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“There was never a shred of evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin. Not to commit espionage. Not to violate any law. Zip, zero, nada.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The investigation was built on a fraud.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The Obama administration exploited every tool in its arsenal (surveillance, informants, foreign-intelligence agencies, moribund and constitutionally untenable criminal statutes) to try to make a criminal case on Trump—the candidate Obama deeply opposed—despite the absence of incriminating evidence.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“And obviously: If they had a sound reason, grounded in real evidence, for suspecting a presidential candidate was in a corrupt conspiracy with a foreign power, they should not only be able to tell us what it is; they should be anxious to tell us what it is.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“Ramadan, the faithful are known to block streets, driveways, and fire-hydrants with their parked cars, and trample across neighborhood yards while approaching the mosque on foot. If, as apologists maintain, jihad really is the internal struggle to become a better person, one wonders why manners seem to degrade as Muslim numbers increase. But wait—if jihad is actually about struggling to implement sharia as the necessary precondition to Islamicizing a society, it all makes perfect sense. The overflow parking situation became intolerable in Falls Church, and to ease it somewhat, neighboring churches offered the use of their lots in an overture of Christian charity. Predictably, Abdul-Malik accepted the ecumenical gesture as a concession. “If Islam really catches on in the area,” he smirked to Sperry, “maybe the neighborhood churches will come over lock, stock, and barrel, and we can all share our parking lots.”8 Islamists are happy to expand Islam’s American enclaves one”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America

“Rod Rosenstein spent the days that followed grappling with the matter of most urgency to the United States of America: how to restore the reputation of Rod Rosenstein.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The investigative theory on which the FBI formally opened the foreign-counterintelligence probe code-named “Crossfire Hurricane” on July 31, 2016, held that (a) the Trump campaign knew about, and was potentially complicit in, Russia’s possession of hacked emails that would compromise Hillary Clinton; and (b) in order to help Donald Trump win the presidency, the Kremlin planned to disseminate these emails anonymously (through a third party) at a time maximally damaging to Clinton’s campaign.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“That is to say, a month before WikiLeaks on July 22 began leaking thousands of hacked DNC emails to the press on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, the Clinton campaign–sponsored dossier reports had already framed the collusion narrative into which all subsequent developments would be fit.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The administration monitored journalists. Attorney General Eric Holder approved the seizure of personal and business phone records of Associated Press reporters en masse (i.e., not a particularized search targeting a specific journalist suspected of wrongdoing).”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“FISA also instructs that to justify surveilling an American citizen, there must be probable cause that the person is knowingly engaged in clandestine activity on behalf of a foreign power.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The “Fast and Furious” scandal involved a blatant Obama administration politicization of law enforcement: to wit, a “gun-walking” investigation in which thousands of firearms were allowed to be transferred illegally to Mexico. This cockamamie scheme was designed to serve a political narrative about the evils of American gun commerce, concocted to promote the progressive agenda of restricting Second Amendment rights.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The United States government’s claim that Russia is responsible for the hacking, while credible and probable, cannot be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. In the absence of sufficient evidence to establish Russia’s guilt in court, there was no way Special Counsel Robert Mueller could ever have proved Donald Trump, his campaign, or anyone else conspired with Russia.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“Meanwhile, the NSD and FBI obtained a FISA surveillance warrant against Carter Page on October 21, after Carlin’s departure and before the FISC was alerted to the Section 702 irregularities.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“With great indignation, President Obama, the beneficiary of the malfeasance, publicly railed that the IRS conduct was “outrageous,” and that wrongdoers would “have to be held fully accountable” since there was “no place for it.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“For instance, Obama’s IRS harassed and investigated conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, a politicized initiative that stymied the groups’ ability to contest Obama’s reelection in 2012.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“Starting from that premise, the foreign ministries of the United States and Australia, through mendacity or incompetence, erected a fraudulent story that warped the Trump campaign’s purported foreknowledge of Russia’s perfidy into a potential espionage conspiracy.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The statute elaborates that such activity involves intentional subterfuge, the commission of crimes at the direction of a foreign-intelligence service, using false identities on behalf of a foreign power, or such heinous activities as sabotage and terrorism.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“family in Minneapolis, blew himself up at a UN checkpoint in 2008, killing twenty-nine people. In September 2009, another Somali immi-grant left his Seattle community to return home and carry out a truck bombing in Mogadishu, killing twenty-one people.18 The case of Ahmed is especially grating. Thanks to the State Department’s refugee resettlement mania, he’d become a naturalized American citizen. So, after his mass-murder attack against U.S.-supported allies in northern Somalia, the FBI, at the expense of the American taxpayer, had his remains (which had become evidence in the Bureau’s terrorism-support investigation) transported back to America so he could be given a”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America

“Obama expelled thirty-five people described as Russian “intelligence operatives.” He slapped sanctions on two Russian intelligence agencies—the military and civilian spy services, respectively, the GRU and FSB, as well as four “cyber officials” and three companies said to support Russian cyber operations. Further, he shuttered Russian-owned buildings on Long Island and Maryland’s eastern shoreline, which were suddenly branded as intelligence operations. Mind you, these facilities and operatives had been up and running throughout Obama’s presidency. No meaningful action was taken against them throughout the 2016 campaign, while Obama was being extensively briefed about Russia’s hacking and propaganda operations. Nor when Russia annexed Crimea, consolidated its de facto seizure of eastern Ukraine, propped up Assad, armed Iran, buzzed U.S. naval vessels, and saber-rattled in the Baltics. Only now, to prop up a postelection emphasis on the Trump–Russia narrative.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“As the Civil Rights Division well knew, even as it collaborated with such provocateurs as Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and Black Lives Matter, its threats to bring civil-rights prosecutions in these cases were frivolous.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“Russia-gate is a complicated, sprawling story: multiagency and transcontinental; spanning law-enforcement and intelligence operations; featuring top-secret redactions, classified leaks, intricate narrative threads, and a list of dramatis personae that would dizzy a Russian novelist. It is easy to lose track of basic facts. Here’s the most basic one: There was never a shred of evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin. Not to commit espionage. Not to violate any law. Zip, zero, nada.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“On October 4, the FISC held a standard follow-up hearing to discuss the government’s September 26 submission. NSD Chief Carlin was reportedly present at the proceeding, which was uneventful because the government, again, failed to disclose the compliance issues the NSA’s internal audits had begun uncovering ten months earlier. Carlin left the government eleven days later, replaced by his deputy, Mary McCord”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“Chicanery was the force behind the formal opening of the FBI’s Trump–Russia investigation. There was a false premise, namely that the Trump campaign must have known that Russia possessed emails somehow related to Hillary Clinton before WikiLeaks caused the dissemination of hacked Democratic National Committee emails to the media, beginning on July 22, 2016.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The government conceded that Obama-administration national-security officials had been aware of the broad scope of the problem since at least January 2016 when the NSA’s IG report was issued—a report that itself had been triggered in early 2015 by the NSA’s awareness of widespread compliance issues.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The Justice Department was also heavy-handed in its indictment of Dinesh D’Souza, the writer, filmmaker, and strident Obama”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“In the end, Turk sent Papadopoulos emails saying that meeting him had been the “highlight of my trip” and gushing, “I am excited about what the future holds for us :)”—the smiley-face symbol accentuating the point.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The PATRIOT Act, for example, stresses that First Amendment protected activity—mere speech, or mere association—is never sufficient by itself to trigger surveillance.20”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“Holder’s Justice Department also corrupted the judicial process in the service of advancing political causes and punishing political enemies and scapegoats.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“There was only Steele’s say-so that this conspiracy existed.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

“The blanks were filled in by unverified tales from the unidentified sources of Christopher Steele, a British spy who perfectly reflected the transnational-progressive pieties of his Fusion GPS collaborators, his Obama-administration admirers, and his global network of current and former spooks.”
― Andrew C. McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency