'my integrity is completely intact' he said as he resigned
'my integrity is completely intact' he said as he resigned
'my integrity is completely intact' he said as he resigned
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RT @jameschappers: BREAKING Sources tell me Sir Paul Stephenson is about to resign #hackgate
Stephenson was also to attend the Home Affairs Select Committee meeting on tuesday (diff one from brooks and murdochs) as well. Hmmm. Doesn't mean he's got out of it mind.
Yep. It's amazng how many of the right wing law and order types always seem to have an abundance of skeletons screaming to be released from their own closets.
Keith Vaz on BBC now saying he expects him to attend.
Secondly, once Mr Wallis’s name did become associated with Operation Weeting, I did not want to compromise the Prime Minister in any way by revealing or discussing a potential suspect who clearly had a close relationship with Mr Coulson. I am aware of the many political exchanges in relation to Mr Coulson’s previous employment - I believe it would have been extraordinarily clumsy of me to have exposed the Prime Minister, or by association the Home Secretary, to any accusation, however unfair, as a consequence of them being in possession of operational information in this regard.
Can't be long before Cameron goes...
From his statement - tell me that's not a dig:
i can't find the full statement, but on the bbc they were saying he'd also said something like 'unlike coulson, wallis had not resigned from news international' or suchlike. definitely some digs in there.
You see it in Berlusconi's Italy vividly: media barons, spooks/secret police organisations, the spookier end of the regular cops (where several of the cops in this case seem to have come from) and right-wing politicians all colluding around dirty money, dirty secrets and the corrupt possibilities of unchecked, unaccountable power.
I never expected to see that particular rock get turned over in the UK though ...
Geoffrey Robinson QC on BBC News: "We have the stupidest police in the developed world". It's a fair cop, guv.
So, about that £12,000 of *hospitality* from Neil Wallis, Commissioner: How do you define 'intact integrity'?
Well, that's nice. He and his wife have got even longer to enjoy it now.london_calling: If you mean the Champney's stuff, I think he said he was very pleased with it