Electronic surveillance

Napolitano: ‘Three intelligence sources’ say Obama used British intel service to spy on Trump

Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano believes former President Barack Obama might have gone “outside the chain of command” in order to spy on then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

During a Tuesday morning appearance on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends,” Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge, made the bombshell claim that “three intelligence sources” told the network that Obama used GCHQ, a British intel agency, to spy on the Trump campaign in order to avoid any record of the alleged wiretapping.

“Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command. He didn’t use the NSA, he didn’t use the CIA, he didn’t use the FBI and he didn’t use the Department of Justice,” Napolitano said. “He used GCHQ.”

...The judge, it should be pointed out, offered no evidence to back up his accusations. And in a statement Tuesday afternoon, a spokesperson for the British government rejected the validity of Napolitano’s accusations.