XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.legal, alt.politics.uk   
   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   > Looks like CNN has some apologizing to do.   
   >    
   > After Judge Andrew Napolitano was suspended from Fox News for   
   > reporting that former President Barack Obama used British   
   > intelligence to help spy on Trump Tower, CNN has been on a non-stop   
   > attack.   
   >    
   > Until Friday, that is, when they confirmed that Napolitano was right   
   > — and, therefore, CNN’s reports attacking him were ALL false.   
   >    
   > Following Napolitano’s bombshell reveal on Fox News in mid-March,   
   > critics say it was CNN that led the charge against both him and   
   > President Donald Trump.   
   >    
   > For example, in a March 17th article, CNN called it an   
   > “uncorroborated segment” that was made “amid widespread disbelief and   
   > utter denials of the explosive charge.” CNN then said Napolitano’s   
   > reporting blurred the line between reporting and political   
   > commentating.   
   >    
   > Later that same day, the network — which Trump has repeatedly accused   
   > of liberal bias and “fake news” — attacked the White House over their   
   > refusal to apologize for repeating the report. On March 20th, CNN   
   > gleefully announced that Napolitano had been “benched by the network”   
   > and that Fox News anchor Sheppard Smith “disavowed Napolitano’s   
   > claims.”   
   >    
   > And on March 29th, their anchors angrily told viewers that Napolitano   
   > was standing-by his “false spy claim” and that Fox News had “no   
   > evidence to back up” the report when they announced Napolitano’s   
   > return to the network.   
   >    
   > They’re singing a different tune now.   
   >    
   > Friday, CNN — two weeks after calling Napolitano’s claims “false”   
   > with no evidence — released the following article: “British   
   > intelligence passed Trump associates’ communications with Russians on   
   > to US counterparts.”   
   >    
   > In other words, British intelligence was sharing ill-gotten spying   
   > information it collected on Trump with the Obama administration.   
   >    
   > That’s right, CNN has done a complete flip-flop… 28 days after first   
   > launching an unfair attack against Napolitano over the same report.   
   >    
   >    
   > Napolitano first reported: “Three intelligence sources have informed   
   > Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command [to   
   > spy on Trump]. He didn’t use the NSA, he didn’t use the CIA… he used   
   > [British intelligence agency GCHQ].”   
   >    
   > Friday, CNN reported: “British and European intelligence agencies,   
   > including GCHQ, the British intelligence agency responsible for   
   > communications surveillance … picked up [Trump] communications during   
   > what’s known as ‘incidental collection,'” according to sources, and   
   > the British “passed on those communications to their US counterparts”   
   > in the Obama administration.   
   >    
   > Sounds like CNN and the rest of the liberal media owes Napolitano an   
   > apology.   
   >    
      
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