Posted on 03/29/2017 8:48:10 AM PDT by xzins
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.”
ALSO ON MEDIAITEShep Smith: ‘Fox News Cannot Confirm Judge Napolitano’s Commentary’
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.”
Watch above, via Fox.
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Shep gets paid $7-8 million for an early afternoon show.
I think the evening people want to cover breaking news themselves.
Likely he’s on his way out unless he takes a BIG pay cut.
NICE
To see the Judge held his ground
To see the bigwigs at FNC found the err in their ways.
Everyone knows Obama spied on all his enemies, so Fox can stop being stupid. After all, James Rosen was one of the Kenyen’s targets. They even spied on his parents! He was a lawless president and should have been impeached for his many sins against the Constitution he swore to uphold.
I remember that resignation.
Also, there were 3 prongs of NSA dissemination that I read in the last few days. I can’t recall where I read it.
But one of them was McCain’s involvement with the Prostitute Dossier. That pointed to British involvement.
And it was circumstantial verification of Judge Nap.
Seriously....7 million bucks for reading announcements????
Any good church leader can do that.
He doesn’t have to be right. He’s an opinion guy. Does Chris Mathew have to be right all the time? He’s not a reporter. I would hope that he has some source, but to suspend him is ridiculous. I think his legal reasoning got him reinstated. When he mentioned the amount of the law suite, I’m sure they went to legal and were told to put him back on. Now if FNC said he was suspended for “feeling up” Megan McCain, that would be actionable.That has worked for the last few guys they fired.
Nice to see him twice this a.m. on FOX BUSINESS NETWORK..Where we have moved for our news..and that network is growing fast and furious...
As him being a future member of the Supreme Court..I say...GREAT, SMART MAN AND WE NEED SMART PEOPLE THERE...NOW IT IS TIME FOR CONGRESS TO GET JUDGE GORSUCH SEATED...
Fox News has a deep bench and could get someone to do that show for a fraction of the money and get a ratings boost to go with it.
The Judge is an opinion guy and not a hard news type.
His suspension was flimsy and suspicious from the start.
It stepped on the toes of the anti-trumpers oozing from every corner at Fox News and disrupted the “russia” and “wiretap” narratives.
I get tired of folks saying Trump was wrong about wiretapping when they know full well he put it in quotes indicating he was using it as a generic term to cover all forms of surveillance.
Everything positive said about Obama is true until absolutely proven false. Everything negative said about Obama is false, until absolutely proven true (and even after that too).
I’ll read their announcements for only a hundred grand.
I have 40 years experience in the church.
We have been spying on the UK people for their governments. They have been spying on our people for us for 7+ decades for our government.
First of two parts and maybe more on the 7+ decades long history of the UK’s spying on our people and us spying on their people.
UKUSA Agreement aka 5Eyes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UKUSA Community: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States = 5 Eyes.
The United Kingdom – United States of America Agreement (UKUSA, /;/ew-koo-sah)[1][2] is a multilateral agreement for cooperation in signals intelligence between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The alliance of intelligence operations is also known as the Five Eyes.[3][4][5][6][7]
In classification markings this is abbreviated as FVEY, with the individual countries being abbreviated as AUS, CAN, NZL, GBR, and USA, respectively.[8]
Emerging from an informal agreement related to the 1941 Atlantic Charter, the secret treaty was renewed with the passage of the 1943 BRUSA Agreement, before being officially enacted on 5 March 1946 by the United Kingdom and the United States. In the following years, it was extended to encompass Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Other countries, known as “third parties”, such as West Germany, the Philippines, and several Nordic countries also joined the UKUSA community.[9][10]
Much of the sharing of information is performed via the ultra-sensitive STONEGHOST network, which has been claimed to contain “some of the Western world’s most closely guarded secrets”.[11]
Besides laying down rules for intelligence sharing, the agreement formalized and cemented the “Special Relationship” between the UK and the USA.[12][13]
Due to its status as a secret treaty, its existence was not known to the Prime Minister of Australia until 1973,[14] and it was not disclosed to the public until 2005.
[13] On 25 June 2010, for the first time in history, the full text of the agreement was publicly released by the United Kingdom and the United States, and can now be viewed online.[9][15] Shortly after its release, the seven-page UKUSA Agreement was recognized by Time magazine as one of the Cold War’s most important documents, with immense historical significance.[13]
The global surveillance disclosure by Edward Snowden has shown that the intelligence-sharing activities between the First World allies of the Cold War are rapidly shifting into the digital realm of the Internet.[16][17][18]
Due to its status as a secret treaty, its existence was not known to the Prime Minister of Australia until 1973,[14] and it was not disclosed to the public until 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement#Origins_.281940s.E2.80.931950s.29
Is the Good Judge back on his previous show?
There is no doubt in m,y mind that GCHQ was in fact used by obama to try to circumvent the law, This WILL come out . GCHQ is lying to save its ass. No doubt about it.
You are talking about people who don't even have a full grasp of English Grammar. Just get on Facebook or Twitter and read some of the comments from Trump haters. Do you really think they understand the usage (and implication) of putting quotes around a word ?
Let's just say that there is a reason that phones and computers have AUTOCORRECT.
I think the info Nunes viewed at the White House will substantiate that.
My theory is that GCHQ was monitoring pro-Brexit Nigel Farage (or the NSA was monitoring him on behalf of the Brits), and Trump’s people were picked up in any correspondence with him.
If Shrimp Smith were kicked off the air I might consider watching some FoxNews again. As long as he’s around I boycott the POS channel along with all the others.
Wouldn't "Shepardess Smith" be more accurate?
I stopped watching Shep Smith years ago. After seeing his on-air hysterics during Fox’s Katrina coverage, I honestly thought he was mildly retarded.
FISA is the queen that loves Comey.
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