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Wed 02 Feb 2007Editor's anger over journalist's arrestA newspaper editor today described the arrest of a journalist over a report containing leaked information about a bungled Garda inquiry as an attack on press freedom.Editor of the Evening HeraldStephen Rae was commenting after a former reporter and editor at the newspaper, Mick McCaffrey, was arrested this morning in Dublin.