(Rupert Murdoch's) Phone hacking: How the Met 'misled courts, parliament and public'

Source: Guardian UK

In a series of attacks, the Metropolitan police were accused of misleading the high court, parliament and the public over the phone-hacking scandal; and of keeping hundreds, possibly thousands of victims in the dark in a way which shielded Rupert Murdoch's News International from embarrassment and expensive legal settlements.

The evidence emerged at a hearing in which Lord Prescott, the former Europe minister Chris Bryant and the Met's former deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick sought permission for a judicial review of police handling of the affair.

Three others including the former media, culture and sport secretary, Tessa Jowell, asked the court to be recognised as interested parties.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/12/phone-hacking-met-high-court

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I'm picturing Rupert Murdoch's empire as a Jenga game....and today a Jenga piece from the very bottom of the pile just got pulled out. Wobble...wobble...wobble....

Interesting.

and then this massive coverup of the hacking. The police told parliament that they notified all the victims. but they lied and that cop was hired by murdoch soon after. The cops notified 39 people. The real number is 4000-6000 and this includes MANY public officials...many members of the inner circles of govt.

This goes way up the govt. chain and already has implicated WAY up the Newscorp ladder to Murdoch's own son (he signed several million dollar payoff/hush money checks.

when this story was first reported?

2003 or 4? Two of Murdoch's peeps were caught hacking the phones of the two Prince's phones. They went to jail and the subsequent investigation was called of by the police. The story kept bubbling up but died after a few hushed up court cases that Murdoch's son wrote the big checks for. The New York Times reignited the story about a year ago with an investigation. Since then it has been gaining momentum and costing Murdoch millions. He's had several employees arrested and his son was suddenly promoted out of the UK to the American side of things.

Now the big police coverup is hitting the news as is the extent of the hacking into govt. phones...under the leadership of Andy COulson who went on to be Prime Minsiter Cameron's right hand man with the media. The whole thing stinks of coverups, buy offs, blackmail and all sorts of law breaking up to the highest levels of newscorp. many of the employees of newscorp now run FOX...

The part on Jowell alone is very interesting, especially given her position:

Bindman's submission said that, unlike Prescott, Tessa Jowell had been approached by police in 2006.

"However, she was not told the extent of the interception and was also left in the dark about precisely what had happened to her private information.

"Nor did she realise that the private information of close friends, cabinet colleagues and family members had been compromised.

"She has now been shown a very substantial amount of material by the new inquiry and is at a loss to understand why material which was available to police in 2006 was not shown to her."



Hmm, cabinet colleagues.

I wonder why the police seemed so eager to minimize and sweep this away and whether any more Tories have been embroiled.

A cockroach like rupert hates daylight.

Dont get me wrong, I would love for his entire media empire to collapse around him but right now he has plausible deniability though hopefully evidence will emerge to show otherwise and cause said collapse.