Inquiry live feed abruptly cut after former police officer says smearing people is ‘security service job’

Inquiry live feed abruptly cut after former police officer makes suspicious commentSource Undercover Policing Inquiry

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00:00Did he say anything to you to the effect that he'd been asked to gather intelligence with which to smear the Lawrence family?

00:09I saw this, I heard this subsequently and I thought that was, no disrespect to Peter, I thought nonsense.

00:16That's not what we're about. We're about gathering intelligence, not smearing individuals.

00:22That's a security service job, let them do that. We're bothered about gathering intelligence. That's what we were doing.

00:29Sorry, I shouldn't say that.

00:32Just to be clear, are you or are you not in a position to say whether or not the security service was seeking to smear you?