No matter the criticisms directed his way by Republicans, Robert Mueller should count himself lucky: He’s not Ken Starr. The punctilious, mild-mannered independent counsel appointed by a three-judge panel in the 1990s, Starr investigated all manner of Bill Clinton scandals, most spectacularly the Monica Lewinsky...

February 11 2018

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Robert Mueller Is No Ken Starr

Rich Lowry

No matter the criticisms directed his way by Republicans, Robert Mueller should count himself lucky: He’s not Ken Starr. The punctilious, mild-mannered independent counsel appointed by a three-judge panel in the 1990s, Starr investigated all manner of Bill Clinton scandals, most spectacularly the Monica Lewinsky...

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Grassley-Graham Memo Affirms Nunes Memo — Media Yawns

Andrew C. McCarthy

In a word, the Grassley-Graham memo is shocking. Yet, the press barely notices. Rest assured: If a Republican administration had used unverifiable hearsay from a patently suspect agent of the...

‘Delegitimizing’ Mueller? Don’t Blame the Nunes Memo

Andrew C. McCarthy

The most bitter dispute over the Nunes memo involves Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. This might seem odd since the memo, published last week by Republicans on the House...

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FISA-gate Is Scarier than Watergate

Victor Davis Hanson

The Watergate scandal of 1972–74 was uncovered largely because of outraged Democratic politicians and a bulldog media. They both claimed that they had saved American democracy from the Nixon...

Jerry Nadler's Leaked Rebuttal of the Nunes Memo Is Very Weak

Andrew C. McCarthy

Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has written a six-page response to the FISA-abuse memo published Friday by the committee’s...

Completely Missing the Point on Lisa Page’s Obama Text

Andrew C. McCarthy

Ever watch one of those games in which it looks like the road team is inadvertently doing everything it can to give the game away but the home team is too inept to capitalize? Welcome to the...

The Memo Doesn’t Make Its Case

David French

It’s a fact of human nature that our experience colors our perception. In this instance, my experience dealing with classified information and my experience making and evaluating highly...

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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

Peter Cozzens

"The most lucid and reliable history of the Indian Wars in recent memory."

Victor Davis Hanson, author of Carnage and Culture

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