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Free speech is being compromised by police spying
TIM DAWSON looks at how obsessive police surveillance of journalists undermines the very essence of democracy
VINDICATED: Journalists Barry McCaffrey (left) and Trevor Birney (right) speak to the media after leaving the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, on May 7 2024, following an Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) hearing over claims they were secretly monitored by police
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HOWEVER it is dressed up, the surveillance operation on journalists mounted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is staggering.
For a decade, officers spied on Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, two of the journalists behind No Stone Unturned (2017), a documentary film about police collusion with the perpetrators of 1994’s Lochinisland massacre.
PSNI obtained phone records and emails. They mounted a dramatic dawn raid on the journalists in a sting operation designed to force journalistic sources to break cover.
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