1.Secretary Mike Pompeo defends deal brokered with Turkey to temporarily halt military operations in Syria (ABC)
2.US is out of the picture in Syria-Turkey crisis. Putin now owns this mess (CNN)
3.Pentagon chief says US troops leaving Syria for western Iraq (AP)
4.Boris Johnson faces frenzied week as Brexit deadline nears (AP)
5.European leaders ponder how to deal with British request for Brexit delay (Politico)
6.US defense chief in Afghanistan for firsthand look at war (AP)
7.The court that could decide the future of Trump's presidency (CNN)
8.Canada’s Conservatives offer bland option to Trudeau’s flash (ABC)
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Pelosi in Jordan for 'vital discussions' amid Syria crisis NBC by Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a group of American lawmakers on a surprise visit to Jordan to discuss "the deepening crisis" in Syria amid a shaky U.S.-brokered cease-fire.
Pelosi, along with the nine-member Congressional delegation, met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the capital of Amman late on Saturday, for talks focusing on security and "regional stability," according to a statement from her office.
The country is as divided as it's been in recent history. Impeachment will likely make it worse CNN by By Grace Sparks
The US has grown more divided along partisan lines over the last two decades and past polling suggests the current impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is likely to only exacerbate those growing divisions.
Mulvaney continues to back away from quid pro quo, as top diplomat defends Giuliani’s role in Ukraine The Washington Post by Karoun Demirjian
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney continued to back away Sunday from his public acknowledgment of a quid pro quo in which the Trump administration leveraged military aid to Ukraine for an investigation that could politically benefit President Trump, while the top U.S. diplomat defended Trump’s private lawyer’s role in Ukrainian affairs as “completely appropriate.”
Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle The Washington Post by Matthew Rosenberg and Kevin Roose
On any given day, the Trump campaign is plastering ads all over Facebook, YouTube and the millions of sites served by Google, hitting the kind of incendiary themes — immigrant invaders, the corrupt media — that play best on platforms where algorithms favor outrage and political campaigns are free to disregard facts.
Caught up in Trump impeachment, US diplomats fight back AP by By MATTHEW LEE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years of simmering frustration inside the State Department is boiling over on Capitol Hill as a parade of current and former diplomats testify to their concerns about the Trump administration’s unorthodox policy toward Ukraine.
Investigation into Trump-Russia probe continues to grow Avois by Orion Rummler
A federal investigation closely supervised by Attorney General William Barr — which aims to inspect origins of the Trump-Russia probe — has interviewed "about two dozen and current F.B.I. officials," the New York Times reports.
Pompeo says he "never saw" Ukraine aid as tied to political investigations Avois by Zachary Basu
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that he "never saw" the suspension of military aid to Ukraine as being tied to pressure to open investigations into Democrats, telling George Stephanopoulos that he'll leave it to acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to "explain what it is he said and what he intended."
Arguably, the key concept of plausible deniability is plausibility. It is relatively easy for a government official to issue a blanket denial of an action, and it is possible to destroy or cover up evidence after the fact, and this might be sufficient to avoid a criminal prosecution, for instance. However, the public might well disbelieve the denial, particularly if there is strong circumstantial evidence, or if the action is believed to be so unlikely that the only logical explanation is that the denial is false. （wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability）
Citations Plausible deniability is a politician’s best friend. It’s something politicians seek to maintain in all circumstances by giving vanilla statements that offer future wiggle room.
For President Trump, though, plausible deniability is a way of life. The ability to pretend he didn’t actually say what he seems to have just said is something Trump has weaponized and exploited. It’s something he wields against his opponents in an effort to constantly muddy the waters and rally his supporters against a common enemy.
-- The Washington Post by Aaron Blake July 4, 2017
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