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

[two sheds]

From the BBC and probably not far wrong:

Lawyer David Corker, who advised the sons of the late Daily Mirror owner Robert Maxwell's when they appeared before a parliamentary committee in 1992, after being issued with a summons, tells the BBC that the Murdochs will be told by their legal team to say very little.

But, surely, if they've done nothing wrong then they've nothing to hide ...

 

[claphamboy]

Claphamboy is spot on. Another twist is the relatively recent dirty business involving ITV Digital, the old OnDigital terrestrial set top boxes being hacked with simple EPROM card configurations after a piece of software allowing cards to be reprogrammed to give unlimited movies & porn emerged.

Allegedly the system was cracked in a laboratory in Haifa, Israel belonging to one R. Murdoch.

ITV Digital service died on it's arse as a result of nobody paying for premium services on account of everyone having dodgy set-top cards...

I hadn't heard that one before.

That's particularly interesting because Murdoch tracked down Chris Carey, former Radio Caroline DJ from the 70s that went on to launch the highly successful super-pirate called Radio Nova in Dublin during the 80s, which after it's closure ironically re-launched on the Astra satellite system, in Australia & had him arrested, bought back to the UK tried & imprisoned for the offence for selling pirate Sky cards from Ireland!

 

[invisibleplanet]

I'd feel dirty watching it on Sky.

12pm HoC Home Affairs Committee - Grimond Room
Unauthorised tapping into or hacking of mobile communications
Witnesses
Sir Paul Stephenson, Commissioner, Metropolitan Police
Dick Fedorcio OBE, Director of Public Affairs and Internal Communication, Metropolitan Police
Assistant Commissioner John Yates, Specialist Operations, Metropolitan Police
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=8917

2.30pm - HoC Culture, Media and Sport Committee - Wilson Room
Phone-hacking
Witnesses
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation, and James Murdoch, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, International News Corporation
Rebekah Brooks, former Chief Executive Officer, News International Ltd
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=8910


Today is also the Final Evidence Session on PUBLIC HEALTH (Live @10:45 http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=8909)
http://www.parliament.uk/business/c...lth-committee/news/11-07-15-publichealth-ev5/

 

[Kaka Tim]

I'm not expecting much from the Murdoch 'grilling' - stone walling from the terrible trio and MPs grandstanding.

Best we can hope for is James Murdoch losing it - (he has form).

Still - good to see the nasty shits humiliated.

 

[Badgers]

Guardian:

Speculation that Rupert Murdoch could be replaced as chief executive of News Corporation have sent shares in the company rallying in Australia on Tuesday, bouncing back from a two-year low.

 

[butchersapron]

I hope the falangist Jose María Aznar gets the job if he has to step down.

 

[pk]

I'm not expecting much from the Murdoch 'grilling' - stone walling from the terrible trio and MPs grandstanding.

Best we can hope for is James Murdoch losing it

It seems News Corp shareholders will be deciding the fate of James Murdoch with regard to any future management position held based upon his performance today.

i.e. one fuck-up and he's toast.

 

[Barking_Mad]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blo...ng-rupert-murdoch-rebekah-brooks-mps#block-10

Chris Bryant, the Labour MP who has been campaigning on phone hacking for ages, has just dropped an intriguing hint about "more to come" in an interview on BBC News.

The theatre of [today's appearance] is irrelevant. In the end we've got to get to the bottom of what is a very murky pool. And I tell you Rebekah Brooks was right. We're only half way into that pool at the moment. There's stuff about Surrey police as well and other things that are still to come out.

When pressed, Bryant refused to say any more.

 

[Gingerman]

Best we can hope for is James Murdoch losing it - (he has form).

.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01472/james-murdoch_1472522c.jpg
Murdoch's spawn losing it,hope he behaves like this today,all shouty and finger pointing and looking like a loon

 

[Schmetterling]

Deleted because of idiocracy on behalf of the poster after having used one's reading skills!

 

[cybertect]

Deleted because of idiocracy on behalf of the poster after having used one's reading skills!

See invisibleplanet's post just above.

e2a: Reply now redundant

 

[ViolentPanda]

Who was after Dacre?



Does anyone read any links on here?

I do.

Not sure I believe about Dacre "confronting Brooks, tbh. He has a long history of bottling confrontation unless he's got his goons (deputies) with him.

 

[DrRingDing]

I'm not expecting much from the Murdoch 'grilling' - stone walling from the terrible trio and MPs grandstanding.

Best we can hope for is James Murdoch losing it - (he has form).

Still - good to see the nasty shits humiliated.

Indeed, I think we can expect them just to keep on message and reiterate the same few points to whatever questions are asked.

Fuck all will come of today.

 

[DrRingDing]

The very large image on the front page of The Times is proper dirty.

"Look he's smoking thus was always going to die early"

 

[Teaboy]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blo...ng-rupert-murdoch-rebekah-brooks-mps#block-10

I saw this interview.

He basically said there is a lot more which I know but I'm not going to say because I can't prove 100% and NI would sue me. He made a point of mentioning the importance of parliamentary priviledge which implies he expects the commitee to raise it this afternoon. So that could be very interesting even if we get the expected 'no comment' from the Murdochs and Brooks.

 

[Santino]

I think the main danger for the Murdochs today would be to be confronted by fresh allegations for which they don't have a defence. If they deny knowledge of something that then turns out to be real, their whole narrative of cleaning house after a period of 'poor decisions' would come apart.

 

[butchersapron]

I think the main danger for the Murdochs today would be to be confronted by fresh allegations for which they don't have a defence. If they deny knowledge of something that then turns out to be real, their whole narrative of cleaning house after a period of 'poor decisions' would come apart.

Spot on. The known stuff is all prepared for. If Bryant is right (link above) i expect Watson has the same info, and Watson will use it at some point.

 

[T & P]

Anyone else looking forward to the new issue of Private Eye tomorrow?

 

[ViolentPanda]

those who are further away from the idealised norm body type (this, it should be noted, is deeply gendered) are lesser moral beings.

I knew there was a reason for my lack of morality and moral fibre!!

 

[Santino]

I knew there was a reason for my lack of morality and moral fibre!!

You can get moral fibre by eating moral all-bran, moral brown rice and even moral potatoes.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It is really hard to call...

The bag found near Brooks flat is an odd one. Possibly a non-story but equally could be a big thing. Sounds so suspect how a bag containing a laptop was found in a bin? Planted by someone or just an unusual chain of events?

Why would Mr. Brooks try to retrieve the bag if it was planted?

 

[Badgers]

Why would Mr. Brooks try to retrieve the bag if it was planted?

I guess

 

[Santino]

Why would Mr. Brooks try to retrieve the bag if it was planted?

If someone texted him: "Bag you left for me not there! Saw security finding it and I ran off."

 

[Badgers]

Should have had a tenner on when it was 100/1

BBC:

Bookmakers William Hill are offering odds of 16/1 about "under pressure" PM David Cameron being out of office by the weekend.

 

[ViolentPanda]

If someone texted him: "Bag you left for me not there! Saw security finding it and I ran off."

Never took you as a wearer of Faraday cage flat caps.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

the solicitor for the dowlers seems to have been everywhere over the last week

i reckon that by the time they receive their payout from news international they'll have about a tenner left after legal costs are subtracted

 

[Santino]

Never took you as a wearer of Faraday cage flat caps.

Just playing Devil's Advocate, VP.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Grundian

Last night Labour MP Cathy Jamieson should have been elected unopposed to the DCMS Select Committee, replacing the recently deceased David Cairns ahead of today's showdown with Rebekah Brooks and the Murdochs. And yet Tory MP Nick De Bois decided to shout "object", which meant that Jamieson has yet to be elected to the committee, and won't be able to question the News International trio today.

Nick De Bois - Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/nickdebois

 

[Santino]

 

[Fedayn]

The met Director of Public Affairs Dick Fedioricio has also been referred to the IPCC.....