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UK: Police seized journalists' phone records in order to out Plebgate whistleblowers

05 September 2014

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"A police report yesterday detailed how journalists’ telephone records were seized in order to track down the whistleblowers who revealed former Government chief whip Andrew Mitchell’s altercation with officers outside 10 Downing Street."

See the article: Police seized journalists' phone records in order to out Plebgate whistleblowers (Press Gazette, link)

See also: Interception Commissioner suggests secret police grab of Sun phone records may have been unlawful (Press Gazette, link)

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