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

This is a masterclass in dodging blame. I doubt they can pin anything on him. Relying on passing the buck to his executives.
 
So he agreed to pay a large amount of damages on the advice of his lawyers who said NOTW would lose the case but didn't really ask why...mmmm...:hmm:!
 
watson is determined to have them. good stuff. radio 5 just said scotland yard had recieved millions of emails from news international! good luck to whoever is searching through them...
 
gabi said:
Watson fucked up right at the end there, calling him a mafia boss. Petty.
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imo Watson is overrated. Just because you loathe all Murdocks and the News of the World and believe they are "rotten to the core" is not on its own enough.
 
he had just landed what could be the killer blow and then makes a childish insult about the mafia. stupid imo.
 
I have no liking for politicians in general, Mensch however is in a category all of her own.I think if I got close enough a life sentence would be worth it.
 
Are they actually going to be able to pin anything on him? Can't watch live but reading the Guardian and BBC text feeds it seems like it's a lot of stuff he can claim he didn't know about, it happened without his knowledge, he was as shocked as everyone else, etc...

All seems a bit of a dance around a lot of smoke.
 
gabi said:
it's all hearsay basically. he's off the legal hook again.
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Well, exactly.

Have the Murdochs been canny enough to ensure there's no paper trail, or have they just been lucky it hasn't been found yet. So far there's a lot going on underneath them but they're still able to claim plausible deniability.

Well, deniability, anyway...
 
And the lawyers hit back:

A former News International lawyer has accused company chairman James Murdoch of giving "disingenuous" evidence to the Commons media committee.

Mr Murdoch repeatedly told MPs he had not been made aware of details suggesting phone hacking at the News of the World went beyond a lone reporter.

But Tom Crone said Mr Murdoch was told in 2008 about a "damning email".
He was also made aware of what that meant in terms of the paper's wider involvement in hacking, Mr Crone added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15685350
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They're lawyers, James. They remain expensive lawyers, and probably not stupid. Do you know how much they cost when they were your lawyers?

Accusing expensive lawyers of lying will be as expensive as a very expensive thing, James :)
 
Orang Utan said:
nah, he was spot on. NI is a criminal cartel.
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But in the dramatisations you kind of want the upcoming boss, be it Michael, Tony or whoever, to succeed as an antihero. I don't think the same can be said of James, and Rupert is several levels of evil above Vito or Uncle Junior.
 
The News Of The World got caught hacking into Milly Dowler's mobile phone, as well as dead soldiers' families phones and, even more shockingly, famous peoples' too. There was a mighty storm about it, which resulted in the NOTW being shut down and Rupert and James Murdoch being hauled in for questioning by a House Of Commons Select Committee. Shit is still going down.
 
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