Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. 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. [cite web
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url = http://www.defenddemocracy.org/biographies/biographies_show.htm?attrib_id=9716
title = Andrew C. McCarthy, Director, FDD's Center for Law and Counterterrorism
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publisher = Foundation for Defense of Democracies] 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 [ cite news
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coauthors = and May, Clifford D.
title =Misguided morality
work = USA Today
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date =2005-12-15
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accessdate = 2007-07-13 ] [McCarthy, Andrew. "Torture: Thinking about the Unthinkable". "Commentary". 60.7 (2004): 17-24.] whilst admitting that "waterboarding is close enough to torture that reasonable minds can differ on whether it is torture". [ [http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjhkM2YyZmE5MThjZGNlN2IyMGI4MmE3MWM1OWQ5MjA=&w=MQ= Waterboarding and Torture] Andrew McCarthy, nationalreview.com]

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