GCHQ - MI5 - Investigate Journalists are 'a potential threat to security'

GCHQ - MI5 - Investigate Journalists are 'a potential threat to security'


British spooks rated ‘investigative journalists’ alongside terrorists and hackers as potential security threats, secret documents reveal.

Internal advice circulated by intelligence chiefs at the Government spy centre GCHQ reveal that ‘journalists and reporters representing all types of news media represent a potential threat to security’.

The revelation, buried in intelligence documents leaked by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, comes amid growing calls for the security services to be handed more power to monitor the internet following the Paris terror attacks.

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