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Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"

Tweet from Henry Kissinger:

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I've never known a more honest & decent man than Rupert Murdoch, including even President Nixon. It's time to stop this liberal witch hunt.
 
a tweet from tom watson:

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Robert @peston is being spoon fed the internal NI document handed over to the Met in chunks.They're spinning their bad news. It's not right.

he does seem to be well briefed
 
Bishie: Rupert's thrown cameron a bone by essentially volunteering to be refered to the competition commission (so one presumes there will be no vote for cameron to lose on wednesday)
Gordon brown has revealed his and his dead kid's records were hacked
George michael is kicking some arse.
 
Bishie: Rupert's thrown cameron a bone by essentially volunteering to be refered to the competition commission (so one presumes there will be no vote for cameron to lose on wednesday)
Gordon brown has revealed his and his dead kid's records were hacked
George michael is kicking some arse.

I knew George had it in him!
 
a tweet from tom watson:
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Robert @peston is being spoon fed the internal NI document handed over to the Met in chunks.They're spinning their bad news. It's not right.
he does seem to be well briefed
The point's been made already here - the Met is drip-feeding disclosure in order to focus the attention on Murdoch and to maintain the pressure.

It's wrong, but at least now the 'good' cops are leaking to the 'good' journalists.... ish.
 
The point's been made already here - the Met is drip-feeding disclosure in order to focus the attention on Murdoch and to maintain the pressure.

It's wrong, but at least now the 'good' cops are leaking to the 'good' journalists.... ish.

Dunno if they'd want to do that. It would be giving their suspects advance warning. Given the damage already caused to the met, I don't sense they are up for inviting loads more at this point.
 
The way the Met are doing it is to 'notify' people they were on Mulcaire's list slowly over time. Then, like Gordon Brown, some/many those people choose to go public.
 
When i went down to buy the local papers today the murdoch papers were covering the story and seemingly being quite critical of murdoch etc ...
 
The way the Met are doing it is to 'notify' people they were on Mulcaire's list slowly over time. Then, like Gordon Brown, some/many those people choose to go public.

I think we're talking cross purposes.

I was referring to the stuff that the met is complaining about being leaked.
 
Well another interesting day on this story, with many more to come I am sure.

Murdoch's move to get the Sky takeover kicked into the long grass whilst he attempts to sort out the shit at the newspapers is a clever move, and in no way does a referral to the CC change anything regarding what OFCOM may or may not do, despite what some have posted, competition issues are totally different to 'fit & proper' issues concerning broadcast licences.

The EU has already ruled there's no competition issues, so he knows that the CC can only rule the same esp now he's closed the NOTW, reducing competition issues anyway.

Now he has lost the power of his press, it wouldn't surprise me if he attempts to off-load the newspapers, and even agree stronger safeguards concerning the independence of Sky News, just to secure the Sky deal in a year or so.

Gordon Brown crawling out of the stone he should have remained under is also an interesting turn - basically admitting he was a weak PM and shitting himself over the power of Murdoch at the time, so did fuck all about it when he should have done.

Most of this crap happened under Blair & Brown, and now we have Brown admitting he not only knew what was going on, but knew he was a victim - somewhat fucks Ed's attempts to pile most of the blame on the current government.
 
Well another interesting day on this story, with many more to come I am sure.

Murdoch's move to get the Sky takeover kicked into the long grass whilst he attempts to sort out the shit at the newspapers is a clever move, and in no way does a referral to the CC change anything regarding what OFCOM may or may not do, despite what some have posted, competition issues are totally different to 'fit & proper' issues concerning broadcast licences.

The EU has already ruled there's no competition issues, so he knows that the CC can only rule the same esp now he's closed the NOTW, reducing competition issues anyway.

Now he has lost the power of his press, it wouldn't surprise me if he attempts to off-load the newspapers, and even agree stronger safeguards concerning the independence of Sky News, just to secure the Sky deal in a year or so.

Gordon Brown crawling out of the stone he should have remained under is also an interesting turn - basically admitting he was a weak PM and shitting himself over the power of Murdoch at the time, so did fuck all about it when he should have done.

Most of this crap happened under Blair & Brown, and now we have Brown admitting he not only knew what was going on, but knew he was a victim - somewhat fucks Ed's attempts to pile most of the blame on the current government.

Ed is sitting pretty, Disco Dave hired Coulson, has cosy lunches with Brooks - Ed didn't and doesn't.
 
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