Fox’s Napolitano pushes another baseless claim: A congressional IT staffer was “selling” information abroad
Andrew Napolitano: Imran Awan, who was arrested for bank fraud, was "selling [information] to foreign nationals and foreign intelligence services”
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Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano claimed that a recently-arrested former congressional information technology (IT) staffer was “selling [information] to foreign nationals and foreign intelligence services” during his tenure on Capitol Hill. There is no evidence to back up Napolitano’s claim. Napolitano said that Imran Awan, the former IT specialist who worked for several House Democrats and who was arrested for bank fraud, used his access to congressional computers and was “gathering information and selling it to foreign nationals and foreign intelligence services.” Napolitano’s claim appears to be echoed by the chronically wrong pro-Trump website The Gateway Pundit, but does not appear to be supported by any other independent news outlet. Others at Fox and in fringe media have pushed conspiracy theories about Awan's arrest.
This is not the first time Napolitano has been caught pushing dubious claims and conspiracy theories. In March, Napolitano came under fire for pushing the debunked claim that then-President Barack Obama used the British intelligence community to wiretap Trump Tower during the 2016 election. He has also suggested that the government lied about the cause of the September 11 attacks and suggested that Obama surveilled the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. From the July 31 edition of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom: