editor victoria’s comment ~ the global clean-up continues…
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Federal Police are raiding the ABC’s office, seizing thousands of documents over stories from two years ago, a day after storming a journo’s home.
Australian Federal Police officers are raiding the Sydney headquarters of the ABC over reports published two years ago regarding alleged unlawful killings and misconduct by Special Forces troops in Afghanistan.
The public broadcaster’s Ultimo offices and studios, as well as three employees, are the subject of a search warrant over The Afghan Files special investigation in 2017.
The series of television and online reports was based on hundreds of pages of leaked, classified Defence Force documents.
John Lyons, ABC News executive director and the heads of its investigations unit, is live-tweeting the raid, which is being carried out by six AFP officers, including IT specialists.
They have downloaded 9214 items in relation to an extremely broad warrant, including notes, emails and draft scripts, Mr Lyons said.
The three people named in the search warrant are producer Samuel Clark, reporter Daniel Oakes and Gaven Morris, the broadcaster’s news director.
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