American Federalist Journal
Monday - October 21, 2019



Featured articles by Andrew C. McCarthy



The Trivialization of Impeachment
2019-10-19

What Is Impeachment For?
2019-10-12

Turkey and the Kurds: It's More Complicated Than You Think
2019-10-10

Quid Pro Quo and Extortion: Welcome to Foreign Relations
2019-10-07

If the House Won't Vote, Impeachment Inquiry Is Just a Democratic Stunt
2019-10-05



Do Republicans See the Strategy to Discredit the Barr Investigation?
2019-10-02

How about a Bipartisan Treaty against the Criminalization of Elections?
2019-09-28

Double Standards on Ukraine
2019-09-26

No, Trump Is Not Facing the Death Penalty over Ukraine
2019-09-24

Breaking Down the Whistleblower Frenzy
2019-09-21



Can the White House Assert Executive Privilege over Trump's Conversations with Corey Lewandowski?
2019-09-17

Why It's Unlikely the McCabe Grand Jury Voted against Indictment
2019-09-14

Breaking Down the Report of an Imminent McCabe Indictment
2019-09-12

Taliban Terrorists Have No Place at Camp David
2019-09-10

The Turn Toward a Pre-9/11 Mindset
2019-09-07



Storming Back to the Impeachment Charade
2019-09-04

Trump Was Always the Target of the Russia Investigation
2019-08-30

What Is Justice for McCabe?
2019-08-29

May the President Ban Commerce with China . . . by Tweet?
2019-08-26

McCabe and Papadopoulos: Two-Tiered Justice
2019-08-24



The Bogus Story That Launched a 'Collusion' Probe
2019-08-17

The Election Is Legitimate Only If the Democrats Win
2019-08-16

A Brief History of Election Meddling
2019-08-15

Hillary Ruins the Plan
2019-08-14

Epstein's Apparent Suicide Renews Questions about His Prosecution
2019-08-10



Losing the War in Forgotten Afghanistan
2019-08-10

How to Combat White-Supremacist Gun Violence While Protecting the Second Amendment
2019-08-05

The DOJ Will Not Prosecute James Comey over Trump Memos
2019-08-03

How Mueller's Lawyers Spun the OLC Guidance on Indicting a Sitting President
2019-07-28

The Mueller Report's Fundamental Dodge
2019-07-27



Is There an Obstruction Case against President Trump?
2018-02-17

What Did Comey Tell President Trump about the Steele Dossier?
2018-02-15

The Curious Michael Flynn Guilty Plea
2018-02-14

The Dumb Controversy over the Schiff Memo
2018-02-13

Grassley-Graham Memo Affirms Nunes Memo - Media Yawns
2018-02-10



Completely Missing the Point on Lisa Page's Obama Text
2018-02-09

'Delegitimizing' Mueller? Don't Blame the Nunes Memo
2018-02-08

Jerry Nadler's Leaked Rebuttal of the Nunes Memo Is Very Weak
2018-02-05

House Memo Details Use of Steele Dossier to Spy on Trump Campaign Adviser
2018-02-03

The Gang That Couldn't Lie Straight
2018-02-02



Rod Rosenstein Is Shirking His Duty to Supervise Robert Mueller
2018-01-30

Donald Trump Should Refuse a Mueller Interview
2018-01-28

The Clamor over the Nunes 'FISA Abuse' Memo
2018-01-26

Clinton-Obama Emails: The Key to Understanding Why Hillary Wasn't Indicted
2018-01-24

Collusion 3.0: Russia and the NRA
2018-01-20



Former CIA Agent Arrested for Mishandling Classified Information
2018-01-18

Anatomy of a Farce
2018-01-14

Anatomy of a Farce
2018-01-13

Politicizing Steele's Raw, Unverified 'Intelligence'
2018-01-10

The Senators' Criminal Referral of Dossier Author Steele
2018-01-09



Restoring the Rule of Law to the Protection of Classified Information
2018-01-06

Manafort's Frivolous Civil Lawsuit against Mueller and the Justice Department
2018-01-05

Beating a Hasty Retreat from the Steele Dossier
2018-01-04

As the Dossier Scandal Looms, the New York Times Struggles to Save Its Collusion Tale
2018-01-02

Time to Give Clinton's Server Technician the Mueller Treatment
2017-12-30



Was the Steele Dossier the FBI's 'Insurance Policy'?
2017-12-24

Was the Steele Dossier the FBI's 'Insurance Policy'?
2017-12-23

Mueller's Scorched-Earth Tactics . . . Again
2017-12-19

Was the Steele Dossier Used to Obtain a FISA Warrant Against Trump's Campaign?
2017-12-16

Port Authority Jihadist Charged with Federal Terrorism Crimes
2017-12-13



Port Authority Jihadist Attack: Why the Rush to Civilian Court?
2017-12-12

Forget Collusion. Can Mueller Prove Russia Committed Cyberespionage?
2017-12-11

Did the DOJ Misuse the Steele Dossier - to Spy on the Trump Campaign?
2017-12-09

With Jerusalem Move, Trump Strikes at the 'Psychological Barrier'
2017-12-08

On Strzok, Let's Wait for the Evidence
2017-12-07



What the President Knew and When He Knew It
2017-12-05

It Is Now an Obstruction Investigation
2017-12-04

Mueller Investigation: Politics, Not Law Enforcement or Counterintelligence
2017-12-03

Mueller Investigation: Politics, Not Law Enforcement or Counterintelligence
2017-12-02

Khatallah's Acquittals on Benghazi Murders Show, Again, Need for New System
2017-11-30



Trump's in the Right in CFPB Tiff
2017-11-28

West Side Highway Jihadist Indicted for Murder in Aid of Racketeering
2017-11-25

Void the Non-Disclosure Agreements That Conceal Congressional Misconduct
2017-11-22

For Slimy Senators, Our Conviction Should Be Expulsion
2017-11-19

We Don't Need a Special Counsel to Investigate the Clinton Foundation
2017-11-15



A Second Fusion GPS Dossier Implicated Clinton Foundation Donors
2017-11-12

The Trump Collusion Case Is Not Getting the Clinton Emails Treatment
2017-11-11

Your Sentencing Advice Isn't Helpful, Mr. President
2017-11-05

Your Sentencing Advice Isn't Helpful, Mr. President
2017-11-04

After the West Side Highway Jihad: What Does 'Extreme Vetting' Mean?
2017-11-02



More Thoughts on the Manafort Indictment
2017-11-01

The Papadopoulos Case
2017-10-31

A Bipartisan Dossier of Collusion
2017-10-28

The Obama Administration's Uranium One Scandal
2017-10-21

Kaepernick's Collusion Claim Is a Likely Loser
2017-10-18



Trump Faithfully Executes Obamacare; Media, Democrats Go Nuts
2017-10-14

Trump Finally Gets His 'Travel Ban' Victory
2017-10-12

Collusion and the Trump Dossier
2017-10-07

Mr. President, Decertify the Iran Deal and Then Walk Away
2017-10-05

Is the Las Vegas Mass-Murderer a Terrorist?
2017-10-03



Blame the NFL, Not Trump
2017-09-30

As Predicted, Supreme Court Kicks Can on Trump's So-called Travel Ban
2017-09-27

Mueller Scorches the Earth
2017-09-23

James Clapper's Non-Denial Denials, Revisited
2017-09-22

Paul Manafort Is in Legal Jeopardy
2017-09-20



Terror in London . . . Again
2017-09-17

On Criminal Justice, Sessions Is Returning DOJ to the Rule of Law
2017-09-16

Trump White House Should Stop Talking about Comey
2017-09-14

DACA: Trump Does the Full Obama on Prosecutorial Discretion
2017-09-09

Trump's 'Never Mind' DACA Tweet
2017-09-07



To End DACA, Follow the Constitution
2017-09-05

Arpaio Pardon Shows the Futility of Mueller's Obstruction Investigation
2017-09-02

'Designating' Antifa a Terrorist Organization Is a Bad Idea
2017-09-01

Trump's Unmerited, Unnecessary, Impulsive Pardon of Sheriff Arpaio
2017-08-30

In Afghanistan, End the Trump-Obama Taliban Fantasy
2017-08-26



The Very Strange Indictment of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's IT Scammers
2017-08-22

On Charlottesville, Trump, and Anti-Americanism
2017-08-19

Let Virginia Prosecute the Charlottesville Terrorism
2017-08-15

McMaster and the Challenge of Sharia Supremacism
2017-08-12

Mueller Is Squeezing Manafort
2017-08-11



Mueller's Raid on Manafort's Home
2017-08-10

Rosenstein Fails to Defend His Failure to Limit Mueller's Investigation
2017-08-08

Is Mueller's Grand Jury Impeachment Step One?
2017-08-06

Why Doesn't Trump Just Unmask the Unmasking?
2017-08-03

Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani IT Scammers
2017-07-29



Sessions, Trump, and the 'Counterintelligence' Confusion
2017-07-27

Trump Has Himself, Not Sessions, to Blame for the Limitless Mueller Investigation
2017-07-22

The Curious Case of Natalia Veselnitskaya
2017-07-20

The Heritage of Natural Law: Mark Levin on Rediscovering Americanism
2017-07-15

Trump, Russia, and the Misconduct of Public Men
2017-07-13



Report: Comey Memos Are Government Documents . . . and Some Are Classified
2017-07-11

War Powers and the Constitution in Our Body Politic
2017-07-08

Still No Collusion Evidence
2017-07-02

Still No Collusion Evidence
2017-07-01

The Supreme Court Order Is Not Much of a Victory for Trump
2017-06-27



The Antithesis of Obstruction
2017-06-24

Team Trump Cannot Fear the I-Word
2017-06-19

The Justice Department Is Killing Trump
2017-06-17

Can You Obstruct a Fraud?
2017-06-16

Mend, Don't End, Mueller's Investigation
2017-06-15



Attorney General Sessions's Recusal Was Unnecessary
2017-06-14

Thinking about the Comey Memos
2017-06-12

Why Trump Fired Comey
2017-06-10

Again, Pressure Is Not Obstruction
2017-06-08

No, the Problem in London Is Not 'Islamist Extremism'
2017-06-06



Will Paris Revive the Constitution's 'America First' Approach to Treaties?
2017-06-03

'Pressure' Is Not Obstruction
2017-06-02

What the House Subpoenas of Rice, Brennan, and Power in the 'Unmasking' Probe Mean
2017-06-01

The Alleged Kushner-Kislyak Meeting: Amateur Hour May Be Worse Than 'Collusion'
2017-05-29

How Sharia Supremacism and Judicial Imperialism Threaten National Security
2017-05-27



Fighting the Politicized, Evidence-Free 'Collusion with Russia' Narrative
2017-05-25

Trump's 'Principled Realism' Is Not Very Realistic about Islam
2017-05-23

The President's Power to End a Criminal Investigation
2017-05-20

The Latest 'Just Like Watergate' Idiocy
2017-05-16

On the Limits of Loyalty
2017-05-13



The Bipartisan Case against James Comey
2017-05-10

No, the FBI Was Not a Trump Partisan
2017-05-06

Faux Outrage and Melodrama over Comey's Pre-Election Letter
2017-05-04

Revealed: Eleventh-hour Subpoenas in the Clinton E-mails Investigation
2017-04-29

A Ruling about Nothing
2017-04-27



A Case for Congress and the Trump Justice Department, Not the Courts
2017-04-23

Justice and Accountability in Courtroom and Laboratory
2017-04-22

If the Government Cannot Be Trusted, Can It Protect the Nation?
2017-04-16

If the Government Cannot Be Trusted, Can It Protect the Nation?
2017-04-15

Is Rice's 'Crime' the New 'Wire Tapping'?
2017-04-09



Is Rice's 'Crime' the New 'Wire Tapping'?
2017-04-08

On Susan Rice, the Issue Is Abuse of Power, Not Criminality
2017-04-06

In the Nunes Affair, Don't Lose Sight of the Unanswered Questions
2017-03-29

FISAgate: The Question Is Not Whether Trump Associates Were Monitored
2017-03-27

Islam and the Jihad in London
2017-03-25



The Travel Ban Is about Vetting - Which Means It's about Islam
2017-03-18

Where Does FISAgate End Up? Probably Nowhere.
2017-03-13

Sessions's Firing of 46 Obama-Appointed U.S. Attorneys Isn't Scandalous
2017-03-11

Parsing Clapper
2017-03-08

While You Weren't Looking, the Democrat-Media Election-Hacking Narrative Just Collapsed
2017-03-07



The Perjury Allegation against Jeff Sessions Is Meritless
2017-03-03

The Swamp Takes Aim at Seb Gorka
2017-03-01

Prison Is for the Guilty
2017-02-25

Trump's New Guidance Calls for Vigorous Immigration Enforcement
2017-02-22

Omar Abdel Rahman, the 'Blind Sheikh,' Is Dead
2017-02-19



Why Was the FBI Investigating General Flynn?
2017-02-18

Make the Flynn Tape Public
2017-02-16

American Security and Islamic Reform
2017-02-11

Populist Presidents and 'Demoralized' Judges
2017-02-10

Will the Ninth Circuit Punt - for Now - on Trump's Travel Ban?
2017-02-09



Prosecute the Rioters
2017-02-04

Distorting Senator Sessions's Questioning of Sally Yates
2017-02-01

Is It a 'Muslim Ban'?
2017-01-31

Trump's Order on Entry into the U.S.: Implementation Problems
2017-01-30

Trump's Exclusion of Aliens from Specific Countries Is Legal
2017-01-29



Build That Wall . . . and Pay for It
2017-01-28

The Draft Executive Order on Detention and Interrogation: Much Ado About Nothing
2017-01-27

Can the Feds Save Chicago?
2017-01-26

Security Is Job No. 1
2017-01-21

Gee, I'm Starting to Think the Obama DOJ Just Might Be Politicized
2017-01-16



Why Republicans Lose the Narrative Battle: The Inspector-General Gambit
2017-01-15

Gee, I'm Starting to Think the Obama DOJ Just Might Be Politicized
2017-01-14

Hillary's E-mails and the Justice Department
2017-01-13

FISA and the Trump Team
2017-01-12

Missing from the Intelligence Report: The Word 'Podesta'
2017-01-09



Don't Defund the U.N., Just Say 'Go!'
2017-01-07

Intramural GOP Strife Over Russia? Not So Fast . . .
2017-01-04

Does Trump Grasp the Reality of 'Radical Islam'?
2016-12-31

Kerry to Israel: A State Cannot Be Both Jewish and Democratic
2016-12-29

Obama's Betrayal of Israel Is a Black Day for American Diplomacy
2016-12-26



Obama's Betrayal of Israel Is a Black Day for American Diplomacy
2016-12-24

German Lesson: Islamist Enclaves Breed Jihadism
2016-12-22

How about a Little Art of the Deal for Iran?
2016-12-17

Of Course Russia Meddles in Our Elections - But the 'Hacking' Claim Is a Farce
2016-12-15

General Mattis Needs a Waiver from Congress to Serve as Secretary of Defense
2016-12-05



Trump's Narrow Win Is Not a Landslide, It's an Opportunity
2016-12-03

No, Conservatism Should Not Embrace Populism
2016-11-26

Senator Jeff Sessions Will Be the Restorative Attorney General We Need
2016-11-23

Distorting the Iran-Deal Bill
2016-11-19

A Pardon for Hillary?
2016-11-12



Is the Abedin/Weiner Laptop the Last of It?
2016-11-03

The Clinton E-mails Are Critical to the Clinton Foundation Investigation
2016-11-02

Hillary: No Commenting on Criminal Investigations ... Unless It Helps Me
2016-10-31

Clinton's State Department: A RICO Enterprise
2016-10-29

Podesta Leaks: The Obama-Clinton E-mails
2016-10-16



Trump Is Right to Point Out That Clinton Should Be Prosecuted
2016-10-15

Why Hillary Clinton's E-Mail Scandal 'Lawyers' Are So Problematic
2016-10-09

Hillary Clinton's Scandals Begin to Undermine Libya Prosecutions
2016-10-07

The FBI's Defense of How the Clinton Interview Was Conducted Is Full of Holes
2016-10-01

Our Dangerous Drift from Reason
2016-09-24



Obama Is Right to Veto Bill Enabling Suits against the Saudis
2016-09-14

Yes, the Fix Was In
2016-09-13

Fifteen Years After 9/11, Blindness to the Islamist Threat Is Official Policy
2016-09-11

Would Hillary's 'Not Marked CONFIDENTIAL' Story Work for You?
2016-09-10

Send Lawyers, BleachBit, and Money
2016-09-08



Yes, Congress Has the Power to Impeach Hillary Clinton
2016-09-06

Obama's Iran Deal Is a Fraud on the American People
2016-09-03

Why Is Obama Stonewalling on Details of the $1.7 Billion in Iransom Payoffs?
2016-08-27

Meet Aleppo's 'Moderate,' 'Secular' 'Rebels': Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood
2016-08-19

Obama's Iraq Policy Did Not Create ISIS
2016-08-13



Obama's Cash Payment to Iran Was More Than a Ransom - It Broke Criminal Law
2016-08-06

Hillary Clinton's Benghazi Debacle: Arming Jihadists in Libya . . . and Syria
2016-08-03

No, the Constitution Does Not Bar 'Religious Tests' in Immigration Law
2016-07-30

It's Not My Party
2016-07-23

Terror in France and the Annals of Willful Blindness
2016-07-16



The Fatal Flaws in Comey's Theory of Why Clinton Shouldn't Be Prosecuted
2016-07-09