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malaise

(267,461 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:57 PM Jun 2014

Who thinks Murdoch wasn't doing the same phone hacking in the US??

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/24/rupert-murdoch-machine-hacking-trial
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One conviction and a whole series of acquittals. That was the big news from the Old Bailey today. It is understandable after a trial lasting eight months and a long wait – almost two weeks – since the jury began considering its verdicts. No doubt the prime minister was deeply relieved that he does not have to answer questions about his friend, neighbour and former editor of the News of the World, Rebekah Brooks.

But the real story that has emerged is about a newspaper, and a media company, where something went badly wrong. Andy Coulson's conviction on a charge of conspiracy to hack phones means that seven employees of News International, as it then was, have either been convicted or pleaded guilty to hacking phones. The first convictions came as long ago as 2007, when a private detective, Glenn Mulcaire, and the News of the World's royal editor, Clive Goodman, were convicted of hacking the phones of royal aides. Those were the days of News International's "rogue reporter" defence, which has now been comprehensively blown out of the water.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/24/scotland-yard-want-interview-rupert-murdoch-phone-hacking
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Rupert Murdoch has been officially informed by Scotland Yard that detectives want to interview him as a suspect as part of their inquiry into allegations of crime at his British newspapers.

It is understood that detectives first contacted Murdoch last year to arrange to question him but agreed to a request from his lawyers to wait until the phone-hacking trial was finished.

The interview is expected to take place in the near future in the UK and will be conducted "under caution", the legal warning given to suspects. His son James, who was the executive chairman of News International in the UK, may also be questioned.
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