Federal agents later reviewed more than 9,000 documents, according to John Lyons, ABC News’s executive editor. The raid is the second this week by Australian Federal Police on a journalist and comes at a time of growing concerns of eroded press freedoms around the world and in the U.S. Advocates decried the police actions at ABC’s headquarters and warned it would have a chilling effect on investigative reporting in the country. Their warrant covered an “extraordinary range” of people and documents related to the Afghan files, Lyons tweeted, mentioning handwritten and digital notes, emails and even graphics related to the piece. Agents, lawyers and broadcast executives huddled in a room and reviewed 9,214 files, Lyons wrote, including thousands of internal emails.

Source: Washington Post June 05, 2019 10:20 UTC