December 11, 2017 Archives

Week of December 11, 2017 Archives

RCI - Trump, Russia and the Beltway

Monday, December 11

EPA Enforcement Down Markedly

Danielle Ivory & Eric Lipton, New York Times

Trump Boasts of Killing Regs Already Dead

Alan Levin, Jesse Hamilton, Bloomberg

George Papadopoulos: Rapid Rise, Dramatic Fall in Greece

Griff Witte, Wash. Post

Trump Can Disclose FISA Files. Why Won't He?

Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review

Trump Inauguration Protesters Face Felony Charges

Ryan J. Reilly, HuffPost

Putin's Not a Supervillian; He's a Gambler

Julia Ioffe, Atlantic

Tuesday, December 12

White House Hides Troop Numbers in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

Olivier Knox, Yahoo

Project Veritas Donors Revealed

Lachlan Markay & Asawin Suebsaeng, Daily Beast

Dossier Go-Between: Brit Ex-Spy Urged Handoff to McCain

Browne et al., Fox News

CIA's Morell Now Sees Things From Trump's Perspective

Byron York, DC Examiner

GPS's Range of Corporate, Political Targets Exposed

Shawn Boburg, Jack Gillum, WP

Wife of Demoted DOJ Official Worked for Fusion GPS

James Rosen, Jake Gibson, Fox

Interior Dept. Pushing for Controversial New Road in Alaska

Bronstein et al., CNN

Supreme Court Got Suspect Evidence on Sentencing

Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

Whistleblower: Consumer Bureau Falsified Docs

Elizabeth Harrington, Free Beacon

Huge Fakery in Online Comments on Fed Regs

James V. Grimaldi, Paul Overberg, WSJ

Wednesday, December 13

2 Unexplained Recusals in GPS Cases by Judge, Ex-Boies Lawyer

Mueller Got Ethics Waiver That Justice Dept. Won't Describe

Josh Gerstein, Politico

Rep. Bobby Rush Sued for $1 Million for Unpaid Loan

Joe Schoffstall, DC Free Beacon

Trump's Stand-In Bureaucrats May Have Overstayed Limits

Josh Eidelson, B'berg

Steve Bannon's #War Against Twitter

Joseph Bernstein & Ryan Mac, BuzzFeed News

FBI Couple: Trump's a 'Douche' and Clinton 'Just Has to Win'

Schmidt et al., NY Times

Fusion GPS Hired DOJ Aide's Wife to Dig Dirt on Trump

Chuck Ross, Daily Caller

Mueller-Probe Couple's Texts on Trump: 'What an Utter Idiot'

Kelly Cohen, Examiner

Fusion GPS Admits DOJ Official's Wife Hired to Probe Trump

Jake Gibson, Fox News

Obama State Dept. Let Clinton Keep Call Logs, Schedules Secret

Judicial Watch

Docs Show Edits to Soften Comey's Clinton Finding

Jake Gibson, Judson Berger, Fox

Thursday, December 14

Rosenstein Defends Mueller vs. GOP Assault

Charlie Savage, Nicholas Fandos, NYT

FBI Pair's Texts Hinted Action to Prevent Trump Presidency

Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge

Irony: Dem Anger at Comey Led to Uncovering of Strzok Texts

FBI Anti-Trumpers Didn't Much Like Holder, Sanders Either

Del Quentin Wilber, WSJ

How Restaurants Go to Insane Lengths for Critics

Jessica Sidman, Washingtonian

Government's Secret Alliance With Big Oil

Jie Jenny Zou, Center for Public Integrity

Watchdog to Investigate Pruitt's $25K Booth of Silence

Stephanie Ebbs, ABC

Friday, December 15

Homeland Security Aide Promoted Birtherism

Kaczysnki et al. , CNN

EPA Hired Major GOP Oppo. Research Firm to Track Press

Leber et al., Mother Jones

FBI Appears to Have Investigated FOIA Requesters

Emma Best, Muckrock

Saturday, December 16

CDC Banned Words: Fetus, Transgender, Diversity

Juliet Eilperin & Lena H. Sun, WP

FBI Releases Damage-Control Emails on Lynch-Clinton Tarmac Meeting

fbi.gov

GOP Lawmaker: Top FBI Officials Will Be Subpoenaed

Kyle Cheney, Politico

FBI Violated Texting Duo's Due-Process Rights

Eli Lake, Bloomberg View