No one will be charged in connection with the leak of plans to extend spying powers,
Australian federal
police say
The Australian federal police has ruled out pursuing charges against the News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst or anyone else for her story revealing plans to extend the Australian Signals Directorate’s spying powers.
The AFP deputy commissioner of investigations, Ian McCartney, told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday the case involved a “serious breach” of the law, involving the release of “top security” national security information that “needed to be investigated”.