MINNEAPOLIS --- CNN apologized to Julian Assange on Wednesday after an on-air pundit accused the WikiLeaks founder of being a pedophile in the morning, but the network has so far failed to address a similar accusation made by another talking head later in the day. Philip Mudd, a former CIA agent and counterterrorism analyst on the network’s
CNN Retracts Pedophile Claim Against Assange After Wikileaks Threatens Lawsuit
“An analyst on our air earlier today asserted that Julian Assange was a pedophile, and regrets saying it. In fact, CNN has no evidence to support that assertion.”