in his letter Friday evening. So it’s reasonable to expect, though not to be complacent in the expectation, that over time, the underlying factual findings and legal analysis will emerge.

All of which, as I say, shifts the conversation from what Mueller will do to what he has written in explaining what he has done—and what he has not done. Vindication for the president will take place only when we learn that the facts contained in the report exculpate him. The end of the Mueller probe could well prove tomorrow to be merely the creation of a factual record for the next act of this drama.

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"organized crime and intelligence" - Google News: 'Heroes' honored at Chamber event - La Mesa Courier

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:05:59 -0400

'Heroes' honored at Chamber event La Mesa Courier

By Jeff Clemetson | Editor. La Mesa Chamber of Commerce held its annual The Salute to Local Heroes on March 14 at the Town & Country Resort in Mission ...

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Palmer Report: William Barr gives away something big during his announcement that Robert Mueller’s report is turned in

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:05:30 -0400

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report is now in the hands of Attorney General William Barr. Even as we wait for the other shoe to drop, Barr’s announcement about the receipt of the report has given away something big about how Mueller’s investigation has played out in the weeks since Barr took office.

By rule, William Barr has to publicly reveal any instances in which Robert Mueller and/or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asked him to approve something but he refused. In his announcement letter, Barr says that there were no such instances. If Barr were lying about this, he’d quickly get exposed, and he’d get in legal trouble for it. So it’s safe to assume that he’s telling the truth. This is a big deal.

This means that Mueller got his way every single time he asked Barr to approve something. If Mueller asked for approval to refer criminal cases against Trump and/or his kids to places like SDNY for indictment and prosecution, then he got it. We don’t know what Mueller asked for, but we do know that he has a long and consistent history of being a particularly aggressive prosecutor. Now we know that he got his way with Barr.

We can’t stress enough that tonight’s prevailing media narrative about no one else getting indicted is misleading at best, and borders on intentional false reporting. People ranging from Chairman Adam Schiff to Senator Richard Blumenthal have called in to MSNBC to spell out that more indictments are likely coming from places like SDNY, but MSNBC just keeps sticking with its false narrative about no one else in Trump world getting indicted. We’re almost at a loss for words at how recklessly MSNBC is botching the story tonight.

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"Trump FBI file" - Google News: Robert Mueller's Russia-Trump probe is big and complicated, but these are the threads tying it together - ABC News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:04:38 -0400

Robert Mueller's Russia-Trump probe is big and complicated, but these are the threads tying it together ABC News

Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Donald Trump's campaign for President and its connections to Russia has become so broad and complex ...

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"crime and terror" - Google News: Far-right terror poses 'biggest threat' to north of England - BBC News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:02:01 -0400

Far-right terror poses 'biggest threat' to north of England BBC News

Right-wing extremism is not being taken seriously enough, a former counter terror expert warns.

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"felix sater" - Google News: Robert Mueller's Russia-Trump probe is big and complicated, but these are the threads tying it together - ABC News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:01:12 -0400

Robert Mueller's Russia-Trump probe is big and complicated, but these are the threads tying it together ABC News

It's broad, complex, and hard to understand. But there are points where all the threads of Robert Mueller's investigation come together. Here are the significant ...

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:01:12 -0400

Robert Mueller's Russia-Trump probe is big and complicated, but these are the threads tying it together ABC News

It's broad, complex, and hard to understand. But there are points where all the threads of Robert Mueller's investigation come together. Here are the significant ...

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"former FBI agents power influence" - Google News: What Justice Department rules say Barr can do — and can't do — with the Mueller report - KBZK Bozeman News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:58:59 -0400

What Justice Department rules say Barr can do — and can't do — with the Mueller report KBZK Bozeman News

Special counsel Robert Mueller has closed his investigation into Russian meddling, and Attorney General William Barr will inform Congress about Mueller's ...

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"Russian Intelligence services and organized crime" - Google News: Mueller’s clues: Here’s what we know about his historic investigation - WPIX 11 New York

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:58:00 -0400

Mueller’s clues: Here’s what we know about his historic investigation WPIX 11 New York

Special counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month investigation was an often-shocking story about what Russians, Trump campaign associates and others did in the ...

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Donald Trump: Rob Porter's Ex-Wife: Me Too Career Comebacks Need To Be 'Earned,' Not 'Given'

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:51:30 -0400

Jennie Willoughby called the former White House aide's quiet re-emergence "deeply troubling," noting that "he has yet to candidly address" his alleged domestic abuse.

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"Rudy Giuliani" - Google News: Adam Schiff rejects reports that Mueller indictments are over, says special counsel could be called to testify - Fox News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:49:21 -0400

Adam Schiff rejects reports that Mueller indictments are over, says special counsel could be called to testify Fox News

Adam Schiff rejected reports that no more Mueller indictments are coming, and suggested he would call the special counsel before a House panel if necessary ...

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:49:21 -0400

Adam Schiff rejects reports that Mueller indictments are over, says special counsel could be called to testify Fox News

Adam Schiff rejected reports that no more Mueller indictments are coming, and suggested he would call the special counsel before a House panel if necessary ...

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Palmer Report: Why are MSNBC and CNN broadcasting total fiction tonight about additional Trump-related indictments?

Cheryl Kelley — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:29:44 -0400

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Earlier today MSNBC’s Ari Melber reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was finished as of today. He didn’t end it there. This day would go down in history. As of today there is no more Special Counsel. It’s done. It’s over as of today.

But, wait, at 7:00 pm, Robert Mueller’s spokesman stated that Robert Mueller will be concluding his service in the coming days. While this may be a minor distinction, it belies a larger problem with today’s reporting. We just heard definitively from MSNBC that there will be no more indictments. Then, Senator Richard Blumenthal appeared on MSNBC and said more indictments are very likely. Adam Schiff did the same. But none of that swayed MSNBC’s insistence that no one else will be indicted.

CNN has largely been pushing the same false narrative. Then CNBC reported that there are no sealed indictments anywhere. Really? Where are they getting that information? What about Julian Assange? Are we supposed to believe there is no sealed indictment against him?

Perhaps they mean that any additional indictments are no longer Mueller’s, because they have already been handed off to other offices within the DOJ. That would make sense, but it would also mean this is very bad reporting, and a lot of reporters are jumping to inaccurate or misleading conclusions.

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Palmer Report: Senator Richard Blumenthal says that, after Robert Mueller report, “high likelihood” Donald Trump will be indicted

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:50:51 -0400

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The TV pundits really, really, really want you to buy into the narrative tonight that the submission of Robert Mueller’s report somehow means that Mueller didn’t find enough evidence to build a criminal case against Donald Trump. What’s this based on? Literally nothing, of course. Meanwhile, the people in position to know better are expecting Mueller’s report to set off additional indictments.

First, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff appeared on MSNBC and stated that he thinks it’s “likely” there are more indictments coming; they’ll just come from the U.S. Attorneys’ offices that Mueller handed off the cases to. But this didn’t seem to fit with the doomsday narrative, so MSNBC kept pushing the notion that it’s all over, and everyone who hasn’t yet been arrested is somehow magically off the hook. That’s when Richard Blumenthal stepped to the plate.

Richard Blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, appeared on MSNBC and stated that there is a “high likelihood that there are indictments in this president’s future.” He explained that these indictments are likely to come from SDNY and/or other federal prosecutors. But again, this didn’t fit the prevailing MSNBC narrative, so the host cut off Blumenthal, and began asking leading questions which were aimed at painting the picture that no more indictments are coming.

We don’t know why the TV pundits are so eager tonight to push the notion that they somehow know that no one else will be indicted, beyond the obvious fact that scaring viewers is a good way to paralyze them into staying tuned in. But back in the real world, people who have been involved with the overall Trump-Russia investigation, such as Adam Schiff and Richard Blumenthal, are very loudly saying that they’re expecting more indictments. Blumenthal even thinks Trump is going to be indicted.

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Just Security — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:46:08 -0400

The first waiting game is over. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has completed his role as Special Counsel and delivered his findings to Attorney General William Barr.

Now, the second waiting game begins: When will Congress and the public get to see the sum and substance of Mueller’s report, principal conclusions, findings, and underlying evidence? What does the law and past interbranch practice suggest will and should happen?

Just Security authors have long been analyzing those questions. Below we offer some of the analysis and varied perspectives our experts have provided on the prospects for public disclosure of material information about the most consequential public investigation since Watergate.

The upshot: There’s already a large body of information in the public domain from which Congress and the public can draw conclusions about conduct by Trump, his campaign, and other close associates (regardless of criminality); there are multiple possible “reports” associated with Mueller’s investigation, some of which are more consequential than others; and while this could take a long time to play out, Congress may have ways to get around grand jury secrecy rules and executive privilege claims that could otherwise prevent disclosure of Mueller’s findings. However, Mueller and the Justice Department may choose not to declassify information at issue in the counterintelligence investigation, which could limit public access, and it’s also possible that President Trump could interfere with disclosure of findings by unnecessarily classifying the information at issue.

Here’s the breakdown by our experts:

Marty Lederman, March 18, 2019: Why it’s a mistake to be a-waitin’ “the” Mueller Report (and why you should instead focus on to other reports)

Lederman explains that the so-called “Mueller Report” probably won’t see the light of day for a host of reasons, but that such nondisclosure is not as troubling as it might appear at first glance, for two reasons:

First, we’ll already know most of what’s in Mueller’s report to Barr, because the information is already right out there in the public record, in the many grand jury indictments and other court filings that already are, or soon will be, widely available. The only substantive parts of the report that won’t be transparent, then, are Mueller’s explanations of why he chose not to seek indictments of others — possibly including the President.

Second, Mueller’s report to Barr is only one of three or more “reports” that ought to emerge when the Russia investigation ends. And at least two of those other reports, which will be submitted to Congress and parts of which may well become public, are likely to be far more revealing and more significant than the so-called “Mueller Report”:

(i) Barr’s own Section 600.9(a)(3) notification to the judiciary committees—which presumably Mueller will have drafted in large part—can be, and should be, a comprehensive account of the Russia investigation, consistent with Barr’s promise to senators in connection with his confirmation hearing that because “it is very important that the public and Congress be informed of the results of the Special Counsel’s work . . . my goal will be to provide as much transparency as I can consistent with the law.” That report might well reveal a great deal of factual information about President Trump’s actions involving Russia. We should not expect it, however, to include Mueller’s assessment about whether there are grounds to ask a grand jury to bring criminal charges against Trump after he leaves office, nor to offer any conclusions about whether Trump’s conduct did or did not satisfy the elements of any particular criminal offenses. Accordingly, as long as Trump is in office it will be up to the committees themselves—and Congress as a whole—to (in the words of the Jaworski road map) “determine what action may be warranted . . . by [the] evidence” presented in Barr’s notification.

(ii) It’s likely, however, that the most important “report” of them all will be the briefing that DOJ must provide to the congressional intelligence committees conveying the results of the counterintelligence investigation Mueller has superintended. In order to comply with the requirement of keeping those committees “fully and currently informed” of the results of the investigation, that briefing—which will probably include at least some written document—should include Mueller’s assessment, if any, about whether, how and to what extent Trump is compromised or is otherwise unable to perform his constitutional duties on behalf of the nation when it comes to the Russian threat to our electoral system. Does Trump have financial obligations to Russian interests? Was he—and does he continue to be—motivated by the prospects of a Moscow Trump Tower? Does Russian intelligence have kompromat on Trump that makes him susceptible to undue influence? Or is there a more benign explanation for Trump’s otherwise inexplicable conduct regarding Russia and Putin? The counterintelligence investigation’s answers to these and similar questions—especially its assessment, if any, of the President’s current capacity to address the foreign threat—are of far greater current importance to the functioning of our government than determining whether Trump’s conduct in 2016-2017 violated any particular criminal statutes.

Of course, the FBI and the intelligence committees rarely disclose the results of counterintelligence investigations to the public, for obvious reasons: In the ordinary case, much of the information is classified because it could reveal sensitive sources or methods and because there’s an interest in not revealing to the foreign subjects of the investigation what our government has learned about their activities. This is far from an ordinary case, however. Congress and the public have a critical need to know whether and to what extent the president is compromised and whether he’s fit to respond to the Russian threat without fear or favor. It’s therefore safe to assume Mueller will try to convey such information to the committees in a form that permits the greatest possible dissemination consistent with national security imperatives. At which point it will primarily be the responsibility of the chairs of the committees—Richard Burr (R-N.C.) in the Senate and Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) in the House—to assess how much of the information they can and should share with the rest of Congress and the public.

Ryan Goodman and Andy Wright, Mueller Findings: Why DOJ Non-Disclosure Policy and Grand Jury Secrecy May Not Apply (Feb. 26, 2019)

Goodman and Wright argue that whatever Special Counsel Robert Mueller finds, the American people, and their congressional representatives, have a right to know whether they can continue to entrust President Donald Trump with the power of the presidency.

As we look toward the Mueller investigation’s endgame, we believe some issues concerning transparency of Mueller’s findings have not been appreciated in commentary to date.

1. Grand jury secrecy will not cover a great amount of the evidence Mueller collected.

Many commentators assume that a central concern with the disclosure of Mueller’s findings involves the secrecy generally afforded grand jury information. Those discussions boil down to considerations of whether the normal protections afforded such grand jury information might be overcome, for example, by a congressional subpoena. That issue is complicated, and Congress may ultimately prevail. But short of that, grand jury secrecy won’t cover a lot of the most important evidence.

For example, the FBI’s interview memoranda — called “302s” due to their federal form number “FD 302” — are not covered by grand jury secrecy rules unless they are transformed by their use before the grand jury…In addition, the courts’ prevailing view of grand jury secrecy rules would not apply to a congressional subpoena directed at documents that also happened to have been subpoenaed by the grand jury.

But before even thinking about grand jury secrecy rules, what if the Special Counsel’s Office conducted an entire thread of the investigation without resort to a grand jury?

That seems to be the case with the part of the investigation focused on President Trump’s potential obstruction of justice and abuse of power while in office. Matthew Miller reported that none of the witnesses who have spoken to the Special Counsel Office about obstruction have gone before the grand jury. If this is accurate, grand jury secrecy rules would not prevent Mueller from making public his report on the President’s efforts to hamper the investigation. At a minimum, it denies the Attorney General a reason to decline the release of this body of information on grand jury secrecy grounds.

2. Public hearings are even more warranted if no charges are filed against Trump campaign associates.

If no criminal charges are filed against Trump campaign associates for conspiring directly with Russia or Wikileaks, there may be an even stronger ground for holding public hearings. The absence of any pending criminal prosecutions could help free up Mueller—and other members of the Special Counsel Office and witnesses like George Nader and Michael Cohen—to speak publicly without concerns that congressional hearings might interfere with ongoing criminal investigations.

3. It is far from clear that the DOJ policy of not disclosing derogatory information about people who aren’t indicted applies to much of the Mueller investigation.

The Justice Department is likely poised to make the claim that, in accord with longstanding Department policy, it won’t release derogatory information about people who the prosecutors do not indict in the course of an investigation. As recently as Monday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein publicly affirmed his support for this policy in words that the Washington Post called “an ominous sign for those hoping the department will soon disclose the closely held details of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe.” Rosenstein said, “The guidance I always gave my prosecutors and the agents that I worked with during my tenure on the front lines of law enforcement were if we aren’t prepared to prove our case beyond a reasonable doubt in court, then we have no business making allegations against American citizens.”

But that Justice Department policy applies to criminal investigations. It is not as clear how those interests apply in a counterintelligence context. Mueller’s mandate is primarily a counterintelligence one focused on “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump.” The special counsel is then, as a secondary matter, authorized to prosecute federal crimes discovered in the course of that investigation. In other words, Mueller’s core mandate is focused on finding out if there is derogatory information about individuals associated with the Trump campaign, regardless of whether their conduct amounts to crime. The fact that campaign members may have not crossed the line of criminality or may have committed crimes but not in a manner provable beyond a reasonable doubt should not shield them from exposure in a public report for corruptly working with a foreign adversary to undermine an American election — if that’s what happened.

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The natural remedy for conduct designed to undermine democratic elections, and public confidence in them, is disclosure of that nefarious conduct to the democratic citizenry victimized by it. If the information concerning what certain Americans did in concert with a foreign adversary is derogatory, well that’s exactly what Mueller was charged to find out, and what the public has a right to know.

Joshua Geltzer, Decoding What Barr Really Said About Letting the Public See the Mueller Report (Jan. 16, 2019)

Geltzer argues that, during his confirmation hearings, Barr didn’t answer the key question of whether he’d make Mueller’s final report public—or, if he did, his answer missed the mark.

The first key comment from Barr on this important issue came in response to Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.): “There are two different reports. Under the current regulations, the special counsel report is confidential. The report that goes public would be a report by the Attorney General.”

Barr’s correct that the special counsel regulations anticipate two different reports, or at least two different types of reporting. The first type of reporting goes from the Special Counsel to the Attorney General and is indeed at that stage confidential, as Barr suggests. As the regulations explain, “At the conclusion of the Special Counsel’s work, he or she shall provide the Attorney General with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the Special Counsel.” The second type of reporting goes from the Attorney General to Congress, and is triggered by the Attorney General appointing or removing a special counsel and also upon conclusion of the special counsel’s investigation, at which point the Attorney General must inform Congress of any instances in which the Attorney General rejected an action proposed by the special counsel, as the regulations also explain. The Attorney General reports are no substitute for the Special Counsel report. The formal commentary that accompanied issuance of the special counsel regulations, for instance, describes the Attorney General reports as “brief notifications, with an outline of the actions and the reasons for them.”

The big question concerns the public release of the first type of reporting.

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But Barr errs in describing the first type of reporting as “confidential” as the last word. It’s true that the report provided is confidential as it goes from the Special Counsel to the Attorney General; and the regulation’s formal commentary explained that this confidentiality was an effort to accommodate privacy interests and to ensure that a special counsel wouldn’t feel pressure to investigate endlessly lest a public accounting be subject to criticism for any gaps in it. Note that the confidentiality provision is specific to the Special Counsel’s final report that explains decisions to prosecute or to decline to prosecute individuals. Mueller may in fact file with the Attorney General other kinds of reports, such as one concerning the counterintelligence findings of any collusion with Russia. Still, the real question isn’t about what goes from the Special Counsel to the Attorney General; it’s what happens next….When pressed on this by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Barr’s response was indeterminate.

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The most generous reading of Barr’s response emphasizes Barr’s indication that his “objective and goal is to get as much as I can of the information to Congress and the public.” But his response also suggests that the report “will be handled as a confidential document,” and is caveated by Barr’s musing as “to the extent I have discretion” to release it.

Let’s be clear: the Attorney General has such discretion—and not only to release “information” about the report but also to release the report itself. Indeed, the report, once delivered confidentially and redacted as may be appropriate, is in a sense like any other Justice Department document: it’s in the discretion of the Attorney General to share it with Congress and the public. Indeed, that’s what the very next sentence of the Special Counsel regulations seems to suggest: “All other releases of information by any Department of Justice employee, including the Special Counsel and staff, concerning matters handled by Special Counsels shall be governed by the generally applicable Departmental guidelines concerning public comment with respect to any criminal investigation, and relevant law.”

Kel McClanahan, Trump’s Ability to Classify Mueller Report is Greater Threat Than Executive Privilege (Sept. 18, 2018)

McClanahan argues the real threat to public disclosure of the Mueller report is President Trump’s ability to unilaterally classify the report.

Simply put, there are currently no restrictions on the President’s ability to reach down into an agency and classify any document on his own authority, whether it be a formal investigative report or a cafeteria menu. The only governing rules are established by Executive Order 13526 – the latest iteration of a long line of Executive Orders on national security information classification. But for reasons explained below, those rules are either so broad as to be relatively meaningless or are virtually unenforceable by anyone seeking to prove that Trump misclassified a document.

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I believe we should be far less concerned about Trump claiming executive privilege or ordering Rosenstein not to publicly release the report and far more concerned about him classifying it. That is his smartest play.

Jessica Marsden and Andy Wright, Executive Privilege and the Public Interest: Why the President Can’t Block Release of the Mueller Report (Sept. 13, 2018)

Marsden and Wright argue that executive privilege doctrine likely will not cover much of the material related to the Mueller investigation.

Under well-established Supreme Court doctrine, executive privilege is qualified, not absolute. Claims of executive privilege must fail in the face of a strong interest on the part of Congress, the courts, or the public (as FOIA requesters) in the release of the information. In the case of a lengthy counterintelligence and criminal investigation into the president and his close associates, public interest is at its peak, and executive privilege should be no obstacle to the public release of the Special Counsel’s report.

To begin with, executive privilege extends only to certain types of executive branch information: presidential communications, deliberative processes, state secrets, some attorney-client communications, and some active law enforcement files. Much of the information likely to be in the Special Counsel’s report falls outside thos

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has wrapped up, but Trump and his associates may not be out of legal jeopardy yet.

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"trump as danger to National Security" - Google News: US, Russian Bombers Square Off Over Europe - Daily Signal

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:36:17 -0400

US, Russian Bombers Square Off Over Europe Daily Signal

KYIV, Ukraine—A task force of U.S. Air Force B-52 strategic bombers conducted air combat exercises Monday across Europe. That same day, Russia ...

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"trump russian ties" - Google News: A look at Russians who became mixed up in Trump probe - WSB Atlanta

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:35:40 -0400

A look at Russians who became mixed up in Trump probe WSB Atlanta

MOSCOW (AP) - An investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into an elaborate Russian operation that sought to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential ...

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Palmer Report: Adam Schiff says more Trump-Russia indictments are likely coming now that Robert Mueller’s report has been filed

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:34:33 -0400

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Robert Mueller filed his Trump-Russia report this afternoon with the Attorney General. No one knows yet what’s in the report, or what accompanying events might be about to play out. It’s being widely reported that Mueller won’t bring any additional indictments, but an hour ago, Palmer Report explained that because Mueller is known to have handed some cases off to the likes of SDNY, it’s entirely reasonable to expect that more indictments are coming. Now it turns out Adam Schiff agrees with us.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff appeared on MSNBC during the 6pm hour today, and he said this: “What Mueller is reporting, as best we can tell, are his conclusions on the criminal side of the house, who should be indicted and who shouldn’t be indicted, and why he reached those conclusions.” Then Schiff added that he thinks it’s “entirely possible if not likely that there will be other indictments” forthcoming.

It’s not all that difficult to figure out how and why this would be the case. For example, Robert Mueller investigated Michael Cohen and determined that while Cohen didn’t commit crimes central to the Trump-Russia election scandal, he did commit other Trump-related crimes, so he referred the case to the SDNY, which had jurisdiction over those crimes. Sure enough, SDNY brought a case against Cohen, and he’s going to prison. Does anyone really believe that Cohen is the only person in Trump’s orbit who fit this particular pattern?

So yeah, Adam Schiff is right to expect that there are additional indictments likely coming. The question is how many Trump-related sealed indictments are in play that we don’t know about. It’s also notable that Schiff expects the report to spell out who “should be indicted.” This would mean that Mueller’s report has spelled out why these other indictments are about to be carried out.

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"Donald Trump" - Google News: President Donald Trump returned to Palm Beach and met with Caribbean leaders today - WPBF West Palm Beach

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:32:00 -0400

President Donald Trump returned to Palm Beach and met with Caribbean leaders today WPBF West Palm Beach

President Donald Trump returns to Palm Beach County for the weekend. The president will be meeting with Caribbean leaders at 2 p.m. at Mar-a-Lago.

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"emails investigation is Russia-Trump set-up" - Google News: A look at Russians who became mixed up in Trump probe - Washington Post

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:30:53 -0400

A look at Russians who became mixed up in Trump probe Washington Post

MOSCOW — An investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into an elaborate Russian operation that sought to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential ...

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"trump russia ties" - Google News: A Look at Russians Who Became Mixed up in Trump Probe - U.S. News & World Report

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:29:21 -0400

A Look at Russians Who Became Mixed up in Trump Probe U.S. News & World Report

MOSCOW (AP) — An investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into an elaborate Russian operation that sought to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential ...

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Donald Trump: Twitter Users React To Mueller Report's Release With -- What Else? -- GIFs

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:25:32 -0400

Many GIFs imagined Donald Trump's reaction when he sees the report on 2016 election interference.

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"trump narcissist" - Google News: Release the Mueller report now - The Week Magazine

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:20:00 -0400

Release the Mueller report now The Week Magazine

The Mueller report — the product of the famous investigation into any connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, conducted by ...

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Donald Trump | The Guardian: What does the Mueller report say and what does it mean for Trump?

Tom McCarthy and JonJon Swaine New York — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:13:20 -0400

It’s not clear whether or how the full report will be made public, but here’s what we know so far

We don’t know yet. We know that Mueller has filed his report to William Barr, the attorney general, and that Barr has informed Congress that he received it.

(i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and

(ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and

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"FBI is the bureau of "we don't know yet"" - Google News: What does the Mueller report say and what does it mean for Trump? - The Guardian

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:13:00 -0400

What does the Mueller report say and what does it mean for Trump? The Guardian

It's not clear whether or how the full report will be made public, but here's what we know so far.

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Donald Trump: Robert Mueller Recommends No Further Indictments In Russia Probe: Reports

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:12:26 -0400

The special counsel has delivered his completed report on his investigation into election interference to Attorney General William Barr.

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Politics: A key Mueller question is answered: The Justice Department didn’t block any investigations

Philip Bump — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:11:04 -0400

Why the odds are low of any new indictments from the Mueller probe.

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Politics: Democrats respond to Mueller report with one message: Make it public now

Colby Itkowitz — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:11:03 -0400

The 2020 presidential candidates and congressional leaders said the American people have a “right to the truth.”

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"Russian Intelligence services and organized crime" - Google News: Mueller dishes on Russia - World News - Castanet.net

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:11:00 -0400

Mueller dishes on Russia - World News Castanet.net

Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over ...

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:11:00 -0400

Mueller dishes on Russia - World News Castanet.net

Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over ...

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Palmer Report: Robert Mueller’s report is in. Now here come the biggest of Trump-Russia indictments. They just won’t come from Mueller.

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:05:36 -0400

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During his lengthy investigation into the Trump-Russia election scandal, Special Counsel Robert Mueller encountered a number of other crimes allegedly committed by people in Donald Trump’s orbit. We know this because Mueller has already referred some of these criminal cases to the SDNY for completion and prosecution. Now that Mueller has filed his report, we’ll soon start to see what’s up his sleeve – and not just with regard to the report itself.

Put another way: does anyone really think that Robert Mueller went to the trouble to dig up crimes committed by a relative peon like Michael Cohen and hand it off for prosecution, but Mueller didn’t bother to dig up any alleged crimes committed by more central players like Trump’s kids, and refer them for prosecution? Of course he did, if he found evidence that Trump’s kids committed crimes. That goes for everyone else who got looked at in the probe. Jerome Corsi says that Mueller already told him he will be indicted for perjury, but that hasn’t happened yet. Unless Mueller has changed his mind, that indictment is surely coming.

In fact it’s reasonable to conclude that, of all the criminal cases Robert Mueller has handed off to U.S. Attorneys’ offices, at least some of them have reached the indictment stage but have been kept under seal until Mueller’s report has been filed. Why? Let’s say, hypothetically, that one or more of Trump’s kids has been indicted. If those arrests were carried out before Mueller could complete his report, there’s a good chance Trump would have become enraged enough to take the risk of trying to fire Mueller on the spot.

Again, we don’t have any way of knowing what indictments might be under seal at this moment, or when they might be unsealed and carried out. But now that Robert Mueller has managed to safely submit his report without getting fired first, the clock starts today on those indictments. That doesn’t mean they’ll be unsealed today, or tomorrow. But it does mean that if they’ve remained under seal so Mueller could file his report, we’ve reached the part where they can be unsealed, as soon as prosecutors are strategically ready.

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Donald Trump | The Guardian: Who is Robert Mueller, the 'pain in the ass' who took on Trump?

Tom McCarthy in New York — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:04:50 -0400

The special counsel has had a seriousness of purpose throughout the Russia investigation, allowing his work to do the talking

Friday evening brought news of the completion and submission of a long-awaited report by special counsel Robert Mueller, about alleged collusion between aides to Donald Trump and Russian operatives.

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"2016 elections anxiety" - Google News: For Trump and the System, a Turning Point and a Test - New York Times

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:00:35 -0400

For Trump and the System, a Turning Point and a Test New York Times

The delivery of the special counsel's report to the Justice Department will transform the political landscape and shape the remainder of Mr. Trump's presidency.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:59:01 -0400

Mueller submits report on Trump investigation to AG Barr KVOA Tucson News

NBC NEWS – Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday wrapped up his nearly two-year investigation into Donald Trump and Russia and sent his report to ...

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"Emails Investigation Reopening" - Google News: Robert Durst faces new lawsuit in death of first wife - The Journal News | LoHud.com

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:59:00 -0400

Robert Durst faces new lawsuit in death of first wife The Journal News | LoHud.com

NEW YORK - The legal saga surrounding real estate scion Robert Durst, of Scarsdale, found yet another venue Friday, as a new lawsuit accused him of killing ...

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:56:00 -0400

Lawyer Who Bested Roy Cohn Tapped for Big Gig in SDNY Courthouse News Service

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:56:00 -0400

Lawyer Who Bested Roy Cohn Tapped for Big Gig in SDNY Courthouse News Service

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Politics: After lashing out for months against the Russia investigation, a combative Trump awaits Mueller’s findings

Ashley Parker — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:54:29 -0400

President’s actions in office, including his firing of FBI Director James B. Comey, were scrutinized by special counsel Robert S. Mueller as possible obstruction of justice.

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Donald Trump: Trump Could Be A Modern-Day Queen Esther: Mike Pompeo

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:54:08 -0400

This isn’t the first time Trump has evoked comparisons to Esther, an ancient Jewish queen who risked her life to save her people.

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"Emails Investigation Reopening" - Google News: Mueller submits his report on Russia investigation - Newsday

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:53:18 -0400

Mueller submits his report on Russia investigation Newsday

WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday submitted his highly anticipated report on his nearly two-year investigation into any links or ...

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"Sebastian Gorka" - Google News: Want to Understand the Mueller Report? Here’s Who You Should Follow on Twitter - New York Magazine

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:53:00 -0400

Want to Understand the Mueller Report? Here’s Who You Should Follow on Twitter New York Magazine

A rough guide to the voices leading the conversation about the special counsel on Twitter, and who will be essential to pay attention to whenever the Mueller ...

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Donald Trump: Letter to Congress members regarding Mueller report

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:40:54 -0400

Attorney-general William Barr advises on receipt of investigation conclusions

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"trump investigated by the fbi" - Google News: Trump-Russia inquiry: What might Mueller report look like? - BBC News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:37:24 -0400

Trump-Russia inquiry: What might Mueller report look like? BBC News

It's been 22 months since former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed to head a special investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential ...

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Palmer Report: Robert Mueller didn’t come out of retirement just to file this report and go home. What’s really up his sleeve tonight?

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:36:46 -0400

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller has filed a report about his investigation with the Attorney General. Although no details of any kind have been revealed about the nature of the report, numerous pundits are painting this as the “end” of Mueller’s work. We’re here to tell you that Mueller didn’t come out of retirement and spend two years working on this case just so he could file a book report and go home.

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For that matter, Robert Mueller didn’t come out of retirement just to take down the likes of Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Mueller watched Donald Trump commit felony obstruction of justice by firing FBI Director James Comey to try to shut down this investigation. When Mueller took over the probe, it became about more than just the Trump-Russia scandal; it became about Donald Trump’s crimes.

We don’t know what Robert Mueller’s gameplan is for bringing Donald Trump to justice, but we know there is one, or Mueller wouldn’t have taken the job. Mueller could be planning anything from having the SDNY indict Trump any minute now, to spelling out in his report that Trump should be indicted.

As this plays out in the coming hours and days, keep this in mind: no matter how many times the TV pundits insist that no new indictments have accompanied Robert Mueller’s report, they don’t know this. They don’t know what indictments may or may not be under seal, or what might be unsealed and when. Until actual news breaks, the pundits are largely just going to spin the current lack of information into a worst case scenario, because that’s what they think will scare you into staying tuned in.

One even bigger thing to keep in mind: although Robert Mueller’s mandate was to investigate the Trump-Russia election scandal, whenever he’s uncovered alleged crimes that fall outside that mandate, he’s handed them off to U.S. Attorneys’ offices for prosecution. For instance, Michael Cohen is headed to prison for crimes that have basically nothing to do with Trump-Russia. So you can fully expect that Mueller has referred for prosecution all the alleged crimes he’s uncovered on the part of everyone in Donald Trump’s orbit. This isn’t over; today is the starting point.

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"Russian Intelligence services and international organized crime" - Google News: Here’s Everyone Robert Mueller Charged - BuzzFeed News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:34:03 -0400

Here’s Everyone Robert Mueller Charged BuzzFeed News

Mueller indicted more than three dozen individuals for a variety of crimes during his investigation, including top Trump campaign officials and members of ...

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"trump investigated by the fbi" - Google News: Robert Mueller Submits Report On Russia Investigation to Attorney General Barr - KRCC

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:32:35 -0400

Robert Mueller Submits Report On Russia Investigation to Attorney General Barr KRCC

Updated at 5:32 p.m. ET Attorney General William Barr received a report by special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday that summed up the findings from.

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"Rudy Giuliani" - Google News: Timeline: Big moments in Mueller investigation of Russian meddling in 2016 U.S. election - KFGO News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:24:32 -0400

Timeline: Big moments in Mueller investigation of Russian meddling in 2016 U.S. election KFGO News

(Reuters) - Here is a timeline of significant developments in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential ...

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"Do police officers shootings increase trump election chances?" - Google News: Donald Trump's Controversial Golan Heights Gamble - The National Interest Online

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:21:41 -0400

Donald Trump's Controversial Golan Heights Gamble The National Interest Online

The Golan is one of the most important strategic locations in the region that borders Israel and Syria.

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Donald Trump: The Robert Mueller investigation: cast of characters

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:19:58 -0400

Who’s who in the drama that has gripped the US for almost two years

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Palmer Report: Robert Mueller just issued his report about Donald Trump. Here we go…

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:18:13 -0400

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller has just submitted a report about his Trump-Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr, according to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other major news outlets. This of course raises more questions than answers, but suffice it to say that things are about to get very real.

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As of this moment, there are no real details available about what Robert Mueller’s report says, or what it even covers. Some major news outlets are characterizing the submission of this report as the “end” of Mueller’s investigation, but we’re not sure we buy that notion, considering that just a few hours ago evidence surfaced that Mueller’s grand jury is still ongoing in at least one criminal case. Regardless, all heck is about to break loose in rapid fashion. Here’s what you can expect.

William Barr now has to decide how much of Robert Mueller’s report to give to Congress. Keep in mind that whatever Barr gives to Congress, it’ll almost surely get promptly leaked to the public. Barr knows this, so he could decide to make a simultaneous public release. In any case, if the Democrats in Congress believe that Barr’s version of the Mueller report is incomplete or inaccurate, they’ll quickly take steps to get their hands on the whole thing.

We’ll see what happens on the indictment front. Rudy Giuliani has spent all day insisting that Robert Mueller won’t bring any more indictments, but he’s consistently unreliable, and again, as of today Mueller is still trying to push a witness into appearing before a grand jury, whose sole purpose is to bring indictments. If Mueller has built criminal cases against additional people, he can easily hand them off to the SDNY or other permanent federal prosecutors. If there are sealed indictments in play, they could surface at any moment for all we know.

Of course the central question here is what Robert Mueller’s report reveals about Donald Trump’s crimes, the Trump 2016 campaign’s criminal connections to the Kremlin, and what the Trump-Russia scandal was really all about. We’re about to officially find out soon. In the meantime, expect Trump’s allies to spin this report as inaccurately as possible, even as pundits everywhere are left to take mere guesses about what’s in it. Take everything you hear today with a grain of salt.

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Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices: Document: Attorney General Barr Announces Receipt of Mueller Report

Quinta Jurecic — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:17:24 -0400

In a letter to the House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary, Attorney General William Barr notified committee leadership that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has completed his investigation and submitted his report to Barr. Barr's letter is available here and in full below.

Barr Letter (PDF)

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"Russia influence in Eastern Europe" - Google News: World disapproves of US leadership's performance - Kerem Alkin - Daily Sabah

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:17:10 -0400

World disapproves of US leadership's performance - Kerem Alkin Daily Sabah

Two reports carried out in 133 countries by Gallup, one of the world's most well-known research companies, point to an increased dissatisfaction with the...

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"2016 elections anxiety" - Google News: Christchurch brings global white supremacist threat into sharp relief - The Christian Science Monitor

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:17:00 -0400

Christchurch brings global white supremacist threat into sharp relief The Christian Science Monitor

White supremacist terrorism is on the rise around the world. The attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, has brought new awareness of the long-underestimated ...

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Politics: With corporate tax receipts sagging, the federal deficit hits a monthly high

Philip Bump — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:15:58 -0400

Trump once said he loves debt. He seems determined to prove it.

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Donald Trump | The Guardian: Mueller report: special counsel delivers findings of Trump-Russia inquiry

Jon Swaine in New York — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:15:55 -0400

Submission to attorney general signals end of criminal inquiry
Barr: ‘I remain committed to as much transparency as possible’
Robert Mueller submits report – live updates

Robert Mueller, the special counsel, has filed a report to William Barr, the US attorney general, on the findings of his Trump-Russia investigation.

Barr said in a letter to chairmen of congressional committees on Friday afternoon that he had received Mueller’s report and anticipated that he could inform them of its main conclusions “as soon as this weekend”.

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"Trump and Russia" - Google News: Robert Mueller concludes his Trump-Russia probe, delivers report to Attorney General William Barr - Vancouver Sun

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:13:18 -0400

Robert Mueller concludes his Trump-Russia probe, delivers report to Attorney General William Barr Vancouver Sun

It's not yet clear how much of the report will become public.

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Donald Trump: Mueller delivers report on Trump-Russia investigation

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:13:07 -0400

Submission signals a conclusion to the long-running probe into election interference

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:13:00 -0400

Mueller delivers report on Trump-Russia investigation Financial Times

Submission signals a conclusion to the long-running probe into election interference.

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Donald Trump: Here’s What Else Stephen Moore, Trump’s Nominee For The Fed, Has Been Wrong About

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:10:42 -0400

The former campaign adviser has few credentials for the Federal Reserve board and a long history of being wrong about more than just the economy.

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"Putin and the Russian Mafia" - Google News: Who's who in the Trump-Russia affair: Names to watch for in Robert Mueller's upcoming report - The Globe and Mail

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:10:37 -0400

Who's who in the Trump-Russia affair: Names to watch for in Robert Mueller's upcoming report The Globe and Mail

The world is waiting anxiously for a special counsel's investigation to shed more light on the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. For nearly two years, his probe ...

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"Putin and American political process" - Google News: Robert Mueller has handed his report on Trump and Russia to attorney general William Barr - Daily Mail

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:09:00 -0400

Robert Mueller has handed his report on Trump and Russia to attorney general William Barr Daily Mail

Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his long-awaited report Friday to Attorney General Bill Barr, setting up a political battle over what's in it and how much ...

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"trump under federal investigation" - Google News: Robert Mueller Submits Report On Russia Investigation to Attorney General Barr - Capital Public Radio News

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:08:37 -0400

Robert Mueller Submits Report On Russia Investigation to Attorney General Barr Capital Public Radio News

In May 2017, the special counsel's office took over an FBI probe into Russian election interference that already had been underway for nearly a near. The report ...

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Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices: Recognizing Israel’s Claims to the Golan Heights: Trump’s Decision in Perspective

Scott R. Anderson — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:29:00 -0400

On Thursday, March 21, President Trump introduced yet another sea change to U.S. policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict—this time by tweet. “After 52 years,” Trump wrote, “it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s [s]overeignty over the Golan Heights.”

Left unclear was whether the president was merely calling for U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights or actually implementing it. National security adviser John Bolton later tweeted out his agreement on top of the president’s statement a few hours later, but the government otherwise failed to provide further information: The State Department referred reporters’ questions to the White House, where officials declined to elaborate on what the president had tweeted. For most of the afternoon, the closest thing to an official statement came from the State Department’s Twitter account, which simply retweeted Bolton without further comment.

Instead, the first person to confirm the change in U.S. policy was none other than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking next to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem, Netanyahu claimed to have discussed the decision with President Trump. Speaking in both English and Hebrew, he described the decision as a “miracle of Purim” and tied it to Israel’s ongoing conflict with Iran, stating:

President Trump made history. He recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, at a time when Iran is trying to use the Golan Heights as a platform for the destruction of Israel. We are commemorating the miracle of Purim, when, 2,500 years ago, the Jewish people triumphed over the other Persians who tried to exterminate it. They will fail today, as they failed then, amongst other things thanks to the immense support of the United States and a president that is the greatest friend Israel ever had in our entire history.

Only then did Netanyahu turn the stage over to Pompeo, who, in a rambling statement, seemed to confirm that the president’s tweet had not been merely hortatory: U.S. policy toward the Golan Heights had in fact changed. “President Trump made the decision to recognize that that hard-fought real estate, that important place,” he said, “is proper to be a sovereign part of the state of Israel.”

The apparently slapdash rollout of this decision is an uncomfortable fit with the complex and hotly contested political history of the Golan Heights. A strategically significant plateau along Israel’s northeast border with Syria, the Golan Heights provide a vantage point into neighboring parts of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria, and—in at least some formulations—border the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The status of the territory has been in dispute since the state of Israel was founded, as the 1949 armistice line that was ultimately reached between Israeli and Syrian forces did not align with the borders of the pre-1948 British mandates of Palestine and Syria, which Israel maintains should have been the starting point for the border between the two countries.

Regardless, Israel seized control of the entirety of the Golan Heights in the Six Day War of 1967. In response to that conflict, the U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 242, which (in its English version) called for the “[w]ithdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict” and “acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every state in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries.” Israel, however, retained control of the Golan Heights, an act it justified in part by pointing to linguistic ambiguities across the English and French versions of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 and its endorsement of “secure ... boundaries.” After Syria tried unsuccessfully to reclaim the Golan Heights in the 1973 October War, the two parties agreed to a ceasefire line through U.N.-sponsored negotiations, which was secured by a demilitarized zone and a U.N. Disengagement Observer Force, both of which remain in place to this day. In effect, this left most of the Golan Heights under Israeli control. (Notably, Lebanon also claims ownership over the Shebaa farms area of the Golan Heights, which remains in Israeli control.)

Israeli settlement activity in the Golan Heights began in earnest in the 1970s and has continued since that time. In 1981, Israel’s Knesset adopted a law that sought to formally annex the Golan Heights and incorporate them into the Israeli state. Again acting unanimously, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 497 declaring such action “null and void and without international legal effect,” on the grounds that the acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible under the U.N. Charter and that the Golan Heights remained subject to the international law governing military occupation, which prohibits such annexation. In spite of this opposition by the international community, the de facto incorporation of the Golan Heights into the state of Israel has largely continued unabated, to the point that the region has become a center for Israeli-oriented tourism, wine-making, and even skiing. And while the native Syrian Arab and Druze populations have mostly retained their Syrian identity, a growing minority of the latter have pursued Israeli nationality—despite concerns that legislation recently adopted by Israel’s Knesset will render them and other non-Jewish Israelis secondary to Israel’s Jewish citizens.

Until yesterday, the United States had maintained a consistent position on the Golan Heights across Democratic and Republican presidential administrations, declining to recognize any fixed borders absent negotiations between Israel and Syria while promising to give weight to Israeli territorial claims and demands for a secure border. Trump’s announcement not only disrupts this policy but arguably runs counter to the international law principle that informed U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 and 497: Namely, the obligation to “refrain ... from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state” embedded in Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter.

The Trump administration’s unorthodox roll-out suggests that the motivation for this decision was primarily political. Netanyahu, a fellow traveler with close ties to many of Trump’s own supporters, is facing indictment on an array of corruption-related criminal charges. This has severely weakened his standing headed into Israel’s upcoming April 9 parliamentary elections, which may deprive him of power if he loses—or allow him to weather the criminal charges against him if he wins. The fact that the president made his decision during Pompeo’s visit makes clear that Netanyahu has the support of the Trump administration, which is widely popular in Israel due to Trump’s 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. President Trump may also see some domestic political advantage in the move, as members of his Republican Party have increasingly used Israel-related statements and policies to drive a wedge between those Democrats who have traditionally been strong supporters of Israel and the increasing proportion that are openly critical of certainly Israeli policies, painting the latter--and in some cases the broader Democratic Party itself--as anti-Israel or even anti-semitic. President Trump has himself engaged in such rhetoric in recent weeks, and may well see his Golan Heights decision as rowing in the same direction as these efforts.

Whatever the international response, there is no doubt that Trump has the constitutional authority to make recognition decisions regarding a foreign state’s territorial boundaries as a matter of U.S. law. The Supreme Court affirmed as much in its 2015 decision in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, which upheld the Obama administration’s authority to disregard a statute that sought to compel U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem. Yet the fact that the president’s Golan Heights decision appears to be in such clear tension with the U.N. Charter does at least raise the question as to whether it is consistent with his constitutional duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed[,]” particularly as the Constitution expressly includes such treaties as part of the “Supreme Law of the Land.” Regardless, it’s highly unlikely that a U.S. court will ever take up this issue, leaving Trump’s new policy in place--at least until one of his successors changes it. Some members of Congress have indicated that they intend to introduce legislation that would hedge against this possibility, prevent future presidents from doing so, but this would almost certainly be unconstitutional under Zivotofsky. That said, alternate measures that rely on authorities that are more clearly within Congress’s constitutional control—including one proposal that would statutorily mandate that the Golan Heights be treated as part of Israel for purposes of foreign commerce—may be more legally defensible and thus harder for future presidents to reverse without congressional cooperation.

The international response to the president’s decision, meanwhile, has been almost overwhelmingly negative. The Arab League condemned the move as unlawful under international law, as did Turkey and Iran. The Assad regime in Syria went further, proclaiming its intent to recover the Golan Heights from Israel’s unlawful occupation “through all available means.” The European Union did not condemn the president’s decision but confirmed that its own longstanding policy—one that views the Golan Heights as occupied territories under international law—has not changed. Russia, meanwhile, noted that such an action would violate various U.N. Security Council decisions and could destabilize the region. “It is just a call for now,” a Russian spokesman said, raising doubts about whether the president’s statement truly reflected a change in U.S. policy. “Let’s hope it will remain a call.”

And the Russian spokesperson has a point: The exact contours of the Trump administration’s new policy remain unknown, and there is ample room for obfuscation. This was the tack that the Trump administration took with its Jerusalem decision, which recognized that city as Israel’s capital to much fanfare but ultimately declined to identify the “specific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty,” leaving them “subject to final status negotiations” with the Palestinians. Trump administration officials are reportedly working on a written statement to clarify the new U.S. policy towards the Golan Heights, which Trump will sign at a meeting with Netanyahu next week in Washington. No one should be surprised if that statement embraces similar ambiguity in an effort to salvage whatever is left of the policy equities that the prior longstanding U.S. policy had attempted to preserve. And there are at least three, all of which seem likely to be negatively affected by the Trump administration’s decision.

First and foremost is the U.S. commitment to the prohibition on the use of force embedded in the U.N. Charter, which—despite being stretched in sometimes uncomfortable ways—remains a keystone of the post-World War II international order. Banning territorial expansion by conquest was one of the signature purposes of the U.N. Charter, and endorsing the Israeli accession of “hard-fought real estate” in the Golan Heights, in Pompeo’s words, runs contrary to this purpose. No doubt the situation in the Golan is complicated, and there are arguments that U.S. and Israeli international lawyers will pursue in an effort to square this circle somehow. But the effect within the international community will almost certainly be a weakening of this principle, and the international order that is structured on it. Moreover, this principal has been the primary basis on which the United States has rallied international support against various questionable actions by other states, including the Russian annexation of Crimea and China’s claims in the South China Sea. After Trump’s recognition of Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights, these efforts may be seen as increasingly hypocritical and thus warranting less support.

Second is the effective detente that has existed between Israel and Syria over the Golan Heights since the 1970s. This has been to the substantial benefit of Israel, which has been able to exercise control over the Golan Heights in relative security and de facto incorporate the area into the Israeli economy, society and state apparatus. Trump’s announcement seems likely to reinvigorate this dispute, as the Assad regime’s strident response makes clear. Moreover, a confluence of factors make a Syrian response more likely: Assad is currently intent on recovering territorial control, concerned about possible secession by the U.S.-backed Kurds and already irked at Israeli strikes against Iran-affiliated targets in its territory. The latter is also the most likely area in which Israel will suffer repercussions, as its anti-Iran military campaign is reliant on the tacit cooperation of Assad’s Russian allies, who effectively control Syrian airspace and could restrict or oppose their operations in retaliation. Israeli relations with Lebanon—where Hezbollah, another Iranian ally, continues to exercise substantial influence—may also take a hit, as the president’s decision appears to affirm Israeli claims over the Shebaa farms region. All told, by aggravating these old conflicts and putting Israel’s current military operations at risk, it’s unclear whether the president’s decision will help or hurt Israel’s strategic position vis-a-vis Iran in the long run.

Finally, Trump’s decision is almost certain to seriously compromise hopes for a negotiated solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, including his own supposedly forthcoming peace plan. For several decades, these negotiations have relied on Resolution 242 and its endorsement of the 1967 borders as a starting point for negotiations. Israel has repeatedly accepted this premise, including in its peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan as well as in the Oslo Accords it signed with the Palestinians—and has done so despite its de facto annexation of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, which most of the international community continues to view as illegal. Public U.S. endorsements of these activities not only adds fuel to widespread Arab objections over the illegality of these actions but undermines any remaining U.S. ability to act as a credible mediator, though the Trump administration’s increasingly open hostility towards the Palestinian leadership may have already dealt the latter a fatal blow.

When Trump recognized Israel’s claims to Jerusalem as its capital, he described his action as “nothing more, or less, than a recognition of reality”—namely, the fact that Israeli ties to Jerusalem were real and unlikely to be unwound in any future scenario. The administration may well argue much the same in regard to the Golan Heights. And there is some truth to this claim, particularly given that Syria’s broader future remains very much in doubt. Whatever practical validity Israeli claims may have, however, they cannot be confirmed by fiat. To the contrary, such declarations, if anything, have a tendency to result in feelings of opposition and resentment—not to mention legal claims—that can come to threaten whatever status quo may emerge. The only sustainable resolution is negotiation towards some mutually agreeable outcome, one whose legitimacy both sides can accept in perpetuity.

This is the approach that has produced Israel’s current borders with Egypt and Jordan. And it was the same approach that the United States and the international community were attempting in regard to Israel’s border with Syria as well, however slowly. Trump’s decision to recognize Israeli claims in the Golan Heights promises to disrupt this process, perhaps fatally. The decision may be in the interest of the president and some of his political allies. But the same is not true of Israelis and the many others whose lives and livelihoods ultimately depend on long-term peace and stability in the region.

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Palmer Report: So much for Robert Mueller being done: new evidence surfaces today that his grand jury is ongoing

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:27:37 -0400

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Since yesterday we’ve been seeing major media reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller won’t be bringing any new indictments, and that he could be “wrapping up” his investigation as soon as today. Earlier today the media acknowledged that its source for the “no new indictments” story is the uber-unreliable Rudy Giuliani, which means there is no source, and therefore there is no story. Now evidence has surfaced this afternoon that Mueller’s grand jury is still ongoing.

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Robert Mueller hauled a large number of Stone associates in front of the grand jury, who then turned around and identified themselves to the media. Their various connections to Stone revealed that Mueller was investigating a wide swath of Stone’s life which went far beyond the Trump-Russia scandal and the 2016 election. But when Stone was arrested, it was on a very limited seven-count indictment. So what happened to the rest of the case that Mueller was building against Stone?

Stone associate Andrew Miller famously refused to testify, and tried a number of legal challenges against Mueller. Days after Stone’s arrest, CNN reported that Mueller still wanted Miller to testify to the grand jury about Stone. This suggested that Mueller was planning to try to bring superseding indictments against Stone. This afternoon, Miller told the Atlantic that Mueller is still trying to get him to testify before the grand jury.

The key distinction here is grand jury as opposed to trial jury. Robert Mueller isn’t trying to get Miller to testify at Roger Stone’s eventual trial on the existing charges. Instead, he’s pushing Miller to testify before a grand jury – and keep in mind that a grand jury’s only purpose is to bring indictments. So this means that Mueller’s grand jury is still a thing, and that Mueller intends to put more witnesses in front of it, and that Mueller intends to bring additional indictments.

This brings us back to Rudy Giuliani’s new claim that Robert Mueller doesn’t intend to bring any more indictments. This is obviously incorrect. Rudy could theoretically come back and try to argue that he’s only referring to indictments against new people, not new indictments against people who have already been indicted. But Rudy lies so often, there’s no reason to believe him on this anyway. And if Mueller isn’t indicting any new people, it would be because he’s handing off any remaining criminal cases to SDNY or other federal prosecutors, as he’s already done with Michael Cohen and others. In any case, we now we know that as of right now, Mueller isn’t done.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:44:54 -0400

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Trump reverses latest North Korea sanctions because he 'likes Kim' – live news The Guardian

White House confirms Trump is to withdraw recently announced North Korea-related sanctions imposed by US treasury.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:36:24 -0400

President’s volte-face on action is striking rebuke of his own national security team

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:32:21 -0400

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Surveys show two-thirds of the country see Trump as the most divisive president in recent history.

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Palmer Report: The story of Julian Assange and the DOJ fugitive plane just took a stranger turn

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:00:58 -0400

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Last night we brought you the story of how the Department of Justice had sent an airplane from Manassas, where its fugitive retrieval agents are based, to London. The unanswered question was whether or not the flight was sent to retrieve Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the London basement he’s been holed up in. WikiLeaks then raised the stakes by expressing concern about the flight on Twitter. Now the story has taken another strange turn.

For months it’s been widely reported that Ecuador was preparing to turn Julian Assange over to the UK government. This was around the same time the DOJ accidentally revealed, via a botched redaction, that Assange had already been secretly charged with unspecified crimes. Considering that the UK has an extradition treaty with the U.S., this seemed like a de facto way for Ecuador to turn Assange over to the DOJ and/or Special Counsel Robert Mueller. So the question going into today was whether we’d see any action at the embassy which might suggest that a transfer is indeed going to happen.

Sure enough, police have now surrounded the Ecuadorian embassy today. This is coming from the Daily Mail, which is not a particularly reputable publication – but it’s provided video of the police out front, so this story is indeed verifiable.

So now we have a DOJ fugitive plane dispatched to London, even as police surround the building in London where Julian Assange is holed up, and we know that the DOJ has already criminally charged Assange. Sure, this could all be a coincidence. The plane could be there for unrelated reasons, and the police could be assembling for unrelated reasons. But at the least, this is worth watching to see what happens next.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia and whether the president obstructed the investigation.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:50:31 -0400

Will Bosnia and Herzegovina Ever Rise Above Its Ethnic Divisions? Fair Observer

Bosnia and Herzegovina seems more like an artificial construct created by an international agreement than an organic sovereign state.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia and whether the president obstructed the investigation.

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The United States is channeling a tougher approach as Trump's negotiators head to China this weekend.

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US had blacklisted Chinese shipping companies on Thursday
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Donald Trump has announced that he is ordering the withdrawal of recently announced North Korea-related sanctions imposed by the US treasury department.

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UN Experts Rebuke US ‘Threats’, Visa Ban on ICC Investigators Independent Journal Review

United Nations human rights experts called on the United States on Friday to stop its "threats" and visa bans against the International Criminal Court (ICC), which ...

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:29:00 -0400

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The fine publication First Things can do better. It has produced a manifesto of sorts for a new conservatism, supposedly making a major break from “the ...

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:19:44 -0400

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Silverii: Proposing secession as a solution to losing elections isn’t governing The Denver Post

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President attacks special counsel's Russia investigation again as Washington braces for report on findings. Follow the latest news.

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As Washington waits for Robert Mueller to turn over his investigation findings to the justice department, Trump says ‘people will not stand for it’

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Donald Trump has intensified his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation in his latest effort to undermine the findings in Mueller’s highly anticipated report, saying “people will not stand for it”.

The investigation is widely expected to end in the coming weeks, but Trump was focused on its beginnings rather than its conclusion, complaining about Rob Rosenstein’s appointment of Mueller in May 2017. The deputy attorney general appointed the special counsel after Trump fired James Comey, the FBI director who was leading an investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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MIAMI (WSET) -- A year after 17 people lost their lives in a mass shooting, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School community is mourning another loss.

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Jeffrey Frankel — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:54:12 -0400

US-Japan agreement on structural reforms in 1990 could be model for current China talks

President Donald Trump has postponed until at least April the supposed deadline for concluding the United States’ trade negotiations with China. A good outcome for both sides would be reached if China agreed to protect property rights better and reduce the state’s role in its economy; the US agreed to strengthen national saving and public investment; and both sides agreed to reverse their recent tariff increases. Unfortunately, this is not the deal that is likely to materialise.

For starters, Trump fixates on the bilateral US merchandise trade deficit. The Chinese could probably deliver on the verifiable – but worthless – step of committing to buy more US soybeans, natural gas and other commodities. But this would have little or no effect on the overall US trade balance because the US would export less soybeans and natural gas to other countries. Congressional Democrats would rightly point out that the gain was illusory, again highlighting the irrelevance of bilateral trade balances. The more meaningful measure – the overall US trade deficit – widened last year, the predictable result of Trump’s budget-busting fiscal policy.

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Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices: Brexit Endgame: European Union Takes Back Control

Amanda Sloat — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:50:07 -0400

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.

After the British Parliament defeated Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal with the European Union for a second time in mid-March, it narrowly supported a request to the EU for an extended Brexit deadline. This week, May asked for a three-month extension and her European counterparts granted a “flextension.” The deadline was pushed back two weeks, with leaders giving May until April 12 to pass her deal or “indicate a way forward.” If the deal does pass, she has until May 22 to adopt implementing legislation. Although March 29 is no longer the cliff edge, the Brexit endgame is still heading to the wire with no clear way forward.

Will There Be an Extension?

Yes. On March 20, May sent a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk requesting a technical extension until June 30 to allow time for the British Parliament to ratify her deal. She rejected a longer extension if the vote failed, given an aversion to holding European Parliament elections in late May, but did not explain what would happen in that scenario. Her request contravened advice from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who said May 22 was the EU’s limit. She had no answers for these issues when she met leaders at a European Council summit on March 21.

At the summit, EU-27 leaders agreed to extend the departure date by two weeks to April 12, the legal deadline by which Britain must decide whether to participate in European Parliament (EP) elections. If May’s deal is passed by March 29, the deadline will shift to May 22—allowing time for the British Parliament to pass implementing legislation and for the European Parliament to ratify the deal. If her third attempt fails, Britain has a short window to determine a new plan (including a request for a lengthy extension contingent on holding European elections) or prepare for a no-deal Brexit.

After efforts by the British Parliament to take control, the EU is now setting the timetable. The marathon summit discussions—held without May—reflected cracks in the EU’s previous unity, although they coalesced around a common approach. In particular, French President Emmanuel Macron assumed a hard line while German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and Tusk were more conciliatory.

What Happens Next?

May must first win cabinet backing for the EU’s offer, which seems likely. She must also pass through both houses the statutory instrumentrequired to amend U.K. legislation that set March 29 as Brexit day, which also seems likely. The bigger challenge remains getting her deal through Parliament, which was not helped by her March 20 statement blaming members of Parliament (MPs) for their intransigence.

On March 25, the government will present a motion to Parliament. As before, MPs can amend this motion with their preferred approaches—which may include indicative votes on options. At some point during the week, MPs will take their third meaningful vote on May’s deal. If it passes, she needs the coalition of supporters to hold together long enough to adopt implementing legislation.

Will May's Deal Pass?

Probably not, as May must persuade at least 75 MPs to back her deal. She will build on lobbying efforts undertaken in anticipation of a third vote this past week, which was scuppered by the surprise ruling of Speaker John Bercow barring the government from bringing forward a motion that was not “fundamentally different” from the last version. Attorney General Geoffrey Cox sought to reassure Brexiteers by updating his legal advice, suggesting the Vienna Convention would allow the U.K. to leave the backstop if there was a “fundamental change of circumstance.” The government is continuing talks with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), including discussions of a “Stormont Lock” (suggesting any EU regulations applied to Northern Ireland would be extended to the rest of the U.K.), a role for the Northern Ireland Assembly (which has been suspended for over two years), and reported pledges of additional funding for the region. Reflecting the lack of trust in this process, all sides are seeking to ensure current promises will be upheld in the future.

There is still no clarity on May’s Plan B. In remarks after the summit, Tusk said all options remain on the table until April 12. At that point, the U.K. must pass the deal, pursue a no-deal Brexit, revoke Article 50, or accept a long extension. When reporters asked May about his comments, she ruled out revoking Article 50.

Why Are European Parliament Elections So Central to Brexit Deadlines?

In anticipation of Brexit, the EU planned institutional changes to its legislature—including reducing the current number of members and reallocating some vacated British seats to other countries. When European leaders considered possible extension dates, they focused on the implications for EP elections. If the U.K. remains in the EU but does not hold EP elections, it could disenfranchise EU nationals living in the U.K. and make EU decisions taken with an incomplete parliament subject to legal challenge. At the same time, there are concerns that British EP elections could lead to pro-Brexit members who hinder debates about the EU’s new budget and planned institutional reforms. European leaders also worry a disastrous no-deal Brexit on the eve of EP elections could fuel populist support across the continent.

Key dates are:

April 12: Deadline for the U.K. to declare its intention to participate in EP elections (if deal is not adopted), including beginning domestic preparations for elections
April 18: Last business day of current European Parliament
May 22: Deadline for the U.K. to conclude Brexit ratification process (if deal is adopted)
May 23-26: European Parliament elections
July 2: First business day of new European Parliament

Is No-Deal Brexit Still a Serious Possibility?

The cliff edge has been pushed from March 29 to April 12. European leaders, despite the tough talk of Macron and others, do not want to be blamed for a catastrophic no-deal Brexit or harm the Irish border. The British Parliament has also (narrowly) expressed its opposition to this outcome. However, it remains a possibility: May notably refused to rule out the option when she arrived at the summit and the EU has hardened its insistence on conditionality for a longer extension. It could also happen by accident.

The U.K. government is increasing its contingency planning for a no-deal Brexit, with press reports citing a taskforce in a nuclear-proof bunker under the Defense Ministry with 3,500 troops on standby, possible food and water shortages, and teachers prepared to care for stranded children whose parents may be trapped in gridlock. Meanwhile, the deputy speaker advised MPs to take taxis or travel with colleagues amid increasing security concerns in the final days of Brexit debates.

Will There Be No Brexit or a Second Referendum?

Over 3 million people have signed a petition calling for the government to revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU, with the rapid pace of additional signatures causing the website to crash. On March 23, hundreds of thousands of people will march in London to call for a second referendum. However, there is not sufficient support in Parliament for either option.

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Who has Robert Mueller already indicted in his investigation? Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Matthew T. Mangino: FBI uses secret tracking device in Cohen investigation The State Journal-Register

This week the search warrants related to the investigation of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, were unsealed.

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Trump insists 'no collusion' with Russia as Mueller report rumors swirl – live The Guardian

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Fox News has reportedly banned Sebastian Gorka from its hard news shows The Week Magazine

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Trump, Pence returning to Nevada next month to speak at Republican Jewish Coalition event The Nevada Independent

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The Tyranny of Experts | Mark Bauerlein First Things

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Gaetz drafting 'Green Real Deal' climate resolution POLITICO

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The worst reason ever not to run for president The Washington Post

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The worst reason ever not to run for president The Washington Post

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Fox News has normalized a lie about the Steele dossier Vox.com

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Palmer Report: The source for the media’s “Robert Mueller isn’t indicting anyone else” narrative is… RUDY GIULIANI?

Bill Palmer — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:23:18 -0400

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When a report surfaced from ABC News earlier this week which claimed Robert Mueller isn’t planning to indict anyone else, Palmer Report pointed out two problems with the story. First, this could simply mean that he’s handing off additional indictments to SDNY and other federal prosecutors. Second, Team Trump has a recent history of planting these kinds of stories, and convincing the media to pass them off as having come from “sources familiar with the investigation.” We didn’t know how right we were.

Today, NBC News and others are also pushing the narrative about Robert Mueller not indicting anyone else, and they’re flat out admitting that their source is Rudy Giuliani. Seriously? RUDY GIULIANI? First of all, the guy lies constantly, and therefore isn’t a reliable source for anything. Second, how would Rudy, of all people, know what Mueller is about to do?

This comes after a similar major media story last month claimed that Robert Mueller would be done with his investigation within a week. This was obviously a false story, and in hindsight, you have to wonder if Rudy Giuliani was the media’s “source” for this story as well.

The other half of today’s prevailing media narrative is that Robert Mueller could turn in his report today. We have no idea if this is true. But if the media is also getting this story from Rudy Giuliani, then suffice it to say: consider the source.

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Trump insists 'no collusion' with Russia as Mueller report rumors swirl – live The Guardian

President attacks special counsel's Russia investigation again as Washington braces for report on findings. Follow the latest news.

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Capsules of American League Central teams, listed in order of finish last year: ___. Cleveland Indians. 2018: 91-71, first place, lost to Houston in Division Series.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:58:00 -0400

Italy takes China's new Silk Road to the heart of Europe EUobserver

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Trump says he will nominate Fed critic Stephen Moore for central bank appointment CNBC

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:48:00 -0400

Russian hackers target European governments ahead of EU elections NS Tech

Russian hackers have launched a spearphishing campaign against a number of European governments ahead of EU parliamentary elections in June.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:47:47 -0400

Hillary Clinton Talked to the FBI, but Trump Refused Washington Monthly

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Rudy Giuliani compares Mueller investigation report to "waiting for a baby" Axios

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Rudy Giuliani compares Mueller investigation report to "waiting for a baby" Axios

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:43:00 -0400

Michael Bloomberg bashes 'Beto or whatever his name is' over apologies Daily Mail

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:40:00 -0400

Papa John's scores Shaq to help revive its image WEAR

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:40:00 -0400

Papa John's scores Shaq to help revive its image WEAR

NEW YORK (AP) — Papa John's has a new pitchman: Shaquille O'Neal. The chain says basketball Hall of Famer will appear on TV commercials and promoted ...

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:38:00 -0400

President Donald Trump to nominate Stephen Moore, to Federal Reserve Press Herald

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says he will nominate Stephen Moore, a prominent conservative economist, to fill a vacancy on the Federal Reserve's ...

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Prominent conservative has been a major supporter of the president’s economic agenda

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:37:00 -0400

Trump to nominate Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve board Financial Times

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:32:58 -0400

FBI Tried to Take Out Trump The New American

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:32:58 -0400

FBI Tried to Take Out Trump The New American

It was a stunning moment. A highly placed Deep State operative told the truth. Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI, confessed on 60 Minutes ...

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:31:00 -0400

Trump insists 'no collusion' with Russia as Mueller report rumors swirl – live The Guardian

President attacks special counsel's Russia investigation again as Washington braces for report on findings. Follow the latest news.

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"trump russian money" - Google News: ISIS Territorial Caliphate 'Eliminated In Syria,' White House Says. But Threats Remain - NPR

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:30:00 -0400

ISIS Territorial Caliphate 'Eliminated In Syria,' White House Says. But Threats Remain NPR

On Friday, en route to Florida aboard Air Force One, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced that ISIS' "territorial caliphate has been eliminated ...

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:27:00 -0400

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The White House says that all Islamic State held territory in Syria has been"100 percent" eliminated. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters ...

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Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:27:00 -0400

Islamic State territory in Syria eliminated, according to White House officials NBC 15 WPMI

The White House says that all Islamic State held territory in Syria has been"100 percent" eliminated. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters ...

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1. Trump Circles: Elections from Michael_Novakhov (16 sites): "roger stone" - Google News: Jimmy Kimme on Trump: 'The most narcissistic personality of the year' - The Guardian

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:23:00 -0400

Jimmy Kimme on Trump: 'The most narcissistic personality of the year' The Guardian

Late-night hosts dissected the president's narcissism, Deutsche Bank loans, and reparations for the descendants of slaves.

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"Rudy Giuliani" - Google News: Giuliani likens Mueller to waiting for a baby: If all goes well for Trump, 'I'll give out cigars' | TheHill - The Hill

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:15:01 -0400

Giuliani likens Mueller to waiting for a baby: If all goes well for Trump, 'I'll give out cigars' | TheHill The Hill

President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani compared waiting for the Mueller report to waiting for a baby in an interview with.

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1. Trump Circles: Elections from Michael_Novakhov (16 sites): "Rudy Giuliani" - Google News: Giuliani likens Mueller to waiting for a baby: If all goes well for Trump, 'I'll give out cigars' | TheHill - The Hill

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:15:01 -0400

Giuliani likens Mueller to waiting for a baby: If all goes well for Trump, 'I'll give out cigars' | TheHill The Hill

President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani compared waiting for the Mueller report to waiting for a baby in an interview with.

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"Putin Trump" - Google News: Trump news - live: Outrage over president's fresh attack on late John McCain’s 'very evil purposes', as anger mounts over Golan Heights declaration - The Independent

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:15:00 -0400

Trump news - live: Outrage over president's fresh attack on late John McCain’s 'very evil purposes', as anger mounts over Golan Heights declaration The Independent

Donald Trump has yet again attacked John McCain in an interview with Fox Business, calling out the late senator's “very evil purposes” in handing the FBI the ...

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"trump anxiety" - Google News: YungBlud on Xanax, anxiety and Michael Jackson - Telegraph.co.uk

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:14:00 -0400

YungBlud on Xanax, anxiety and Michael Jackson Telegraph.co.uk

YungBlud has one request before this interview begins.

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"Rudy Giuliani" - Google News: Rudy's Long History of Quashing Trump Probes - Village Voice

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:11:02 -0400

Rudy's Long History of Quashing Trump Probes Village Voice

Donald Trump has operated amid a swamp of corruption, self-dealing, and outright criminality ever since his real estate–developer father gifted him his first ...

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1. Trump Circles: Elections from Michael_Novakhov (16 sites): "Rudy Giuliani" - Google News: Rudy's Long History of Quashing Trump Probes - Village Voice

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:11:02 -0400

Rudy's Long History of Quashing Trump Probes Village Voice

Donald Trump has operated amid a swamp of corruption, self-dealing, and outright criminality ever since his real estate–developer father gifted him his first ...

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"Rudy Giuliani" - Google News: Trump warns 'people will not stand' for Mueller report if it portrays him badly – live - The Guardian

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:06:00 -0400

Trump warns 'people will not stand' for Mueller report if it portrays him badly – live The Guardian

President insisted 'there's no collusion' in interview with Fox as Washington braces for release of Trump-Russia investigation findings.

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"trump electorate" - Google News: Two Reasons Why Joe Biden Is Not Jeb Bush 2.0 - National Review

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:06:00 -0400

Two Reasons Why Joe Biden Is Not Jeb Bush 2.0 National Review

President Trump has privately “fixated” on Joe Biden as a strong potential candidate, but Trump's aides have assured him that Biden is “doomed” in a ...

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