Don’t go on the telly. ITV News reporter Jon Gilbert gives the back story to his interview with FBI informant Mohammed Junaid Babar. In 2001, it ran on my old show – five news (we couldn’t afford capital letters) – and was then picked up by CNN on syndication from ITN. That’s when someone from the FBI saw it, and three years later Babar himself was picked up by said organization.

Now Babar wouldn’t have been given the time of day on Fox News…so maybe there is something to be said for the patriotic security role of the liberal media.