Ministry of Justice officials were told on 14 December that Labour MP Sadiq Khan had been bugged, an internal investigation has revealed.
They and his special adviser were told that a journalist was pursuing the story, but Justice Secretary Jack Straw and other ministers were not told.
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Mr Straw assumed the media story about Mr Khan was a political smear.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said Mr Straw was not therefore told about the allegations that conversations between Mr Khan and Babar Ahmad had been bugged.
He said that privately officials admit that alarm bells should have sounded when they had a press enquiry about the bugging of a conversation involving an MP.
(BBC)
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