CNN is in a world of hurt after defaming a security contractor who risked his life to rescue women under threat from the Taliban.
There isn’t any question about the defamation, and a judge ruled that the network exhibited actual malice when they worked overtime to destroy the man–a bar so high that it is almost never met. Internal emails showed that the reporters’ and producers’ goals were to destroy the man and his reputation.
So in a desperate attempt to escape upwards of a billion dollars in liability, CNN’s defense is now: by helping women escape the Taliban he was breaking Sharia law.
At issue is a vile report the network did in which they slandered Zachary Young as a human trafficker. Young was saving women who had worked for or collaborated with the United States government–they had been left behind by the Biden Administration–and were being hunted by the Taliban for…
