Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week at the age of 81. The New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.” In reality, Mueller was simply a twenty-first century version of J. Edgar Hoover, trampling the Constitution and seizing new power on any pretext. Mueller took over the FBI one week before the 9/11 attacks and he was worse than clueless afterwards. On September 14, 2011, Mueller declared, “The fact that there were a number of individuals that happened to have received training at flight schools here is news, quite...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday called for Minneapolis to “set up a peaceful protest zone so that these individuals can exercise their First Amendment rights and do so peacefully.” Since 9/11, “free speech zones” have been one of the biggest constitutional shams around. Both major political parties have used “free speech zone” restrictions to seek to silence dissent.  As I wrote in 2004 in The Baltimore Sun, the Democratic National Convention that year was downright bizarre: "In Boston, police and convention organizers aimed to restrict protesters to a large...