Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
Probity Cop-Out Commission?The PCC is so piss-poor it needs a nickname, much like the Fundamentally Supine Authority or Serious Farce Office. Has anyone spotted anything or come up with a good one themselves?
Probity Cop-Out Commission?The PCC is so piss-poor it needs a nickname, much like the Fundamentally Supine Authority or Serious Farce Office. Has anyone spotted anything or come up with a good one themselves?
The PCC is so piss-poor it needs a nickname, much like the Fundamentally Supine Authority or Serious Farce Office. Has anyone spotted anything or come up with a good one themselves?
Press Controlled Commission
"Andy Coulson knew a lot of people did it at the Sun on his Bizarre [showbiz] column and after that at the NOTW," McMullan claimed.
McMullan, who is now a pub landlord, also described a flourishing trade in private information at the News of the World, which he said was regularly supplied with details of celebrities' medical records and mobile phone pin numbers.
"People who worked for Vodaphone [sic] etc would sometimes ring up the newsdesk offering to sell numbers and codes of stars' phones," he said, "as indeed people at the tax office, people in doctors' receptions."
In separate evidence also published today, Vodafone told the committee: "A small minority of customers were targeted by unscrupulous individuals."
The company said it had passed all evidence to the police during their 2006 investigation into phone hacking carried out by former News of the World journalist Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/04/andy-coulson-phone-hacking
And, all you had to do to avoid this IIRC was change your access code from the default 0000 to something else.
Anyone in public life today who has not changed their code is a mug.
Except when someone from Vodafone rang up the News of the World and sold them your new code.
I accept that that is possible but I expect only a small number of people at Vodafone would have had access to such information so with any luck they should be nabbed.
I accept that that is possible but I expect only a small number of people at Vodafone would have had access to such information so with any luck they should be nabbed.
The Guardian said:Just a fortnight after reopening their inquiry, in the wake of an 18-month campaign by the Guardian, police said a re-examination of the evidence they had held for years, but failed to fully investigate, combined with new evidence from the Sunday tabloid, had thrown up an "important and immediate new line of inquiry". The new investigation, they said, had already established "reasonable evidence" that up to 20 people, mainly prominent public figures, were targeted by the paper.
It doesn't necessarily require collusion from Vodafone. Hacks could also phone up Vodafone with easily found personal information, pretending to be the person and claiming they forgot their PIN.
Senior Metropolitan police officers were enjoying private dinners with News of the World editors at the same time as the force was responsible for investigating the phone-hacking scandal, it has been disclosed.
A list of meetings that Scotland Yard has handed over to the Metropolitan Police Authority, which supervises the service, discloses eight previously unpublicised private dinners and five other occasions during which senior officers met with newspaper executives.
Two of the dinners came at particularly sensitive moments and are likely to revive fears that Scotland Yard's handling of the phone-hacking scandal may have been compromised by a desire to avoid alienating the UK's biggest-selling newspaper.
In legal actions brought by the comedian Steve Coogan and the former Sky Sports presenter Andy Gray, Mulcaire must now respond to inquiries about the names of News of the World journalists who ordered his services and the identity of celebrities whose phones were hacked.
Prescott was told by the Met in January that his phone messages may have been intercepted by Mulcaire, following its decision to reopen its investigation into phone-hacking. He claimed that further evidence would shortly emerge proving that a journalist at the Sunday Times, another Rupert Murdoch-owned paper, was hacking into mobile phone messages.
A man cleared of murder can be named as a private investigator with links to corrupt police officers who earned £150,000 a year from the News of the World for supplying illegally obtained information on people in the public eye.
Jonathan Rees was acquitted of the murder of his former business partner, Daniel Morgan, who was found in a south London car park in 1987 with an axe in the back of his head. The case collapsed after 18 months of legal argument, during which it has been impossible for media to write about Rees's Fleet Street connections.
The ending of the trial means it is now possible for the first time to tell how Rees went to prison in December 2000 after a period of earning six-figure sums from the News of the World.
Rees, who had worked for the paper for seven years, was jailed for planting cocaine on a woman in order to discredit her during divorce proceedings. After his release from prison Rees, who had been bugged for six months by Scotland Yard because of his links with corrupt police officers, was rehired by the News of the World, which was being edited by Andy Coulson.
It doesn't necessarily require collusion from Vodafone. Hacks could also phone up Vodafone with easily found personal information, pretending to be the person and claiming they forgot their PIN.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/11/jonathan-rees-private-investigator-tabloid
More on Rees,looking very icky for Coulson
Rees, who had worked for the paper for seven years, was jailed for planting cocaine on a woman in order to discredit her during divorce proceedings. After his release from prison Rees, who had been bugged for six months by Scotland Yard because of his links with corrupt police officers, was rehired by the News of the World, which was being edited by Andy Coulson.
The revelations call into question David Cameron's judgment in choosing Coulson as director of communications at 10 Downing Street in May 2010. Both he and the deputy prime minister had been warned in March 2010 about Coulson's responsibility for rehiring Rees after his prison sentence.
A man cleared of murder can be named as a private investigator with links to corrupt police officers who earned £150,000 a year from the News of the World for supplying illegally obtained information on people in the public eye.
Jonathan Rees was acquitted of the murder of his former business partner, Daniel Morgan, who was found in a south London car park in 1987 with an axe in the back of his head. The case collapsed after 18 months of legal argument, during which it has been impossible for media to write about Rees's Fleet Street connections....
All of these articles are strongly implying police corruption and collusion.