Hanson / McCarthy: What you need to know today

This will tell you everything you need to know about what's going on in the United States today:

The Progressive Revolution: From Democratic to Liberal to Progressive to Socialist


Behind the Obama administration’s shady plan to spy on the Trump campaign

Andrew McCarthy: "We need a full-blown investigation of how the FISA court came to grant warrants to spy on Carter Page."

I spent many months assuring people that nothing like this could ever happen — that the FBI and Justice Department would not countenance the provision to the FISA court of uncorroborated allegations of heinous misconduct. When Trump enthusiasts accused them of rigging the process, I countered that they probably had not even used the Steele dossier. If the Justice Department had used it in writing a FISA warrant application, I insisted that the FBI would independently verify any important facts presented to the court, make any disclosures that ought in fairness be made so the judge could evaluate the credibility of the sources, and compellingly demonstrate probable cause before alleging that an American was a foreign agent.

I was wrong.

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Sh*t happens

Andrew McCarthy, prosecutor for the first World Trade Center bombing, continues his highly detailed description of the corruption of Obama’s FBI and DoJ (sic). This was all being done to promote Hillary as President, at which point none of the extreme and pervasive corruption would have come to light.

Then, Trump happened.

In conclusion, while there is a dearth of evidence to date that the Trump campaign colluded in Russia’s cyber espionage attack on the 2016 election, there is abundant evidence that the Obama administration colluded with the Clinton campaign to use the Steele dossier as a vehicle for court-authorized monitoring of the Trump campaign — and to fuel a pre-election media narrative that U.S. intelligence agencies believed Trump was scheming with Russia to lift sanctions if he were elected president. Congress should continue pressing for answers, and President Trump should order the Justice Department and FBI to cooperate rather than — what’s the word? — resist.

— Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.

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Yes, this IS is like Watergate...on steroids!!

The thing to bear in mind is that the White House does not do investigations. Not criminal investigations, not intelligence investigations. Remember that.

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Islam and the Jihad in London

by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY March 25, 2017
NATIONAL REVIEW

It was a careful choice of words, Bernard Lewis being nothing if not careful. In 2004, the West audibly gasped when its preeminent scholar of Islam famously told the German newspaper Die Welt,“Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century,” if not sooner.

Listen carefully. He did not say that Muslims will be the majority population in what is still recognizably Europe. No, Professor Lewis said “Europe will be Islamic.”

We are not talking about Muslims here. We are talking about Islam. Lots of individual Muslims desire peaceful coexistence, even assimilation. But Islam’s aim is to prevail. So, yet again this week, Lewis’s foreboding has been brought to the fore by a jihadist mass-murder attack, this time in London.

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Mrs. Clinton appears to have converted the office of secretary of state into a racketeering enterprise.

by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY October 29, 2016 4:00 AM
NATIONAL REVIEW:

This would be a violation of the RICO law — the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1971 (codified in the U.S. penal code at sections 1961 et seq.).

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What Should We Make of WikiLeaks as a Source?

Andrew McCarthy - NATIONAL REVIEW:

"WikiLeaks has a history of releasing information that — whatever you may think about how it was acquired — proves authentic and often reliable. We know that because, to my knowledge, no one has proved any of their documents fraudulent despite having great incentive and opportunity to do so. People and agencies whose documents have been leaked have, in arguing over them, conceded (usually tacitly) that they are what WikiLeaks purports them to be."

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No, the Constitution Does Not Bar ‘Religious Tests’ in Immigration Law

Andrew C. McCarthy -- NATIONAL REVIEW:

The United States government’s first obligation is to shield the American people from foreign threats, not to shield foreign threats and render the American people defenseless.

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Former Assistant U.S. Attorney points out why FBI Director James Comey is wrong

by Andrew C. McCarthy, NATIONAL REVIEW:

It seems to me that this is what the FBI has done today. It has told the public that because Mrs. Clinton did not have intent to harm the United States we should not prosecute her on a felony that does not require proof of intent to harm the United States. Meanwhile, although there may have been profound harm to national security caused by her grossly negligent mishandling of classified information, we’ve decided she shouldn’t be prosecuted for grossly negligent mishandling of classified information. I think highly of Jim Comey personally and professionally, but this makes no sense to me.

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Ex-prosecutor: Obama's Kenyan activities may be 'criminal'

McCarthy says Obama's foreign dealings as senator possibly illegal

UPDATE: Obama Accused of Illegally Funding Pro-Abortion Referendum in Kenya

Great news: Tom Lauria and Andrew McCarthy fight back!

Forward and/or post these everywhere:

Obama - Resistance Is Starting -- Part 1 -- Tom Lauria and The Chrysler Takeover - www.nevilleawards.com/obama_resist_1.shtml

Obama - Resistance Is Starting -- Part 2 -- Andrew McCarthy Refuses to Shill for Obama Torture Debate - www.nevilleawards.com/obama_resist_2.shtml

McCarthy: A beautiful mind just says "no"

This is a beautiful thing...I posted several versions of this story and the letter, but please read Mr. McCarthy's own explanation at the end! It's about time.

After being invited by the [Obama] administration to be a prop in the interrogation debate, the National Review Institute's former federal prosecutor provides a clear, instructional dissent: Read this letter!

National Review’s Andrew McCarthy helped prosecute the terrorists who plotted and conducted the first bombing attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, putting several radical extremists behind bars. Since then, he has become a must-read on counterterrorist policy and a critic of the impulse to fight jihadis through the American court system. The Obama administration knows this and extended an invitation to McCarthy to a roundtable on counterterrorist policy, which McCarthy has politely — and publicly — declined: Read more

By email (to the Counterterrorism Division) and by regular mail:

The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Attorney General of the United States
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001

Dear Attorney General Holder: Read more

I did something today that I’ve never done before. The Department of Justice, which I proudly served for a quarter century as an assistant U.S. attorney and a deputy U.S. marshal, asked me for help, and I declined. Actually, what I declined to do was attend a meeting. My hope is that the dissent I am registering — to the administration’s disastrous policies of releasing trained terrorists and threatening prosecution against government lawyers — will help the department and the Obama administration, even if they don’t want to hear it. Saying No to Justice: Why I declined to meet with the President’s Detention Policy Task Force by Andrew C. McCarthy