Gen Michael Hayden

✔@GenMhayden

“The C.I.A. stayed in its lane” and he did not “see any sign of improper C.I.A. activity,” Mr. Barr told the conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley A. Strassel.”
He should tell the president.

The Hill

✔@thehill

Baltimore’s new mayor announces multimillion-dollar effort to help provide food to those disproportionately hit by pandemic http://hill.cm/BrQQv0K 

Meet the Press

✔@MeetThePress

Full Panel: Trump downplays widespread U.S. security breachhttps://nbcnews.to/3mFy5DQ 

POLITICO

✔@politico

Lawmakers are closing out the deal ahead of a midnight government shutdown deadlinehttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/20/congress-dashes-final-approval-billion-stimulus-449026 …

Congress dashes toward final approval of $900 billion stimulus

Lawmakers are closing out the deal ahead of a midnight government shutdown deadline.

politico.com

Maria Van Kerkhove

✔@mvankerkhove

Thank you @BBCPolitics for having me on Andrew #Marr today about the #COVID19 virus variant recently reported in

More information about this variant can be found here:https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisation-of-an-emergent-sars-cov-2-lineage-in-the-uk-defined-by-a-novel-set-of-spike-mutations/563 … https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1340590544779681792

Preliminary genomic characterisation of an emergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage in the UK defined by a novel…

Preliminary genomic characterisation of an emergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage in the UK defined by a novel set of spike mutations Report written by: Andrew Rambaut1, Nick Loman2, Oliver Pybus3, Wendy…

virological.org

Sky News

✔@SkyNews

Brexit: Boris Johnson warned any UK-EU trade deal must please new ‘Red Wall’ MPs http://news.sky.com/story/brexit-boris-johnson-warned-any-uk-eu-trade-deal-must-please-new-red-wall-mps-12168669 …

Brexit: Boris Johnson warned any UK-EU trade deal must please new ‘Red Wall’ MPs

Talks are still continuing between UK and EU negotiators over a possible post-Brexit trade deal.

news.sky.com

Reuters

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Doping-Russian former weightlifting world champion Kashirina suspended – report http://reut.rs/3mBbJU3 

DEBKAfile English@debka_english

Passengers arriving from London fly back to escape enforced quarantine – https://is.gd/uLLj6I 

Passengers arriving from London fly back to escape enforced quarantine – DEBKAfile

More than 100 passengers who landed at Ben Gurion from the UK were placed aboard buses and driven to Jerusalem

debka.com

Chief Rodney Harrison

✔@NYPDDetectives

On this day, six years ago the NYPD lost Detectives WenJian Liu and Rafael Ramos who were assassinated while out on Patrol in Brooklyn.

Daily Mail U.K.

✔@DailyMailUK

Fury from Northerners over fears the south east is spreading new mutant strain across the UK https://trib.al/KpAzWOo 

Fury from Northerners over fears Londoners are spreading mutant strain

Twitter users slammed large crowds queueing on a packed platform at London’s St Pancras Station to board the last train to Leeds, calling them ‘selfish b******s’.

dailymail.co.uk

The Hill

✔@thehill

Trump calls Bolton “one of the dumbest people in Washington” after former aide weighs in on martial law report http://hill.cm/GTCQTDU 

DW News

✔@dwnews

JUST IN: Germany is set to impose a ban on all passenger flights from the UK, in response to the new, more transmittable, COVID-19 strain.https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-germany-to-limit-travel-with-uk-over-covid-mutation/a-55999636 …

Germany to limit travel with UK over COVID ‘mutation’

The German government is preparing to impose restrictions on travel with the UK and South Africa, where the new, more transmittable strain of the coronavirus has been driving up infections. Follow DW…

dw.com

Anders Åslund@anders_aslund

John F. Kelly “is dead wrong. [Trump’s White House staff] are not victims. Their reputations have been besmirched for the best of reasons: They participated in an administration unparalleled in its corruption, meanness, racism and authoritarianism.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/20/john-kelly-is-wrong-they-were-not-good-people/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F2dbba9f%2F5fdf7dc09d2fda0efb8eb35f%2F5e96452d9bbc0f0c1bf6bbe4%2F22%2F68%2F5fdf7dc09d2fda0efb8eb35f …

Opinion | John Kelly is wrong. These were not good people.

There is no redemption for many Trump aides.

washingtonpost.com