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

[treelover]

yes, an open goal and he attacks not the powerful but the weakest...

Apparently, labour are determined to leapfrog the Tories on welfare, they heard bad things about 'scroungers' on the doorstep, you see...

 

[marty21]

Have you been out of the country for most of this year?

 

[Divisive Cotton]

12.31pm: Another Guardian colleague tells me that he has heard from a source who is normally reliable that John Yates will resign later today. I'm sorry I can't tell you any more. This is not confirmation that he will definitely go, but - knowing a bit more about where this is coming from than I'm in a position to disclose - I'm taking it very seriously.

 

[gabi]

i think what he means is that the lib dems are utterly finished as a party

 

[butchersapron]

Brooks is now accusing the met of arresting her to turn the heat off them. (or they've both come up with some bullshit like this as a joint strategy).

 

[Badgers]

From the BBC updates:

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott says Assistant Commissioner John Yates must resign. "That man's feet shouldn't touch the ground."
Lord Prescott says Mr Yates misled him and other MPs and "does not have the right or morality to remain in that job".

Prescott is not mincing his words on this is he.

 

[butchersapron]

Brook's lawyer

"The position of Rebekah Brooks can be simply stated. She is not guilty of any criminal offence. The position of the Metropolitan Police is less easy to understand. Despite arresting her yesterday and conducting an interview process lasting 9 hours, they put no allegations to her, and showed her no documents connecting her with any crime. They will in due course have to give an account of their actions, and in particular their decision to arrest her, with the enormous reputational damage that this has involved.


In the meantime, Mrs Brooks has an appointment with the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee tomorrow. She remains willing to attend and to answer questions. It is a matter for Parliament to decide what issues to put to her and whether her appointment should place at a later date."

 

[Kaka Tim]

I like the phrase 'reputational damage' - who are they kidding?

 

[Balbi]

Yes, because her reputation was sparkling before the rozzers collared her

I reckon Prescott's trying to get himself clear of the inevitable New Labour clusterfuck that's going to happen when relationships between former ministers and N.I/

 

[killer b]

are they showing tomorrow's grilling on telly in full does anyone know?

 

[teqniq]

yes, an open goal and he attacks not the powerful but the weakest...

Apparently, labour are determined to leapfrog the Tories on welfare, they heard bad things about 'scroungers' on the doorstep, you see...

And there was me thinking, what an ideal opportunity to go after corporate tax avoidance. Silly me.

 

[Badgers]

are they showing tomorrow's grilling on telly in full does anyone know?

Something we can all enjoy

 

[gabi]

my schadenfreude levels are already maxed. i might explode if i watch that shit.

 

[killer b]

Something we can all enjoy

i was considering persuading a pub-owning friend to show it on his big screen...

 

[two sheds]

Hopefully all this means that all the throwaway lines that appear about in Private Eye about shady deals done during free lunches will become potential headlines in the other papers. Tax deals done with Vodafone for example, or Goldman Sachs ....

Eye readers will recall that late last year HMRC tax boss Dave Hartnett unlawfully let Goldman Sachs off a £20m interest bill on an offshore tax avoidance scheme for its bankers’ bonuses.

The agreement came soon after Hartnett had dined with the “great vampire squid” of international capitalism. And in March this year, Labour treasury select committee member Chuka Umunna raised the deal, asking the innocuous question “whether the internal [HMRC] procedures were met in relation to the Goldman’s settlement”. Now the MP has received an answer, or rather the claim from HMRC that it “cannot give any information, for reasons of taxpayer confidentiality”.

This non-reply doesn’t stack up. Last year HMRC chief executive Dame Lesley Strathie was able to tell a parliamentary committee – inaccurately – that “the proper processes took place here” in relation to the dodgy Vodafone deal. No taxpayer confidentiality worries there.

.. that would be nice .

 

[Badgers]

i was considering persuading a pub-owning friend to show it on his big screen...

What time will it be?
I might do a little sex wee

 

[killer b]

What time will it be?
I might do a little sex wee

murdochs at 2.30, brooks at 3.30

 

[butchersapron]

Brooks' lawyers previous:

Selected matters in which Stephen has acted:
Advised the Prime Minster, Tony Blair, and all the No 10 and Cabinet Office witnesses in the Hutton Inquiry
Advised former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major and former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine in the BSE Inquiry
Advised a key witness in the Iraq Inquiry
Represented developer, in a judicial review challenge to the report of Sir Robin Auld's Commission of Inquiry in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Represented Sir Ian Blair and other officers in the IPCC investigations arising out of the shooting of the Jean Charles de Menezes
Represented Sir Ian Blair in the Flanagan investigation for the MPA.
Part of team representing soldiers in the Baha Mousa public inquiry.
Represented clients in the loans-for-peerages investigation.
Represented clients in the BAE/ Saudi corruption investigation.

( From David Allen Green)

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I wonder if those who were guilty of hacking mobile phones, are at the moment hacking again so as to find out just how much evidence there is against them, and what people are saying.

Miliband and the PLP are really wasting an opportunity to attack here. They should be drawing up alternative Labour policies to the ones the now have. They need to put some 'red water' - even if it be blood coloured, between Labour and the Tories and between the old Blairite NewLabour and what should be an alternative. It won't happen though. So the biggest cracks in the Establishment, the Media the Tories, the Police to occur for a lifetime will be enabled to be patched up so that Business As Usual can return. Where is our revolution?

 

[gosub]

was in Dublin for the weekend, so only had an Irish edition of the SUnday Times to see how NI are firefighting: was quite entertaining: a couple of foot on how much of a cunt Brown is, a couple of foot on the American media breaking there own standards on spreading the 9/11 bit due to it coming from an unattributed source and about a yard on the need for loose media regulation and blagging. Most useful bit though was in the busniess section NI BOARD MEETING 28th JULY. UK papers make up 5% of their asset base and the scandal has wiped more off the price than that

 

[Divisive Cotton]

and see she is using PR company Bell Pottinger

 

[Pickman's model]

are they showing tomorrow's grilling on telly in full does anyone know?

probably on bbc parliament and bbc news

 

[laptop]

Prescott is not mincing his words on this is he.

Stir-frying, as always, but not mincing

 

[Streathamite]

what bollocks. so he can stand there preaching about family values whilst doing the exact opposite, what about someone who preaches hellfire and brimstone on lgbt folk whilst secretly loving the cock themselves, or MPs expenses, or even the man ultimately in charge of jailing sex workers whilst picking them up on the street (as in the case of the DPP bloke)

if we have to put up with being ruled by cunts the very least we should expect is to be able to hold them to account on the way they live and expose their hypocrisy



it happens to people everyday, it can be every thing from a bit embarrassing to family destroying

but, most people when they do something they want to keep secret make a decision, and ultimately if they really dont want friends.colleagues/their partner to know then they dont fucking do it or are very careful

what they dont do is go running to lawyers if they get caught, as i said before, its the individuals responsibility to keep their own secrets, not the responsibility of anyone who happens to find out

You do realise that what you are saying is that NO-ONE in any position of authority or public prominence has a right to a private life, or any privacy whatsoever?
Do you really think that's sensible or even workable?

 

[Kanda]

I wonder if those who were guilty of hacking mobile phones, are at the moment hacking again so as to find out just how much evidence there is against them, and what people are saying.

It's not really phone hacking. It's illicit access to voicemail messages. Wish they'd stop calling it fucking phone hacking!

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/08/how-phone-hacking-worked/

 

[rhod]

once the jailings begin here and the whistleblowers start whistling, it'll be game over. People formally employed by Fox will be eager to tell their stories once the threats from the Murdoch mafia become toothless.

Fmr. Fox News Executive: Americans' Phones Were Hacked

Deep in the bowels of 1211 Avenue of the Americas, News Corporation’s New York headquarters, was what Roger called the Brain Room. Most people thought it was simply the research department of Fox News. But unlike virtually everybody else, because I had to design and build the Brain Room, I knew it also housed a counterintelligence and black ops office. So accessing phone records was easy pie.

 

[two sheds]

Brooks is now accusing the met of arresting her to turn the heat off them.

Goodoh

 

[laptop]

Fmr. Fox News Executive: Americans' Phones Were Hacked

Good lord... the actual New York magazine article is on my to-read list, as a profile of Roger Ailes, creator of Fux News and tipped by some to succeed James Murdoch...

 

[Ted Striker]

i think what he means is that the lib dems are utterly finished as a party

I too thought that a few weeks back, though dignified and vocal rebuttals, including reminders they took such a stance years ago AND comfort that they've never had the opportunity to be any use to NI (lol), may just be the thing that saves them.

 

[WWWeed]

Stir-frying, as always, but not mincing

and that's from a man who I am sure knows about mice meat

Fmr. Fox News Executive: Americans' Phones Were Hacked

I don't think anyone is surprised. It seems to be standard practice at NI/NC firms.

This must be what brooks meant by 'in a years time you will see why we did this'. I wonder what else is still to come out?