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

[butchersapron]

SalmonD?

Nope, still nothing.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Nope, still nothing.

It's at the top of the page in the summary! Where are you looking?!

 

[butchersapron]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/13/leveson-inquiry-nick-clegg-alex-salmond-live#block-98

Oh hang on, i'm looking at the hunt live-blog, not the leveson one

 

[Lord Camomile]

 

[belboid]

edit - not just me then

 

[Streathamite]

Not a peep about this on the guardians live blog.

top of page (rebutal) and short way down (accusation):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/13/leveson-inquiry-nick-clegg-alex-salmond-live

 

[belboid]

Is illegally accessing data not hacking then?

the PDF referred to was about all sorts, every instance of possible hacking AND blagging. Salmond seems to be talking about hacking, but even then, it isnt clear.

 

[DaveCinzano]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/13/leveson-inquiry-nick-clegg-alex-salmond-live#block-98

*COFF*

 

[gabi]

it's far more likely the journo went through his rubbish and found a receipt for this transaction that he's claiming is proof that his bank account was hacked. i mean how many people had internet banking in '99 anyway?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Back in 1999, was David Leigh still working at the Obbo?

it's far more likely the journo went through his rubbish and found a receipt for this transaction that he's claiming is proof that his bank account was hacked. i mean how many people had internet banking in '99 anyway?

Why are you assuming this is anything to do with telephone internet banking?

[Edited to actually make sense]

 

[gabi]

im not. im assuming hes talking about internet banking.

 

[Orang Utan]

the PDF referred to was about all sorts, every instance of possible hacking AND blagging. Salmond seems to be talking about hacking, but even then, it isnt clear.

Right you are

 

[Streathamite]

it shoulod be remembered Salmond was pro the BSkyB deal and is generally pro-NI

 

[Teaboy]

it shoulod be remembered Salmond was pro the BSkyB deal and is generally pro-NI

He's recieved pretty favourable press from them as I recall? Is (or will it) the Scottish Sun backing the 'Yes' vote?

 

[DaveCinzano]

im not. im assuming hes talking about internet banking.

Indeed - but why make that assumption? Previous scenarios outlined (the Gordon Brown one for example) have been about blagging over the phone.

 

[DaveCinzano]

it shoulod be remembered Salmond was pro the BSkyB deal and is generally pro-NI

In other news: Atlantic Ocean found to be full of water.

 

[Streathamite]

He's recieved pretty favourable press from them as I recall? Is (or will it) the Scottish Sun backing the 'Yes' vote?

unknown yet but they backed the SNP before

 

[DaveCinzano]

Jay asks about a change in the editorial line of the Scottish Sun in early 2011.

Salmond says he spoke to the new editor of the title, Andy Harris, twice after this.

The editorial position of the paper changed in March 2011 to support the SNP.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/13/leveson-inquiry-nick-clegg-alex-salmond-live#block-125

Cf:

Alex Salmond secretly offered to help Rupert Murdoch fight for the takeover of BSkyB by trading his political influence for the backing of the Sun newspaper, according to a batch of confidential emails from within News International which were disclosed on Tuesday by the Leveson inquiry.

The emails state that the first minister of Scotland volunteered to lobby two cabinet ministers in the UK government to support Murdoch's controversial takeover of BSkyB. They suggest that Salmond appeared to link that backing with winning the public support of the Sun, Scotland's largest daily paper, before elections for the Scottish parliament.

(David Leigh + Severin Carrell in the Guardian in April)

 

[gosub]

Murdoch who does all his printing in Scotland and is interested in Salmond's ideas of cheaper corporation tax

 

[danny la rouge]

Is (or will it) the Scottish Sun backing the 'Yes' vote?

Currently not pro independence, and I doubt it will become so. (Mind you, you can never tell with those people. None of it is to do with principles).

 

[danny la rouge]

unknown yet but they backed the SNP before

The Sun did briefly back independence, but not the SNP per se, surely?

btw, here's the Sun front cover in 2007.

 

[DaveCinzano]

14 June 2012 Last updated at 09:27
Operation Elveden: Three arrests in payments probe

Two men and a woman have been arrested by officers investigating alleged corrupt payments to public officials.
The arrests, made at about 0600 BST in Northamptonshire and Surrey, are part of Operation Elveden, which is running alongside a probe into phone hacking.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18437432

 

[DaveCinzano]

More from the Guardian:

Scotland Yard detectives investigating alleged illegal payments by journalists to police and other public officials have made three further arrests, including a former prison officer.

Officers from Operation Elveden, the Metropolitan police investigation into the alleged illegal payments, arrested two men and a woman at about 6am on Thursday morning in Corby and Croydon. This takes the total number of arrests by Operation Elveden to 33.
The former prison officer, a 40-year-old-man, was arrested at his home in Corby, Northamptonshire, on suspicion of corruption, misconduct in a public office and money laundering.

A 37-year-old woman was also arrested at home in Corby, on suspicion of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office and money laundering. Both are being questioned at a police station in Northamptonshire.

The third arrest on Thursday was of a 31-year-old man at his home in Croydon on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt and conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office.

..."Today's arrests are the result of information provided to police by News Corporation's Management Standards Committee. They relate to suspected payments to a public official and are not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately."

Will Lewis certainly knows how to make friends!

Dan Sabbagh is saying on of them's a Currant Bun scribbler:

Dan Sabbagh ‏@dansabbagh
Sun journalist one of those arrested this am in Eleveden inquiry.

 

[butchersapron]

Cameron contradicts Coulson - just what i was hoping for.

 

[Santino]

Details please. Not been able to follow it.

 

[butchersapron]

Coulson testified that Cameron hadn't spoke to him about any of this after a certain point (july 2009), Cameron says he did - Jay did say that no inferences should be drawn from this (at this point). That they're not on the same page over details like this is potentially telling though. (not following live myself either, but that seems to be what a range of commentators are saying).

 

[Idris2002]

Cameron contradicts Coulson - just what i was hoping for.

Check and mate in five moves or less?

 

[butchersapron]

Oh it's going to be a much much drawn out game than that...

 

[Pickman's model]

Check and mate in five moves or less?

 

[Callie]

Cameron contradicts Coulson - just what i was hoping for.

If back pedaling was an olympic sport Cameron would get gold for that one