French Admit Secret Service Spied on Reporter

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By: Rudhan Mac Cormaic | irishtimes.com

French Interior minister Claude Guéant has admitted that the secret service spied on a journalist from the newspaper Le Monde to trace the source of a leak that embarrassed President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party.

Senior ministers last year ridiculed claims by Le Monde that the Élysée Palace had ordered the intelligence service to carry out an inquiry into the paper’s coverage of the Bettencourt party funding scandal.































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