ANDREW McCARTHY: Prosecuting Charlie Kirk's alleged killer in the social media age
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Former prosecutor compares media coverage of Charlie Kirk's murder case involving Tyler Robinson to the 1993 Omar Abdel Rahman terrorism prosecution.
Andrew C. McCarthy serves as a FOX News contributor and is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review. Follow him on Twitter @andrewcmccarthy
Naturally, some conspiracy theories were peddled about our case. Maybe it was an inside job by the FBI – a pretext to harass Muslims. Or maybe Saddam Hussein’s regime had orchestrated it. Maybe the Egyptian intelligence services had a hand in it. Or – because no conspiracy theory would be complete without this – maybe it was the Mossad!
The difference between then and now? There was no social media.
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