What links Climategate and the News of the World phone hacking scandal? Try Thursday’s arrest of Neil Wallis, former deputy editor of the recently defunct UK tabloid, and the man hired by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson as his “personal media advisor”. The ‘relationship’ is currently the center of a media storm over potential collusion between the press and police. Wallis, however, also happens to be Managing Director of Outside Organisation, the same PR firm hired by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), a government-funded research group, tasked with carrying out “covert” activity after the leaked emails scandal broke.
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?tid=383

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News Corp and the Hacked Climategate Emails: Time for an Independent Investigation

"News Corp would obviously now be on the top of anybody’s short list for possible suspects in the Climategate hacking."

By Joe Romm on Jul 19, 2011 at 12:55 pm

There have been countless independent investigations into the scientists whose e-mails were hacked in November 2009. And the scientists have been (quietly) vindicated every time....

.................. And now we know that one of the key investigative bodies tasked with tracking down the hackers — Scotland Yard – were compromised at the time.

How were they compromised? Neil Wallis — the former News of the World executive editor — became a “£1,000 a day” consultant to Scotland Yard in October 2009.
Last week he became the ninth person arrested in the metastasizing News Corp scandal “on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to section 1(1) Criminal Law Act 1977.”

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In the light of the News Corp phone-hacking scandal, it is clear that Murdoch’s outfit had means, motive, and opportunity for the Climategate email hacking. News Corp certainly has a history of defaming climate scientists and a penchant for hacking.

MORE & TONS OF LINKS:
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/19/272361/news-corp-hacked-climategate-emails-time-for-an-independent-investigation/

Update to include this LOVELY tidbit:
" In October 2009, Wallis became a senior consultant to Outside Organisation — a PR firm and crisis management agency, which … wait for it … “was used by the UEA following the Climategate scandal.”

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MORE:

The EDP has discovered that Wallis, who joined Outside Organisation in October 2009 as a senior consultant, was used by the UEA following the Climategate scandal which broke out in 2009 following the leak of thousands of emails which climate change sceptics claimed showed data had been manipulated in favour of man-made climate change.

A UEA spokesman confirmed Wallis did give them advice following the scandal which last year saw Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit cleared by a committee of MPs of hiding or manipulating data to back up his own science.
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=8061

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The University of East Anglia was not the only UK institution that employed Wallis for reputation management. Concurrently he was employed as a consultant for the Metropolitan Police Services in London, where he had been hired on the recommendation of Deputy Commissioner John Yates, who was also responsible for counter terrorism operations in the UK. Wallis’ former close associate at the News of the World, Andy Coulson, was press secretary for Prime Minister David Cameron, to whom Wallis is now said to have provided “informal” advice.
http://climateaudit.org/2011/07/20/east-anglias-toxic-reputation-manager/

What other damage have you been responsible for? How about we drag your ass out into the streets to tar and feather your pathetic ass.

as I said yesterday, too early to tell, but this just might bring down the modern media system

it really is up to us to do so... glad I have a small role to play.

and a healthy R to boot.

They are going to get blamed for every 'leak' that has happened in the last 20 years.

I wonder who called the photogs and told them where Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were dining that evening in France? Wasn't Piers Morgan at the helm of NoTW back then?

:tinfoilhat:

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. :D

On edit - Piers was at the other tabloid, the Mirror when she was killed. The Mirror, the place Piers mentioned in his book as where he learned how to hack phones.