Today The American Spectator published my analysis of the mainstream media’s canonization of disgraced and discredited former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who this week began hawking his new book in which he is the hero. According to Andy, under his intrepid leadership, your FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation of President Trump who, despite his many moves to thwart Vladmir Putin’s ambitions, may still be a secret Russian agent. Watching McCabe do the fawning, powder puff CBS and NBC interviews moved me to pose a few inconvenient questions along the lines of why should anyone believe anything that this guy...
Tomorrow the print edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer will feature my op-ed regarding the latest gun control legislation being considered by the House of Representatives. If you want to see the reader comments (anguished or otherwise), it can accessed online today at Philly.com. Spoiler alert: the proposed requirement for universal background checks for the transfer of firearms won’t materially reduce gun deaths or keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Anyhow, here’s the piece: BACKGROUND CHECKS WILL NOT PREVENT GUN DEATHS Last week, the House Judiciary Committee began to consider legislation that would require a universal background check for all transfers...
In the early 1970s, when I was a freshly minted Special Attorney with the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the U.S. Justice Department, my fellow newly hired colleagues and I attended a lecture at Main Justice given by John Dowd, a well-regarded veteran prosecutor. His topic was the then little known and almost never used Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Dowd explained in detail the vast sweep of the statute and described the mind-boggling powers that Congress had conferred on us. In those long gone days of limited federal jurisdiction, we had a hard time processing what...