McCaffrey said it is hard to "treat this idea as anything but a tragic comedy in a way." It's "not a real idea," he added.

We now know that the PSNI spied on me five times to identify journalistic sources Barry McCaffrey “Indeed the documents show the PSNI branded myself and other journalists as criminals.” ...

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled last year that a covert surveillance operation authorised by a Northern Ireland police chief in a bid to unmask the journalistic sources of award-winning ...