Andrew C. McCarthy

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For the American actor (born 1962), see Andrew McCarthy.

Andrew C. McCarthy is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, appointed by Democratic president Bill Clinton in 1993. He was most notable for leading the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. The defendants were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and planning a series of attacks against New York City landmarks.[1] He also contributed to the prosecutions of terrorists who bombed US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, resigning from the Justice Department in 2003.

McCarthy is currently a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, serving as the director of the FDD's Center for Law and Counterterrorism. He has served as an attorney for Rudy Giuliani, and is also a conservative opinion columnist who writes for National Review and Commentary. He has defended the practice of waterboarding as not necessarily being torture in some situations to prosecute the war on terror[2][3] whilst admitting that "waterboarding is close enough to torture that reasonable minds can differ on whether it is torture".[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Andrew C. McCarthy, Director, FDD's Center for Law and Counterterrorism. Biographies. Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  2. ^ McCarthy, Andrew C.; and May, Clifford D.. "Misguided morality", USA Today, 15 December 2005, pp. A.22. Retrieved on 2007-07-13. 
  3. ^ McCarthy, Andrew. "Torture: Thinking about the Unthinkable". Commentary. 60.7 (2004): 17-24.
  4. ^ Waterboarding and Torture Andrew McCarthy, nationalreview.com
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