Tuesday, April 4, 2017

RSN: Erik Prince Held Secret Seychelles Meeting to Establish Trump-Putin Back Channel, Ex-Trump Adviser Carter Page Gave Energy Industry Documents to Russian Spy, Court Files Show




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Erik Prince Held Secret Seychelles Meeting to Establish Trump-Putin Back Channel 
Erik Prince. (photo: DN!) 
Adam Entous, Greg Miller, Kevin Sieff and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials." 
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Ex-Trump Adviser Carter Page Gave Energy Industry Documents to Russian Spy, Court Files Show 
Ali Watkins, BuzzFeed 
Watkins writes: "Carter Page told BuzzFeed News that he had been in contact with at least one Russian spy working undercover out of Moscow's UN office in 2013." 
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Sessions Takes Aim at Obama-Era Police Reforms 
Betsy Woodruff, The Daily Beast 
Woodruff writes: "On Monday night, Attorney General Jeff Sessions took his first big step to pull back the previous administration's increased scrutiny and oversight of local police departments." 
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Democrats Have the Votes to Block Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch 
Scott Detrow and Nina Totenberg, NPR 
Excerpt: "Forty-one Democratic senators have now publicly announced that they will vote against ending debate this week on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. That means Republicans cannot at this time clear the 60-vote threshold needed to proceed to an up-or-down vote on the nomination." 
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Will Trump's Prison Reform Policies Send More Innocent People to Jail? 
Jason Flom, Rolling Stone 
Flom writes: "How many innocent people will end up serving time in prison because of President Trump's policies? Of course, even one is too many, but if recent developments are any guide, it could be a lot more than that." 
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Syria: Suspected Chemical Attack Kills Dozens in Idlib Province 
Kareem Shaheen, Guardian UK 
Shaheen writes: "Dozens of people have been killed in a suspected chemical attack in northern Syria, aid workers and local activists have said, in one of the largest mass casualty incidents using a toxic gas in the six-year conflict." 
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'Gasland' Families Are Still Fighting the Company That Leaked Methane Into Their Water 
Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grist 
Merchant writes: "Forty families sued Texas-based Cabot, whose operations they said contaminated their drinking water with methane. Now a federal judge has thrown out the verdict, saying evidence that Cabot contaminated local water wells is tenuous." 
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