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		</div><p>The legal analyst who claimed British intelligence could have helped spy on Donald Trump during his bid to become US president has been taken off the air.</p>
<p>Andrew Napolitano (pictured below) has been pulled from the Fox News Channel, a source at the organisation said.</p>
<p>The analyst&#8217;s claim that the British intelligence agency GCHQ had helped former president Barack Obama bug Trump Tower was cited last week by White House press secretary Sean Spicer, sparking a diplomatic incident.</p>
<p>GCHQ publicly denied the assertion, describing it as &#8220;utterly ridiculous&#8221;, while Downing Street said it had secured an assurance that the allegation would not be repeated.</p>
<p>Mr Trump referred to Mr Napolitano, a retired judge, as a &#8220;very talented legal mind&#8221; and of the claim he said: <i>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t make an opinion on it.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Both America&#8217;s National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI have flatly denied allegations by Mr Trump that he was bugged.</p>
<p>NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers insisted his organisation did not ask GCHQ to spy on the candidate during his campaign.</p>
<p>Asked if President Trump making &#8220;baseless&#8221; claims against British security services damaged the close relationship between the two nations, Admiral Rogers said: <i>&#8220;I think it clearly frustrates a key ally of ours.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>When pressed at US congressional hearings whether the incident would have a bad impact on security ties between the US and Britain, he said: <i>&#8220;I believe that the relationship is strong enough &#8230; this is something we will be able to deal with.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>FBI director James Comey also denied the suggestion made by Mr Trump in a tweet earlier this month that he had been bugged by Mr Obama.</p>
<p>At the hearings, Mr Comey said: <i>&#8220;With respect to the president&#8217;s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the FBI; the Department of Justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the Department of Justice in all its components.</p>
<p>&#8220;The department has no information that supports those tweets.&#8221;</i></p>
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