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

[two sheds]

Yes, I wonder whether any of the hackers were involved with buying and selling of stock. Oh please please pretty please let Morgan have been involved.

 

[stavros]

He was editor of the Mirror when James Hipwell did his stock tipping and bought a lot of shares in the companies involved.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Gordon Brown's Downing Street emails 'hacked'...Computer crime by press may be as widespread as phone scandal

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gordon-browns-downing-street-emails-hacked-6283985.html

Surely this sort of thing is a crime against the democratic process. Not that anything will happen but you'd think illegally accessing the Chancellor's communications would be covered by something like treason? Perhaps all this could end in some good beheadings after all.

It's quite disturbing when you consider the Murdoch press as a huge, politicised blackmail racket, which I believe is the best way to understand its function in our society over the years.

We already knew this blackmail racket was being run in collusion with the cops but now we see that it was also apparently being run with the connivance of the security services.

Either that or they were too busy shagging/spying on harmless eco-hippies to do an elementary aspect of their fucking jobs ... i.e. preventing espionage against the most senior ministers of the government.

 

[teqniq]

'quite disturbing' lol.

disgusting more like.

 

[stavros]

Anyone watch Hacks on C4 the other night? By a Drop the Dead Donkey writer and with a lot of the stylings of The Thick Of It, it had the tongue-in-cheak caveat at the end that "any resemblance to real life characters is purely coincidence".

 

[butchersapron]

47 year old woman arrested in essex in connection with phone hacking

 

[butchersapron]

Cheryl Carter. No idea.

 

[London_Calling]

'Executive Assistant at News International', "Rebekah Wade's long-standing secretary....."

8 August 2003

Rebekah Wade's long-standing secretary Cheryl Carter is to write a column for the Sun's Woman pages from November.

Ms Carter, who has remained by Wade's side as she progressed from deputy editor of the Sun to editor of News of the World before becoming Sun editor in January, is expected to write a beauty column.

She already writes an advice column for the News of the World's Sunday magazine called Ask Cheryl, answering practical questions ranging from what to do if you lose your driving documents to how to remember a baby's early years.

.. and what to do if you want a front page story and a phone handy.

 

[butchersapron]

Brooks PA basically.

 

[butchersapron]

Being questioned over deletion of NI emails.

edit: and - the by now usual - suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

 

[Ted Striker]

Computer hacking is the dark horse in all of this; not as media-friendly but far more significant.

Can you imagine the market sensitive information on the Chancellor's computers - unbelievable.

I'm calling boIIocks on this one. Gordon snatching facepalm from the jaws of epicness, or something.

a) If you had a direct link to GB's PC, you wouldn't have to sniff around for details of his sick kid and/or the bigotted woman would not have been the worst story against him
b) Doing Hugh Grants voicemail is one thing, but hacking the chancellors laptop is a whole different ballgame to convince a private eye to do.
c) If it was so easy, there's other parties (spies, basically) who would be doing this all day long.

 

[London_Calling]

I'm calling boIIocks on this one..

Then you'd be wrong. To quote Smooth Lester Cool: "She's got legs". At least that's wot many closer to events than most of us believe.

 

[agricola]

Then you'd be wrong. To quote Smooth Lester Cool: "She's got legs". At least that's wot many closer to events than most of us believe.

Doubt it. In addition to what Ted Striker states above one shouldnt forget that GB's last "intervention" was shown to be bollocks, plus the identity of the others mentioned (Draper and Hain) shouldnt be grounds for anyone to automatically believe that this story is true.

 

[London_Calling]

Two things; invading the privacy via phone messages of victims of crime and celeb's is one thing, taking liberties with the state and individuals entire personal life (as per computer hard drives) another - and thinking you had complete immunity.

Second, we're into a different order of criminal offences, beginning with burglary and theft. We have no idea where that may go.

 

[Ted Striker]

If it wasn't GB's rep for fucking things up I'd get excited.

 

[London_Calling]

Well, it's a slow burner but I do think we can reasonably hope for both a large *boom* and some busts.

 

[London_Calling]

From this morning: 10.27am: Kelvin MacKenzie has taken the witness stand...

Couldn't happen to a nicer fellar. Fwiw, I can see that anything of import came up during his 'evidence'.

 

[stavros]

Couldn't happen to a nicer fellar.

They really do have an awesome parade of cunts, with McKenzie, Coulson, Brooks, Moron and Digger Junior and Senior. But which is the most cuntish? Only one way to find out....

 

[teqniq]

A former Scotland Yard officer has been arrested by the Independent Police Complaints Commission over allegations of unauthorised leaks to a journalist.

DCS Dave Cook, 52, is being questioned on suspicion of misconduct in a public office after being detained at his Berkshire home on Tuesday morning.

He was arrested after the IPCC was passed information in mid-December by Metropolitan police detectives working on Operation Elveden, which is investigating alleged payments to police officers by newspapers Investigators working for the police watchdog have powers of arrest when carrying out an independent investigation. It is not clear why the Met did not carry out the arrest and instead passed the inquiry on to the police watchdog. A spokesman for the Met would not comment.

Cook has complained he was a victim of the News of the World when he was followed during his investigation into the murder of Daniel Morgan. He now becomes a potential victim of one police inquiry - Weeting – and a suspect in another - Elveden....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/10/scotland-yard-officer-arrested

 

[DexterTCN]

The IPCC can arrest police? I was unaware of that, has it happened before?

Elizabeth Filkin, missed her involvement too.

 

[London_Calling]

The irony is Dave Cook may have been the only half-way decent copper to have investigated Morgan's murder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Morgan_(private_investigator)

 

[gabi]

Crackin day of the inquiry today. Ian Hislop at the moment. Very entertaining.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_8167000/8167512.stm

 

[Ted Striker]

Cheers for the reminder! (Takes my eyes off the cricket )

 

[gabi]

This is basically a weird episode of HIGNFY.

The lawyers appear to be slightly starstruck again.

 

[Badgers]

Crackin day of the inquiry today. Ian Hislop at the moment. Very entertaining.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_8167000/8167512.stm

He is doing okay I think

 

[gabi]

Rusbridger's gettin a very easy ride here

 

[ymu]

Suddenly, the establishment don't seem interested in protecting NGN. Awww, shucks.

During legal discussions on Thursday before a civil trial scheduled for 13 February, the company failed to convince Mr Justice Vos that the search of three laptops assigned to senior employees and six desktop computers was "disproportionate".

Dinah Rose QC, for NGN, said the search was unnecessary because there had been "no policy of deliberate destruction" at the paper.
But Vos said that if he had "acceded to [NGN] suggestions back in early 2011 that disclosure was not necessary because admissions had been made, the phone-hacking history might be very different".

...

Rose said so much had been disclosed and admitted by NGN that it was disproportionate to order the company to search the computers for further evidence. "There comes a point when we say we're three weeks away from trial and ... we can say enough is enough."

Her claim was robustly rebutted by Vos. "The day you can say 'that's enough' is the day I give judgment – although you can't even say it then because of the number of other cases waiting in the wings."

The trial, set to last three weeks, is intended to give guidance on damages for current and future lawsuits and out-of-court settlements in the five-year-old scandal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/19/judge-orders-search-news-world-computers

 

[scifisam]

Wait, he's complaining about laptops being searched? He's complaining about invasion of privacy?

 

[DexterTCN]

Suddenly, the establishment don't seem interested in protecting NGN. Awww, shucks.

Her claim was robustly rebutted by Vos. "The day you can say 'that's enough' is the day I give judgment – although you can't even say it then because of the number of other cases waiting in the wings."

lol...that's brilliant. I was going to say he should've finished with 'bitch' but considering the masterchef thread...best not.

 

[London_Calling]

In amongst the 37 who settles with NI today was Christopher Shipman, son of Harold. There's a story here:

Shipman was contacted by officers from Scotland Yard's Operation Weeting on 15 August last year and told they had evidence of the unlawful interception of his emails by the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire eight months after his father, Harold Shipman, killed himself in prison.

Tamsin Allen, solicitor for Shipman, told the court the NoW "had unlawfully obtained the confidential access details to [Shipman's] email accounts, including his password, and had accessed his inbox".

We understand how phone hacking worked/works, but this..... "unlawful interception" .....is an enormous can or worms

This represents another step down the accessing computers avenue because NI have now paid out on it:

Counsel for News Group Newspapers, the News International subsidiary that published the News of the World, offered its "sincere apologies" to Shipman for "the distress caused to him by the unlawful interception of his emails and obtaining his private and confidential information" and paid undisclosed damages.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/19/harold-shipman-son-now-email