Andy Coulson, the Met Police and Murdoch

[past caring]

Coulson lives only a couple of streets away - a cycle past every morning on the way to work and it's been quite funny seeing the boot on the other foot with the scrum of journalists, photographers and TV crews outside the place.

The missus, ever sympathetic and keen to ensure the welfare of our neighbours, went round to pop a note through the door last night.

Hope you and your family are enjoying all the attention. Wonder what the missus thinks about the merits of a privacy law now, eh? Or are you sleeping on the couch still?

 

[krtek a houby]

What's the Express leading on? Salt and health nazis. Nice one.

I did a double take when I saw it this morning. Very telling, their silence.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Mail & Express will be next in line.....they're probaby doing some of this

 

[laptop]

The Yard has shown as strange a reluctance as successive prime ministers on four continents to cross News International's shadowy Australian Mr Big, the Ernst Blofeld of global media, whose white Persian cat, Sheila, is said to drink the blood of Sun readers' children. Mr Big would have to be caught personally hacking the Pope's voice mail ("It's God here, Benny, please ring me back") before being in trouble.

Michael White

 

[laptop]

It would, of course, be a terrible irony if it turned out that the NotW's activities rendered unsafe the convictions of child-murderers such as Ian Huntley, or the lesser-known uncle of Danielle Jones, wouldn't it?

 

[laptop]

FWIW, 38degrees petition: 70k signatures so far, aiming for 100k today:

Dear David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt,

We're standing up for higher media standards, and respect for the rule of law.

We demand a stop to the BSkyB takeover, and a full public inquiry into the Murdoch empire's phone hacking activities.


We can't trust Murdoch's “promises” about respecting UK democracy and media plurality if he takes over BSkyB, while his newspapers stand accused of immoral and criminal activities.
These allegations prove we need a full inquiry into phone hacking and whether Murdoch is a fit and proper media owner - not another Murdoch media power grab.

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/murdoch-deal-petition#petition

 

[Barking_Mad]

Servers removed from NoTW Head Offices?

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Some investigation.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Tweet following Morrisons decision not to pull advertising:

Hacking murdered girls and terrorists victims families phones is brought to you by #NOTW, sponsored by #Morrisons

 

[dennisr]

Tweet following Morrisons decision not to pull advertising:

The will be a special 2(00)-1 offer on advertising rates at the moment - how else are they able to keep their prices so low at the till

 

[marty21]

Coulson testified at Tommy Sheridan's trial didn't he, pretty sure he stated then, under oath, that he was not aware of any hacking - is he now saying he was aware, and if so, is that not grounds for perjury? and if it is perjury, what does that mean for the Sheridan verdict?

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Coulson testified at Tommy Sheridan's trial didn't he, pretty sure he stated then, under oath, that he was not aware of any hacking - is he now saying he was aware, and if so, is that not grounds for perjury? and if it is perjury, what does that mean for the Sheridan verdict?

Really? Tommy the Sheridan may be a total oaf, in my opnion, but if he's been turned over in such a way, let's hope he gets full redress through the legal system.

 

[agricola]

Coulson testified at Tommy Sheridan's trial didn't he, pretty sure he stated then, under oath, that he was not aware of any hacking - is he now saying he was aware, and if so, is that not grounds for perjury? and if it is perjury, what does that mean for the Sheridan verdict?

Sheridan gets off, Coulson goes to prison.

 

[Gingerman]

Sheridan gets off, Coulson goes to prison.

That would be very

 

[marty21]

http://www.scotsman.com/news/Tommy-Sheridan-39might-not-have.6795925.jp

press are talking about this - Labour MP Tom Watson has mentioned it - he is having a stormer at the moment.

 

[laptop]

The will be a special 2(00)-1 offer on advertising rates at the moment - how else are they able to keep their prices so low at the till

Should we club together and buy one?

 

[Streathamite]

Better & better...

Channel 4 News has made claims about how the News of the World placed senior police detective under surveillance at a time he was investigating the murder of a private eye with links to individuals who worked for the paper.

...It said a Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook, a senior police officer who appeared on Crimewatch, claimed he was told by colleagues that he was under surveillance by News of the World in 2002.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog...g-live-updates

jesus, the Danny Morgan affair coming up again!

 

[Fedayn]

Coulson testified at Tommy Sheridan's trial didn't he, pretty sure he stated then, under oath, that he was not aware of any hacking - is he now saying he was aware, and if so, is that not grounds for perjury? and if it is perjury, what does that mean for the Sheridan verdict?

Could mrean a whole load of things but it certainly means, if the claims and e-mails News Int. have given up that he committed perjury and deserves the jail if so. The point is however that Coulson was a defence witness not part of the prosecutions case. Which certainly makes for interesting deliberations.

 

[teqniq]

They're all in it up to the eyeballs, the press, politicians and Police. Its no wonder the first enquirey was cut short as it was in everyones interest for that to happen....

Precisely. Which is also why, in part I've found some of the reporting concerning the latest revelations laughable inasmuch as one or two people on R4 have kept insisting that there wasn't the 'momentum' or the 'will' to do anything much about it previously as the public were perceived as being at best ambivalent as most of the victims were celebs or MP's. Whilst this may to some degree be true I imagine the 'They're all in it up to the eyeballs' hasn't helped a great deal.

 

[Barking_Mad]

 

[teqniq]

from the guardian ticker:

LATEST: Scotland Yard tonight told George Osborne that his name and home phone number appeared on notes kept by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and former News of the World reporter Clive Goodman. More soon ...

I was thinking deckchair and popcorn the other day but perhaps knitting would be more appropriate....

 

[ymu]

I have juice and snacks and am bedded in for the night.

 

[laptop]

from the guardian ticker:

LATEST: Scotland Yard tonight told George Osborne that his name and home phone number appeared on notes kept by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and former News of the World reporter Clive Goodman. More soon ...

Now that is what I call attacking your own

Wonder what messages Bernanke left from the Fed? Hey! An insider trading scandal as well!

 

[Barking_Mad]

Report that they had the phone numbers of families of uk servicemen who died in Iraq

 

[Barking_Mad]

Above is a Telegraph report

 

[laptop]

Oh boy. The story that keeps on giving. Now we have a NotW reporter acting to pervert the course of justice in favour of a murder suspect - it's the Daniel Morgan case again:

Brooks was summoned to a meeting at Scotland Yard where she was told that one of her most senior journalists, Alex Marunchak, had apparently agreed to use photographers and vans leased to the paper to run surveillance on behalf of Jonathan Rees and Sid Fillery, two private investigators who were suspected of murdering their former partner, Daniel Morgan. The Yard saw this as a possible attempt to pervert the course of justice.

Brooks was also told of evidence that Marunchak had a corrupt relationship with Rees, who had been earning up to £150,000 a year selling confidential data to the News of the World. Police told her that a former employee of Rees had given them a statement alleging that some of these payments were diverted to Marunchak, who had been able to pay off his credit card and pay his child's private school fees.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/news-of-the-world-rebekah-brooks

Paperwork in the possession of the Yard's Operation Weeting is believed to show that Mulcaire [got details of Detective Chief Superintendent David Cook] on the instructions of Greg Miskiw, the paper's assistant editor and a close friend of Marunchak.

Mmm. I smell a leak from the Yard to the Guardian, breaking ranks. Alternatively, and less interestingly, they've got unredacted papers off some of the lawyers acting for others whose phones were hacked.

 

[butchersapron]

Great thread - well started.

 

[Santino]

fuck all will happen, hardly any news org has picked this up in the UK, no surprise there

lol

 

[frogwoman]

 

[Santino]

This thread is like the cool early EPs to that other thread's best-selling album.

 

[TruXta]

Hipster thread.