Media News - Monday, July 14, 2008
Dutch Supreme Court: secret service allowed to eavesdrop journalists
The Dutch AIVD secret service is under certain conditions allowed to eavesdrop journalists. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a ruling by the appeal court in The Hague, in a dispute between De Telegraaf newspaper and the Dutch state. The AIVD decided in 2006 to tap the phones of De Telegraaf journalists Joost de Haas and Bart Mos after they published information about top criminal Mink Kok. This information came from confidential, classified material of the AIVD itself. According to the appeal court in The Hague, 'weighty interests of the state were at risk.' The AIVD was therefore authorised to deploy so-called special investigation techniques, such as phone-tapping. The Supreme Court upheld this ruling. 'The journalistic protection of sources is not absolute, as it is limited among other things by the protection of national security and the need to prevent the distribution of confidential information,' the Supreme Court stated. (NIS News)
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