Judge Andrew Napolitano Returns to Fox News: Still Stands by British Surveillance Report

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: MEDIAITE

URL: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/judge-andrew-napolitano-stands-by-british-surveillance-report-in-return-to-fox-news/

by Ken Meyer




Judge Andrew Napolitano spoke on Fox News, Wednesday, making his first appearance on the network after pushing a controversial report in defense of President Trump‘s claims of wiretapping during the 2016 election.

Anchors Bret Baier and Shepard Smith previously said that Fox could not independently confirm the accuracy of Napolitano’s claim that the British intelligence service GCHQ facilitated the wiretapping. During Napolitano’s spot on America’s Newsroom today, Bill Hemmer noted that “you’ve had a few quiet days.”

Hemmer then asked the judge whether he was still confident in the story, to which the Fox judicial analyst said yes.

The American public needs to know more about this rather than less because a lot of the government surveillance authorities will expire in the Fall and there’ll be a great debate on how much authority we want the government to have to surveil us, and the more the American public knows the more informed there and Congress’s decisions will be.

Napolitano has been absent from the network ever since White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer cited his allegations in defense of the president’s claims. The White House was ultimately forced to (sort of) apologize to the United Kingdom after GCHQ called the charge “utterly ridiculous.”

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[SirLinksALot]

It's a big puzzle to me, if he was suspended for what he said and still stands by what he said, why was he allowed to return?

This makes the suspension irrational.

[truth_seeker]

The term "suspended," usually connotes a temporary timeframe.

Although perhaps he was suspended, further information concluded there was no problem with his reporting.

No big deal.  Journalism has declined very seriously.

One version of the story held that a retired UK intelligence operative performed the "spying," on Trump. Hence he was an ordinary civilian citizen not an official government operative.

Hence the deniability by official UK sources.

There is almost always a factual basis for Trump's claims. He states them in a manner that is either brutishly inarticulate, or brilliantly clever.

One thing is certain: He has been the source of a degree of disruption of the media, like no "principled conservative" could have been.

He is advancing American interests, and conservatism, far more than Presidents McCain, Romney or Jebbush/Lindagraham/Kasich/Cruz/Rubio/Mcmullen et all.

[truth_seeker]

"Factual basis" from the lips of a PhD in the Obama administration (favorite #nevertrump source, too):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapRNpEjXUo

[Emjay]

The term "suspended," usually connotes a temporary timeframe.

Although perhaps he was suspended, further information concluded there was no problem with his reporting.

No big deal.  Journalism has declined very seriously.

One version of the story held that a retired UK intelligence operative performed the "spying," on Trump. Hence he was an ordinary civilian citizen not an official government operative.

Hence the deniability by official UK sources.

There is almost always a factual basis for Trump's claims. He states them in a manner that is either brutishly inarticulate, or brilliantly clever.

One thing is certain: He has been the source of a degree of disruption of the media, like no "principled conservative" could have been.

He is advancing American interests, and conservatism, far more than Presidents McCain, Romney or Jebbush/Lindagraham/Kasich/Cruz/Rubio/Mcmullen et all.

Oddly enough, I agree with your post.