“Appeals court rejects academic’s libel suit over claims of affair with Flynn; The ruling upheld an earlier district court decision throwing Svetlana Lokhova’s suit out in its entirety”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report on a ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. [read post]

U.S. and U.K. intelligence officials had serious concerns about Michael Flynn’s appointment as the White House national security adviser because of his history of contacts with Moscow and his encounter with a Russian-British graduate student who had trusted access to Russian spy agency records, named Svetlana Lokhova, the Guardian tells us. [read post]