Cameron won’t order inquiry into NOTW tel hacking

[Jovial Monk]

Video, Cameron’s reaction to the news that Gordon Brown’s son’s medical details were hacked. You might recall that what Brown and Cameron have in common, and what underpins a personal friendship, is the loss of a child

David Cameron: Gordon Brown hacking allegations are ‘heartbreaking’David Cameron has said that allegations that Gordon Brown’s personal information was hacked are “completely unacceptable.” Brown’s reaction to little Ivan Cameron’s death @ Gordon Brown saddened by death of David Cameron’s sonPrime Minister Gordon Brown led condolences following the death of Conservative leader David Cameron’s son Ivan.

If the hacking of the phones of murdered young girls ignited Britain’s rage, the revelation of Rebekah Brook’s phone call to Brown telling them her paper was about to publish medical reports of his son’s Cystic Fibrosis – information the Browns (who’d already lost a baby daughter) had not yet received – ignited Cameron’s. If Murdoch’s influence over the Cameron-Clegg government wasn’t already “dead as a dodo” it was after that revelation. In fact, Cameron seems to have reached the Right up yours, you unspeakable DS stage.

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/ ... ent-939452

No wonder Cameron and the other 2 Leaders will be leading his party through the lobbies to vote against Murdoch getting his claws onto BSkyB.

[Super Nova]

Update:
Murdoch has pulled out of BSkyB bid.
it appears the law in the US has been broken so the US will get involved. This will be very bad for News Corp.
Met police chief set to be suspended as he is recalled to face MPs over phone hacking and links to Neil Wallis. oh now he has resigned.
Prime Minister says "all the issues" from the phone-hacking scandal need to be urgently addressed.
Lauchlan Murdoch has stated they inadvertantly mislead parliment.
This is going to be bigger than Ben Hur and go on for years.

Murdoch has historically been to powerful to touch. I think he as about to be touched.
Bad timing as they had big plans to continue news corps growth and influence. This could be end of a superpower in the media space.

[donniedarko]

11:30 tonight on ABC24 live the Murdoch's + Rebekkah Brooks front the MPs.....almost worth staying up for....

[Pastafarian]

Watched a fair bit of it. Was quite interesting. I get the feeling that the Murdochs didn't know what was going on, but in terms of governance thats as bad as knowing what was going on.

[Jovial Monk]

I got the feeling they wanted to make us think they didn’t know what was going on.

Love to see James in gaol for a good stretch—the things the papers in his control did are very far from what is excusable!

[The Artist formerly known as Sappho]

Watched a fair bit of it. Was quite interesting. I get the feeling that the Murdochs didn't know what was going on, but in terms of governance thats as bad as knowing what was going on.

Your 'feelings' may have led you astray then. As it turns out. James Murdoch allegedly knew more than he was letting on, although in a media release, by his lawyer I think, James sticks by his parliamentary committee disclosures.

Two former executives broke ranks with News Corp. for the first time on Thursday over whether James Murdoch knew in 2008 that the phone-hacking scandal at the company's now-defunct U.K. tabloid likely involved more than just one rogue reporter, as the company had long maintained. ...

"Colin Myler, former editor of the News of the World tabloid, and Tom Crone, a former lawyer for the paper, said in a joint statement that in 2008 they informed Mr. Murdoch, now News Corp.'s deputy chief operating officer, about a crucial e-mail suggesting that phone hacking went beyond one reporter. ...

"Mr. Murdoch on Tuesday said before a parliamentary committee in the U.K. that he had never been made aware of the e-mail — even though he had approved a roughly £700,000 settlement ($1.1 million) in the matter.

[Jovial Monk]

This is getting beyond a fucking joke!

Phone hacking: victims' lawyers were targeted
Investigators made dossiers on private lives for News International

By James Cusick and Cahal Milmo
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SUSANNAH IRELAND; GETTY IMAGES; REX FEATURES
Private detectives made dossiers on lawyers Charlotte Harris, Mark Lewis and Mark Thomson, who were leading claims against News International over phone hacking

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News International sanctioned the use of private detectives as recently as six months ago to conduct surveillance and compile dossiers on the private lives of three lawyers who are leading damages claims against the News of the World for illegal phone hacking.

One of the lawyers, Mark Lewis, whose clients include the family of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, told The Independent that the use of private detectives against him "crossed a new line" and threatened his ability to do his job. The reports gathered on the lawyers include claims about their personal lives, political beliefs and health.

The dossiers were submitted to senior executives at Rupert Murdoch's newspaper group at a time when it was still seeking to limit the hacking scandal by insisting voicemail interception was restricted to a single "rogue" reporter. The Law Society described the allegations as "another low point" in the hacking scandal and said it had written to the Leveson inquiry asking for the issue to be explored in the course of its investigations into illegal newsgathering. The Independent understands that Tom Crone, the NOTW's former chief lawyer, will be asked by MPs on Tuesday who at News International (NI) was responsible for sanctioning the snooping operation against the lawyers, who include Charlotte Harris and Mark Thomson. He will be questioned by the House of Commons' Media Select Committee.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr ... 48387.html

[Jovial Monk]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-07/b ... st/2875634

Sixteenth arrest in the NotW phone hacking matter.

Rupe' must be having trouble footing all the legal bills arising, 20% cost cutting effort in his shit sheet here. I would love the govt to help him by saving him all those pages of APS advertising which should allow him to cut costs. Of course, that would also cut his revenue by about $15m a year and that would be the cherry on the top!