barry philpot had some concerns, writing...et's find out more about this from ed campbell, who's investigations editor for bbc news. ed, thanks for coming on newswatch. can you talk us through the process, then, of how the government tried to prevent you running the story? sure. so, with all our stories where we allege that some wrongdoing has taken place, we offer a right of reply to the person or the organisation concerned. and in this case, we offered a right to reply to mi5, and we told them the details of the story, not the whole story, but the details of everything that we proposed to say in the story and asked them to respond. essentially, when they did respond, it was to say that they were not going to allow the story to go out and they were going to bring an injunction against us unless we agreed to effectively hold the story. we had some discussions behind the scenes, which i can't really go into, but essentially we came to the point where we decided we had to run the story. we felt it was in the public interest to na