{"id":46540,"date":"2019-06-05T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T21:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46540"},"modified":"2019-06-05T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T21:07:00","slug":"more-police-raids-as-war-on-journalism-escalates-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46540","title":{"rendered":"More Police Raids As War On Journalism Escalates Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More Police Raids As War On Journalism Escalates Worldwide<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Australian Federal Police have conducted two raids on journalists and seized documents in purportedly unrelated incidents in the span of just two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday the AFP raided the home<\/a> of News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst, seeking information related to her investigative report last year which exposed the fact that the Australian government has been discussing the possibility of giving itself unprecedented powers to spy on its own citizens. Today they raided the Sydney headquarters<\/a> of the Australian Broadcasting Corp, seizing information related to a 2017 investigative report on possible war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a third, also ostensibly unrelated incident, another Australian reporter\u00a0disclosed yesterday<\/a>\u00a0that the Department of\u00a0Home Affairs has initiated an investigation of his reporting on a story about asylum seeker boats which could lead to an AFP criminal case, saying he\u2019s being pressured to disclose his source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AFP: I\u2019m still staggered by the power of this warrant. It allows the AFP to \u201cadd, copy, delete or alter\u201d material in the ABC\u2019s computers. All Australians, please think about that: as of this moment, the AFP has the power to delete material in the ABC\u2019s computers. Australia 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy has AFP suddenly decided to carry out these two raids after the election?\u201d tweeted<\/a> Australian Sky News political editor David Speers during the Sydney raid. \u201cDid new evidence really just emerge in both the Annika Smethurst and ABC stories?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why indeed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf these raids unconnected, as AFP reportedly said, it\u2019s an extraordinary coincidence,\u201d tweeted<\/a> The Conversation<\/em> chief political correspondent Michelle Grattan. \u201cAFP needs to explain ASAP the timing so long after the stories. It can\u2019t be that inefficient! Must be some explanation \u2013 which makes the \u2018unconnected\u2019 claim even more odd.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odd indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More Police Raids As War On Journalism Escalates Worldwide The Australian Federal Police have conducted two raids on journalists and seized documents in purportedly unrelated incidents in the span of just two days. Yesterday the AFP raided the home of News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst, seeking information related to her investigative report last year which exposed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7264,41,17039,632],"class_list":["post-46540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-abc","tag-australia","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46541,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46540\/revisions\/46541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}