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

[London_Calling]

Yep. Just a bit of prep for the witnesses. Plus, they'll be making contemporaneous notes, discussing and drafting ideas and thoughts as they go - there's a fucking mental scale Report to produce at the end of all this. There are on going submissions from representative of related parties, witness statements to trawl through, evidence arriving, police briefings about the state of their various inquiries… just shed loads.

If you look around the room, you get a sense of the size of the Secretariat attached to Leveson - and they all have a role.

 

[Wilf]

Jay is very impressive really given the amount he has to retain - and update in light of each day's further evidence. He also seems to be on stage for at least part of every session and knows there is a whole internet ready to dive in if he misses a trick. Will also be a lot going on offstage to stay clear of the police investigation.

 

[London_Calling]

If you go back a couple of hundred pages, there are a whole bunch of people on here who thought the idiots on the Select Committee did a very good job on Rupes and James, and were at least the match of suffed-shirt lawyers - basically the job had been done.

But yup, Jay is doing very well. Leveson himself lays on the theatrical gravitas-pause too much but it's also got him where he is, and he does get them thinking properly.

 

[killer b]

i don't think that's fair l_c. a lack of faith in judicial inquiries is hardly an unjustified position to take.

this has certainly exceeded my expectations so far, have to say. is it the first time something like this has been streamed live? if so, i wonder what effect that's had on the proceedings?

 

[London_Calling]

The point was peoples' belief in the skill and ability of the Select Committee. Lawyers they're not, self-agrandising, grandstanding out-of-their-depth and clueless they mostly were.

 

[Balbi]

From today's stuff, Brown, if not his wife, is coming out of this in the best light.

History could treat Brown more kindly than his predecessor or successor.

 

[London_Calling]

Not unless it's written by a psycopath.

 

[Balbi]

I disagree - Blair started with a fresh deck, and slowly ripped his cards up. Brown jockeyed for the job for years, took it on with a tired government, made the right choices when Lehmanns went down and was binned off for personal flaws. Cameron, well - fuck

 

[killer b]

The point was peoples' belief in the skill and ability of the Select Committee. Lawyers they're not, self-agrandising, grandstanding out-of-their-depth and clueless they mostly were.

whatever. i think any comments in favour of the select committee before the inquiry kicked off have to be seen in the context of the the inquiry being the whitewash most of us expected. it hasn't worked out that way so far. good.

 

[ymu]

http://sturdyblog.wordpress.com/

Tom Watson has picked it up and written to Jeremy Heywood:

Tricky: The PM has breached the ministerial code.

 

[agricola]

just found next week's witness list:

• Monday: Alastair Campbell, Lord O'Donnell
• Tuesday: Adam Boulton, Lord Wakeham
• Wednesday: Jack Straw MP
• Thursday: Sir Harold Evans, Peter Osborne
• Friday - Non Sitting Day

All Timings 10:00 - 16:30
http:/ /www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Witness-List-14-17-May-20121.pdf

Its actually Peter Oborne, so at least his bit of Thursday might be quite entertaining.

 

[8115]

Bit late to this, did Cameron habitually end his texts with LOL? And why didn't Brookes text him back and tell him what it means? I bet Cameron texts like a grandparent, holding the phone at arms lengths and texting with both thumbs looking confused. What a cunt.

 

[DexterTCN]

Tom Watson has picked it up and written to Jeremy Heywood:

Tricky: The PM has breached the ministerial code.

While it is certainly not possible for Downing Street to detail everyone Mr Cameron meets at an event, The Telegraph makes the astonishing allegation that the pair (Dave and Coulson, added by dex) texted each other on their mobile phones to ensure they were not spotted together, and that the release of photographs of this encounter have since been suppressed at Mr Cameron’s request.

If proved, that's fatal, isn't it?

 

[Wilf]

If proved, that's fatal, isn't it?

Memory failing me (even from this afternoon), but didn't get Brooks get asked that, but never get round to answering due to some hamfisted intervention by leveson?

Edit: even more befuddled than I thought, I mean didn't coulson get asked that yesterday (and not answer).

 

[DexterTCN]

I don't think Coulson answered much at all. It was easily his best performance, Jay being entirely hamstrung by the charges against him a major contributor it would be reasonable to assume.

The whole 'charges' thing is turning out to be a double-edged sword, entertainment-wise.

 

[agricola]

If proved, that's fatal, isn't it?

It wont be. At least one of those disappeared meetings they will be able to argue was an innocent mistake (they did publish it, just not in the "new" list), and with regards to Brooks Cameron will always be able to make the argument that they are neighbours. As for breaching the minsterial code, the section that Watson cites did come in after both of these incidents, I would be amazed if it is retrospective.

 

[DexterTCN]

It's a pretty big straw for that particular camel's back.

 

[spikey_r]

Its actually Peter Oborne, so at least his bit of Thursday might be quite entertaining.

my mistake

 

[Badgers]

http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2012/05/tricky-the-pm-has-breached-the-ministerial-code

Letter from Tom Watson..

 

[Gingerman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18062485

 

[yardbird]

Perverting the course of justice -
Maximum of Life more likely 4 years if guilty

 

[Wilf]

Grauniad suggests several of the others potentially charged are her underlings - driver, head of security, PA + husband - suggests that if they get charged, she has to. I'm not expecting much, to be honest, she sounded fairly confident last week. Even if it was a different enquiry you'd think she'd have been shitting bricks if porridge awaited.

 

[yardbird]

Rebecacacah and Charlie ARE going to be charged with Perverting the Course of justice!!!

 

[Lock&Light]

Both Brooks to be charged with perverting, the BBC has said.

 

[weltweit]

So, it was the laptop computer wot done it ....

 

[DexterTCN]

Amazingly. awesomely wonderful.

 

[claphamboy]

Would it be rude to snigger at this point?

 

[claphamboy]

Fuck it!

 

[DexterTCN]

3 charges of conspiracy to pervert.

 

[yardbird]

It is or will soon become sub and we've all been warned.
She's been charged with three counts of perversion.