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							<title><![CDATA[The FBI Unwittingly Investigates Itself!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/10/the_fbi_unwittingly_investigates_itself_149609.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In April of this year, the FBI began an investigation to determine who was using illegal software to spy from within the United States on persons in Mexico.
The software was illegal because its Israeli manufacturer, a company called NSO, had previously crafted other software for the FBI,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dangerous Urge to Do Something About Guns]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/14/dangerous-urge-do-something/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When tragedy strikes, as it did in two mass killings earlier this month, there is always the urge to pressure the government to do something.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller's Jackbooted Thugs an American Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-andrew-napolitano-an-american-nightmare</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The current, unreal world -- where politics deeply infuse law enforcement -- prosecutors use brute force to send a message of terror to innocent defendants. Like all defendants at the time of arrest, Roger Stone is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Knows You Don't Negotiate With Bad Guys in Public]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/19/judge-andrew-napolitano-trump-knows-more-about-dealing-with-bad-guys-than-congress-hysterical-media-combined.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For 18 months, Trump has sought to develop a personal relationship with Putin unlike any relationship that any modern American president has had with him or his predecessors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FISA Abuse May Show Deep State at Most Frightening]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/01/judge-andrew-napolitano-if-gop-memo-is-as-advertised-ll-see-deep-state-at-its-most-frightening.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have argued for a few weeks now that House Intelligence Committee members have committed misconduct in office by concealing evidence of spying abuses by the National Security Agency and the FBI.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sessions Shouldn't Pass the Buck on Clinton, Comey]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/11/16/judge-andrew-napolitano-incredible-new-chapter-in-hillary-clinton-chronicles.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice will soon commence an investigation to determine whether there should be an investigation (you read that nonsense correctly) of a scandal involving the Clinton Foundation and a company called Uranium One. It appears that FBI decisions made during the time that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What if Government Steals Liberty and Fails to Deliver Safety?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/11/09/what_if_government_steals_liberty_and_fails_to_deliver_safety_135483.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What if the government doesn't really deliver for us? What if its failures to protect our lives, liberties and property are glaring? What if nothing changes after these failures?
What if the National Security Agency -- the federal government's domestic spying apparatus -- has convinced...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tip of a Prosecutorial Iceberg?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/11/02/the_tip_of_a_prosecutorial_iceberg_135420.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the government revealed that a grand jury sitting in Washington, D.C., indicted a former Trump presidential campaign chairman and his former deputy and business partner for numerous felonies.
Both were accused of working as foreign agents and failing to report that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Feds Prosecute Foreigners If Their Actions Are Legal Where They Are?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/26/can_the_feds_prosecute_foreigners_if_their_actions_are_legal_where_they_are_135357.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am in Switzerland this week interacting with and lecturing to students and faculty at the University of Zurich. The subject of our work is the U.S. Constitution and its protections of personal liberty.
In most countries, government has begrudgingly granted snippets of personal liberty...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/19/trump_and_obamacare_135292.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the secretaries of the treasury and health and human services to cease making payments to health care insurance companies in behalf of the more than 6 million Americans who qualify for these payments under the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Taking a Knee Protected Speech?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/12/is_taking_a_knee_protected_speech_135235.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The constitutionally guaranteed 'freedom to be intellectually ... diverse or even contrary,' and the 'right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order,' encompass the freedom to express publicly one's opinions about our flag, including those opinions which are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Government Keep Us Safe?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/05/can_the_government_keep_us_safe_135171.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. The United States has been rattled to the core by an unspeakable act of evil perpetrated by a hater of humanity. A quiet, wealthy loner rented a hotel suite in Las Vegas, armed it with shooting platforms and automatic weapons, knocked out two of the windows, and shot at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Weird Odyssey of Trump's Travel Bans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/28/the_weird_odyssey_of_trumps_travel_bans_135111.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The weird odyssey of President Donald Trump's travel bans continues. The original ban, signed as an executive order Jan. 27, barred absolutely all immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The countries had actually been chosen by the State Department of former...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Tightening Legal Noose]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/21/trumps_tightening_legal_noose_135051.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Donald Trump I know is a smart guy who often thinks a few steps ahead of those whose will he is trying to bend. But I lately wonder whether he grasps the gravity of the legal peril that is beginning to show up around him. In the past week, we learned of an unfiltered public...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Does God Permit Natural Disasters?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/14/why_does_god_permit_natural_disasters_134989.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like many Americans during the past three weeks, I've been bombarded by news about the destructive power of Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida. The stories are of misery, death and destruction.
The misery, death and destruction are acutely difficult to accept because...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Immigrant Children and the Rule of Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/07/immigrant_children_and_the_rule_of_law_134918.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that in six months, the Department of Justice will begin the long process for deportation proceedings against 800,000 young people who came to America as babies and young children in the care of their parents and others because...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dangers Are Coming to the Rule of Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/31/dangers_are_coming_to_the_rule_of_law_134877.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid the bad news this summer of racial tensions in Charlottesville and biblical-like floods in Houston and preening saber rattling between Pyongyang and Washington, a dangerous below-the-radar trend has been developing about which all who believe that the Constitution means what it says...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If You Can't Change Your Mind, Change the Subject]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/24/if_you_cant_change_your_mind_change_the_subject_134816.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the heels of his worst week in office, during which his crude comments about race were widely perceived as defending racism and hatred -- comments that sent some of his natural domestic allies fleeing -- President Donald Trump could not bring himself to articulate a mea...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Freedom for the Speech We Hate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/17/freedom_for_the_speech_we_hate_134765.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, serious violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a group of white supremacist demonstrators was confronted by a group of folks who were there to condemn the message the demonstrators had come to advance. The message was critical of the government for removing a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanctuary Cities and the Rule of Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/10/sanctuary_cities_and_the_rule_of_law_134701.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the Trump Department of Justice told the mayor of Chicago that it would cease funding grants to the Chicago Police Department that had been approved in the Obama administration because Chicago city officials were not cooperating with federal immigration officials.
The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If Some Spies Are Bad Guys?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/03/what_if_some_spies_are_bad_guys_134645.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What if the federal government captures in real time the contents of every telephone call, email and text message and all the fiber-optic data generated by every person and entity in the United States 24/7/365? What if this mass surveillance was never authorized by any federal law?
What...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump and His Department of Justice: A Clash That Should Not Be]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/27/president_trump_and_his_department_of_justice_a_clash_that_should_not_be_134578.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has made no secret of his unhappiness at the management of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Actually, Trump seems most agitated at the growing parts of the DOJ that are not under Sessions' management.
He is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was Donald Trump Jr.'s Russian Meeting a Criminal Act?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/20/was_donald_trump_jrs_russian_meeting_a_criminal_act_134511.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, The New York Times revealed that in June 2016, Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son; Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and chief confidant; Paul Manafort, Trump's then-campaign chief executive; and others met secretly at Trump Tower with a former Russian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Immigration and the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/29/trump_immigration_and_the_supreme_court_134314.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, after nearly uniform rejections by judges all across the country, President Donald Trump achieved a court victory in the persistent challenges to his most recent executive order restricting the immigration of people into the United States from six predominately Muslim...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is President Trump the Subject of a Criminal Investigation?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/22/is_president_trump_the_subject_of_a_criminal_investigation_134244.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was surprised last weekend when one of President Donald Trump's lawyers told my colleague Chris Wallace twice on "Fox News Sunday" that the president is being investigated by the FBI and then told him twice that he is not. This same lawyer repeated the "not being investigated" argument...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Once in a While, a Good Leak]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/08/once_in_a_while_a_good_leak_134121.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, the FBI arrested an employee of a corporation in Augusta, Georgia, that had a contract with the National Security Agency and charged her with espionage. Espionage occurs when someone who has been entrusted to safeguard state secrets fails to do so. In this case, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spying on You, Spying on Me, Spying on the President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/01/spying_on_you_spying_on_me_spying_on_the_president_134052.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The makers of our Constitution ... conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928
After the Watergate era had ended and Jimmy Carter was in the White...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is President Trump in Trouble?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/25/is_president_trump_in_trouble_133987.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bad news for President Donald Trump keeps coming his way, notwithstanding a generally bravura performance on the foreign stage this past week in Riyadh, Jerusalem and Vatican City. Yet while he was overseas, his colleagues here in the United States have been advising him to hire...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Seven Days in May]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/18/donald_trumps_seven_days_in_may_133909.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a period of seven days this month, President Donald Trump fired James Comey as director of the FBI and was accused of sharing top-secret intelligence data with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador to the United States, the latter a known Russian spy.
The Comey...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The House of Representatives Endorses Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/11/the_house_of_representatives_endorses_obamacare_133842.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Napolitano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives crafted a partisan compromise bill that endorsed and reinforced the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. This was done notwithstanding claims to the contrary by President Donald Trump and the House Republican leadership, who want us to believe...]]></description>
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