Andrew C. McCarthy, a former top federal prosecutor, is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, a contributing editor at National Review, a Fox News contributor, and a well-known commentator on legal, national security, and political affairs.
McCarthy is a former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York, best known for leading the prosecution against the Blind Sheik (Omar Abdel Rahman) and eleven other jihadists for waging a terrorist war against the United States—including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to bomb New York City landmarks. After the 9/11 attacks, he supervised the U.S. attorney’s command post near Ground Zero. He later served as an advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers "Willful Blindness: A Memoir of Jihad" (2008) and "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America" (2010), as well as "Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy" (2013) and "Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment" (2014). His new book, "Ball of Collusion," was released on August 13, 2019.
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