Saturday, December 17, 2016

RSN: Leaked Audio of Energy Transfer Partners CEO: After Trump's Win, Dakota Access Pipeline 'Is Going Through', If Donald Trump Is So Upset About Iraq WMD Lies, Why Would He Want to Hire John Bolton?




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Andy Borowitz | Putin Agrees to Receive Intelligence Briefings in Trump's Place 
Russian president Vladimir Putin. (photo: Alexnei Nikolosky/Getty) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "In what Donald Trump's transition-team members are calling a further example of international cooperation, Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to receive daily U.S. intelligence briefings in the place of the President-elect." 
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If Donald Trump Is So Upset About Iraq WMD Lies, Why Would He Want to Hire John Bolton? 
Jon Schwarz, The Intercept 
Schwarz writes: "The Bush administration, with Bolton as undersecretary of state for arms control, arrived in Washington, D.C., in 2001 with the goal of invading Iraq." 
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Trump's Pick for US Ambassador to Israel Is Frightening 
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, ThinkProgress 
Varkiani writes: "President-elect Donald Trump named David M. Friedman as ambassador to Israel on Thursday - proving that the Israel-Palestinian peace process is basically screwed for the next four years." 
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Senate Torture Report to Be Kept From Public for 12 Years After Obama Decision 
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK 
Ackerman writes: "Obama's agreement to preserve investigation into CIA's use of torture after 9/11 means classified document will remain restricted under Presidential Records Act." 
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The Children of Agent Orange 
Charles Ornstein and Hannah Fresques, ProPublica and Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot 
Excerpt: "A new analysis has found that the odds of having a child born with birth defects were more than a third higher for veterans exposed to Agent Orange than for those who weren't." 
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Patrick Cockburn | There's More Propaganda Than News Coming Out of Aleppo This Week 
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent 
Cockburn writes: "The dominance of propaganda over news in coverage of the war in Syria has many negative consequences." 
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Leaked Audio of Energy Transfer Partners CEO: After Trump's Win, Dakota Access Pipeline 'Is Going Through' 
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog 
Horn writes: "Shaun King, a writer for the New York Daily News, has uploaded what appears to be a recorded audio file of Energy Transfer Partners' Chief Operating Officer saying that 'election night changed everything' for the company as it relates to its embattled Dakota Access Pipeline." 
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