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Andy Coulson, the Met Police and Murdoch

More dirt in the graun and on R4 this morning - the guy who used to be an intelligence officer who was on R4 sounded distinctly unhappy:

The News of the World phone-hacking scandal is set to reach a new peak of embarrassment for the paper and for Scotland Yard with the naming of the sixth and most senior journalist yet to be implicated in illegal news-gathering.

A BBC Panorama programme claims that Alex Marunchak, formerly the paper's senior executive editor, commissioned a specialist snooper who illegally intercepted email messages from a target's computer and faxed copies of them to Marunchak's News of the World office.

The embarrassment is heightened by the fact that the target was a former British army intelligence officer who had served in Northern Ireland and was in possession of secrets which were deemed so sensitive that they had been suppressed by a court order....
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/13/phone-hacking-panorama-names-journalist
 
Military shit? The Irish editor having court-restricted stuff stolen...this is beyond celebrity gossip.

That's national security, it's about fucking time a high up MP stepped fucking in and got to grips with this shit.

They are not seriously going to sit back and shut up while all this is coming out?
Some independent body should step forward and demand the right to take this over.
 
I'd go the other way, affairs of state has a stronger "public interest" defense than poking through Sienna Miller (or whoever else is suing)'s private life
 
Yates of the Yard giving evidence to Select Committee right now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_8167000/8167512.stm

Guardian said:
The culture, media and sport committee will question John Yates, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, following comments he made to MPs last year that the Met could only prove that hacking took place in a small number of cases.

Yates, who may appear before the committee as early as Thursday, told the home affairs select committee in September the Met would only be able to act in about 10-12 cases because the Crown Prosecution Service had adopted a narrow interpretation of the legislation which outlaws it.

He said the CPS had advised that convictions could only be secured if it were proved that voicemail messages had been intercepted by a third party before they had been listened to by their intended recipient.

The former Labour minister Chris Bryant, who believes his own phone was hacked, said in the Commons last week that Yates had misled parliament by claiming the Met's hands were tied because of the advice from the CPS.
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DexterTCN said:
Military shit? The Irish editor having court-restricted stuff stolen...this is beyond celebrity gossip.

That's national security, it's about fucking time a high up MP stepped fucking in and got to grips with this shit.

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A lot of this has to do with the military intelligence officer having had access
to (and dealings with) one of the British governments higher agents within the IRA..suppossed to be
"steak-knife".....who was the head of their "security unit" and was responsible
for debreifiing their vol`s after there arrests etc etc..
He`s done a runner from Ireland (some say to Italy)...
But its only a matter of time before hes found dead on a beach..either by ex-members or M15..to stop him revealing the truth...
 
probably took them all this time to cleanse them of the offending emails relating to this case.

plus all the usual OMG GET ME SOME C0CA!NE ones
 
There have been suggestions in the press recently that the ultimate target of the prosecution might be Rebekah Brooks herself. Here's hoping that's the case :D
 
I was sorta hoping it'd bring down a large section of the Met and the entire Murdoch empire.

Too ambitious?
 
T & P said:
There have been suggestions in the press recently that the ultimate target of the prosecution might be Rebekah Brooks herself. Here's hoping that's the case :D
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Here's hoping that they can find the will and the way to hold the Chief Executive responsible. Wossname. Kane, is it?




















Oh, look. Porcine aviation.
 
ohmyliver said:
I can only hope they get accidentally leaked to the general public.
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Yeah that'd be interesting. Could be all sorts of fun things on the Sun / News of the World mailservers ...

"Protestor killed by plod, you are invited to a meeting to brainstorm smear tactics with met at 3pm"
 
ymu said:
I was sorta hoping it'd bring down a large section of the Met and the entire Murdoch empire.

Too ambitious?
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When I read about James Murdoch getting a recent bump up News Corp and moving to the USA, a part of me did wonder if he was getting out of dodge before the shit hit the fan.
 
Dan U said:
When I read about James Murdoch getting a recent bump up News Corp and moving to the USA, a part of me did wonder if he was getting out of dodge before the shit hit the fan.
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Yeah, looks that way. Slightly cryptic article from Peter Preston about that. I'm not sure what he's trying to say, or if he's trying to say any more than that.
 
Hopefully Coulson and Brooks will be getting their respective collars felt soon. I think Cameron should be getting nervous due to his friendship with Brooks and the fact that he was aware of Rees before he became P.M.
 
in a car park somewhere, is there a mysterious man telling two hungry young guardian journalists to 'follow the money'?
 
ymu said:
Yeah, looks that way. Slightly cryptic article from Peter Preston about that. I'm not sure what he's trying to say, or if he's trying to say any more than that.
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I'd love to see the draft of this that went to the lawyers:

Well, for chattering media classes, the nightmare of phone hacking never abates. Scotland Yard's third try at a proper investigation seems like the full Monty at last. More and more names enter the frame week by week. MPs on influential select committees scent much blood to come.

Could James, who, after all, signed the big cheques that settled some hacking suits, be wounded in this battle himself? Is New York a safety zone out of the line of fire?
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Naughty boy:

A Guardian investigation has found that all four leading mobile phone companies dispute evidence that Yates has given to a select committee about police efforts to warn public figures whose voicemails were intercepted by the News of the World.

During the original police inquiry in 2006 phone companies identified a total of at least 120 politicians, police officers, members of the royal household and others whose voicemail had been accessed by Glenn Mulcaire, the NoW's private investigator. Yates told the home affairs select committee last September that police had "ensured" the phone companies warned all of their suspected victims. But all four companies have told the Guardian police made no such move and that most of the victims were never warned by them.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/07/phone-hacking-john-yates-evidence
 
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