Ken Klukowski is a brilliant constitutional lawyer. He worked in the Trump administration and cooperated willingly with the January 6 Committee.
For his trouble and good faith, he was smeared last week by Liz Cheney and others, who accused him falsely of joining a plot to overturn the election.
Ken, my Breitbart colleague, is challenging the committee to release the whole transcript of his deposition. They won't do it, but should be forced to do so.
This is the beginning of the fight back against this farce, which is illegally constituted and is trampling civil liberties as well as basic moral principles.
You can't show only one side of the story. You can't hold hearings behind closed doors and cherry-pick what the public sees. You can't threaten witnesses.
The committee should not have been allowed to hold public hearings until legal challenges to its validity were heard. Americans' civil rights have been violated.
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...