Phone cracking technology supplied by the controversial Israeli company Cellebrite was used on a phone owned by the journalist Barry McCaffrey in September 2018, a day after it was seized in raids conducted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on the homes and offices of McCaffrey and fellow journalist Trevor Birney.  Internal PSNI email correspondence submitted to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal shows the raids and arrests of McCaffrey and Birney were planned as early as April 2018, when Garda Commissioner Drew Harris was Deputy Chief Constable of the PSNI. Harris was appointed Garda Commissioner in June 2018, taking…

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