Andrew Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge and Seton Hall University adjunct professor, has been removed indefinitely from his post as an analyst on Fox News following widely discredited claims he made regarding surveillance directed against President Donald Trump, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

Last week, citing unnamed intelligence sources, Napolitano said the Government Communications Headquarters, a British government intelligence agency, conducted surveillance on President Trump at the behest of President Barack Obama.

Andrew Napolitano (file photo)

Napolitano's report, which appeared in a column on the Fox web site, comes after Trump alleged in a March 4 series of tweets that Obama had "wire tapped" Trump's phones. Napolitano, whose allegation was repeated by press secretary Sean Spicer during a White House press conference and by Trump, also said the British were asked to conduct the surveillance to possibly cloak Obama's involvement.

Napolitano's allegation was immediately refuted by American elected officials, the news division of Fox, and, in a rare public statement, by the British agency itself, GCHQ. During Congressional testimony Monday, both FBI Director James Comey and National Security Director Michael Rogers said there was no evidence to support claims Obama arranged to have Trump phones wiretapped.

Napolitano, a Newark native and a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame, served on the bench in New Jersey from 1987 to 1995. He joined Fox in 1998 and had been working as a senior judicial analyst for the network.

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