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Home Front: Politix
Fox Pulls Napolitano From Air After Trump Report
2017-03-21
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News Channel has pulled legal analyst Andrew Napolitano from the air after disavowing his on-air claim that British intelligence officials had helped former President Barack Obama spy on Donald Trump.

A person with knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because it was a personnel matter said Napolitano has been benched and won't be appearing on the air in the near future. Fox had no immediate comment Monday.

Napolitano's report last week on "Fox & Friends," saying he had three intelligence sources who said Obama went "outside the chain of command" to watch Trump, provoked an international incident. Britain dismissed the report as "nonsense" after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer quoted it in a briefing, part of the administration's continued defense of Trump's unproven contention that Obama had wiretapped him at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  I thought it was common knowledge that the '5 eyes' spy on each others citizens to bypass national laws.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-03-21 20:30  

#9  There was this paper from the late 90s published in Oz that explained that part of the game. It came right after the US spying on Soviet Sats spying on the US so that it wasn't direct spying on the US population.
Posted by: 3dc   2017-03-21 15:19  

#8  Perhaps it was true, and the value of the "*" process for internal screening of each other's citizens is considered so vital to national security that it's exposure is viewed as a catastrophic setback to the WOT. I suspect The judge was told to be silent and because of his integrity refused. Hence his benching.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-03-21 11:46  

#7  It's all stageplay theatre for the masses, JohnQC.
That's why they each have their scripts. You will often see a camera cut to an empty face 'listening' to a question, that is being read.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-03-21 09:42  

#6  Napolitano has been benched and won't be appearing on the air in the near future.

It sounds more like he was given a time out than that he was sacked, DepotGuy. But perhaps this is how they ease him off the payroll without upsetting his fans.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-03-21 09:23  

#5  It wouldn't be the first time a news analyst/commentator has made unsubstantiated claims. So why did he get sacked? There's more than a good chance he was told by the news division not to say anything until they could verify the report but he chose to ignore them.
Posted by: DepotGuy    2017-03-21 08:19  

#4  #2  Anyone who tells the truth must be yanked.
Exactly Herb. Must be that truth is not valued in DC. The hearings are Kabuki theater. Why do I always get this feeling that when someone won't give a straight answer or that when they invoke the cloak of security to not testify, I think they are lying or complicit?
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-03-21 08:09  

#3  If a man builds a thousand bridges.....
~ Vince Boudreau
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-21 06:19  

#2  Anyone who tells the truth must be yanked. CNN did this all the time to support Hillary.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309   2017-03-21 04:19  

#1  Meanwhile, the FBI Director makes 'wise cracks' about New England Patriots during congressional testimony.

Link
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-21 02:18  

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