Image: Pamela Au / Shutterstock.comThe Propriety of the Sessions Recusal and the Special Counsel’s Jurisdiction
William P. Barr appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation as Attorney General, January 17, 2019 (Christy Bowe/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News).
Andrew McCarthy has been arguing that the Sessions recusal and the appointment of the Special Counsel were not justified. Or to put it more precisely, under proper procedures, this recusal and appointment would have been much narrower. While one justification of the appointment and recusal is that there was an investigation into the Russian connections with the Trump campaign, McCarthy argues that the investigation was merely a counterintelligence investigation and that such investigations involve lawyers in a very limited way. The regulation governing recusals and appointment of special counsels involve criminal investigations, not counterintelligence investigations. As a result, McCarthy argues that Attorney…
Taking the Measure of the West
Muhammad was a great man, at least as history traditionally defines greatness. Sure, there are revisionist academics who suggest that he was, more or less, a created figure who arose out of the politics and culture of northern Arabia, but we can, and perforce must as a practical matter, accept the received picture of him as affirmed by Islamic history. As such, he reformed, rechanneled, and revolutionized the ancient and primitive culture of Arabia to set it on course to become one of the world’s great civilizations.
