Zachary Young, who served in the U.S. Navy before becoming a private security consultant, is suing the embattled news network over a 2021 report on The Lead With Jake Tapper that accused him of ...

Tapper and CNN's chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt linked Young to black market operations and the exploitation of individuals trapped in Afghanistan through charging exorbitant ...

In bringing the case, the plaintiff pointed to a segment aired on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper in November 2021 and argued that it portrayed him as an “illegal profiteer” exploiting ...