Murdoch's puppet government seems to have changed it's mind.
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Murdoch's puppet government seems to have changed it's mind.
I don't think they'd have any trouble finding buyers, but the price at the moment would be in the toilet methinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by crippen
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"Apparently if you don't change the standard security code that every phone comes with, then anyone can call your number and, if you don't answer, tap in the standard four digit code to hear all your messages. I'll change mine just in case, but it makes me wonder how many public figures and celebrities are aware of this little trick."
-- Piers Morgan, writing in his 2005 book, The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade, showing an early knowledge of phone hacking when he was editor of the British tabloid News of the World.
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Originally Posted by Koojo
They get rich and powerful BECAUSE they do such things. Else they'd be neither.
You'll find very few intelligent rich and powerful ppl. Generally intelligence seeks stimulation other than money and power. This is the domain of, shall we say, the less-intelligent.Quote:
but I'm constantly bemused that despite obviously being intelligent on some level, they are so stupid they seemed to think they could get away with this shit indefinitely.
Which is why there are so many powerful dumbfucks.
Money can polish me speech, send me to uni and teach me business, but sadly it can't improve my brain. Tragikkally, for some - as our Merkin friends can attest :) - it does none of those things....
The Murdoch empire has shown they are unfit to hold a licence for both newspaper and tv stations OFCOM should revoke their licences immediately.
The Met police have shown they are unfit to pursue an enquiry, they should be replaced immediately.
The three major political parties have shown their judgement to be unsound, their leaders should be made to stand down until the enquiries/criminal cases have been resolved
Phone hacking: Gordon Brown gets his revenge on News International
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By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent9:41PM BST 13 Jul 2011255 Comments
But yesterday, in a rare appearance, he broke his silence with a righteous fury, launching a sustained attack upon Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers and their actions.
In the House of Commons, the former prime minister spoke out against the News Corp founder and his besieged clan, accusing them of systematic criminality, collusion with “the underworld” and the abuse of the vulnerable. In only his second Commons speech since leaving Downing Street, Mr Brown also sought to portray David Cameron and the Conservatives as willing helpers of Mr Murdoch, and perhaps even complicit in his retainers’ wrongdoing.
On the day that Mr Murdoch had to abandon his bid for full control of BSkyB, Mr Brown set out to compound the agonies of the media magnate and end his influence in public life forever.
Speaking for more than half an hour to a packed Commons, Mr Brown’s condemnation of the media verged on the apoplectic, displaying a passion and anger he rarely exposed while in office.
“In their behaviour towards those without a voice of their own, News International descended from the gutter to the sewer,” he declared. “The tragedy is that they let the rats out of the sewer.”
Mr Brown is the son of the manse, his father a Church of Scotland minister, the man who gave him the much-mocked moral compass that guided his ill-fated premiership.
Yesterday, he made no mention of his faith or his background, but there was no need.
The sense of righteous fury Mr Brown projected, and his denunciation of New International’s sins, made clear where on the moral and spiritual scale he located himself and his newly-declared enemies.
Journalists and others working for Mr Murdoch hacked phones, “blagged” financial records, infiltrated email accounts, invaded privacy, violated trust and exploited grief, he said.
“Many, many wholly innocent men, women and children who at their darkest hour, at the most vulnerable moment of their lives, with no one and nowhere to turn, found their properly private lives, their private losses, their private sorrows, treated as the public property of News International,” he said. “Their private and innermost feelings and their private tears were bought and sold by News International for commercial gain.”
He and his family were among the victims, he said, referring to claims – strongly disputed – that The Sun illegally accessed the medical records of his infant son. Because of that experience, he said, he had amassed “a great deal of evidence” about News International and its misdemeanours.
Because of the company, the last decade of British politics was scarred by a “lethal combination of illegality, of collusion and of cover-up,” he said, laying much of the blame at his successor’s feet. Earlier in the Commons, Mr Cameron completed his own break with News International.
The Prime Minister first abandoned his former communications chief, Andy Coulson, a former News of the World editor. If Mr Coulson is found to have been involved in wrongdoing, he must “face the full force of the law,” he said.
He also said that Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief executive should quit, a departure now widely expected next week following her questioning by a Commons committee. She might take over one of Mr Murdoch’s interests in Australia.
For Mr Brown, Mr Cameron’s words were too little and too late. Phone hacking: Gordon Brown gets his revenge on News International - Telegraph
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I don't think Rupert Murdock is a fit and proper person to wear a track-suit.
But he would fit right in Pattaya looking like that ..Quote:
Originally Posted by crippen
Now he and his son have refused to appear before a Parliamentary committee! Which is technically breaking the law. But hell what is another one. Rupert is above the KIng. He is real rich and Famous.
he,s an american citizen so they cant make him attend this parliamentary comm...also the good old U.S.A. are looking into news corps dealings ,phone taps/ 911.. bribes to police and congress so he,s going to get a lot of attention on both sides of the pond,,,about time ,,, the mans no good, but he,s a paid up member of the elite with plenty of power ... but if and thats a big if, he can see himself getting shafted,will be interesting to see what the fkers been up to, and who he brings down with him ... whats the betting he gets on the too ill to partake wagon ....Quote:
Originally Posted by Sailing into trouble
what's the betting he gets on the too ill to partake wagon ...
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Oh i would say that he's had that one covered since his 79th Birthday...
Something along the lines of having too fly back to see his heart specialist as he's too ill to appear before the select committee..
Just hope that yanks stretch his ass with an all intrusive investigation ..
God what a horrible little man !!
all 3 will appear before a parliamentary committee
but may not answer all questions because of the police
inquiry now taking place.
doesn't get any better than this
unless
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-f...e-press-2011-7
The FBI Has Long Worried About British Investigators' Cozy Relationship With The Press
Philip Shenon, The Daily Beast
Jul. 14, 2011, 1:38 PM
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The flood of disclosures about close—and almost certainly corrupt—ties between Scotland Yard and British tabloids is not a shock to many senior American law-enforcement officials. In fact, the FBI, U.S. Customs, and other American law-enforcement agencies have been wary for years about sharing details of some transatlantic criminal investigations for fear they would end up slapped on the front page of News of the World, The Sun, and other newspapers at the heart of the scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, several U.S. officials tell The Daily Beast.
That wariness is likely to grow in light of evidence revealed over the last week that Scotland Yard investigators may have been bribed or blackmailed for information, the Americans said.
“We’d have been foolish to ignore the possibility that what we share with the Brits might get leaked by some corrupt cop over there,” said a senior U.S. law-enforcement official in Washington.
“I don’t want to suggest this is a big hindrance to working with them,” he said. “On most investigations with the Brits, we still work hand in glove. But we know that some our counterparts in the police forces over there are much too close to the press.”
He declined to identify a major investigation in which criminal information had been withheld from Scotland Yard. “But if a celebrity’s name figures into it somehow, if there’s some element of scandal, we’d be very careful,” this source said.
The FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies work closely with their British counterparts on every sort of criminal investigation. The list of recent, notable joint investigations includes the global manhunt for Boston mobster Whitey Bulger—he turned up in California last month—and the search for accomplices of the British-educated “underwear bomber,” who attempted to bring down a Detroit-bound jet on behalf of al Qaeda in 2009.
Joseph King, a former senior U.S. Customs agent who worked closely with the British during his government career and is now a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said he believed there was mostly full cooperation between Washington and London on routine criminal cases and in terrorism and other national-security investigations.
“But if there was some kind of high-profile person involved in an investigation, then you’d worry that the danger of a leak was much greater” and that some details might be withheld from the British, he said. “If we knew someone was talking about trying to kill Prince Charles, that information would be handled a lot differently.”
American officials say their concern about leaks is directed at Scotland Yard, the name still commonly used for the Metropolitan Police Service of London, or “the Met,” and that there is no similar fear in Washington about information sharing with the British spy agencies MI5 and MI6. (MI5 focuses on domestic threats; MI6 is the British equivalent of the CIA.)
“I don’t think we’ve ever had better cooperation with MI5 and MI6, especially when it comes to counterterrorism, especially after 9/11,” an American law-enforcement official said, reflecting an increased partnership between the FBI and the British intelligence agencies, as the bureau shifted to a greater emphasis on prevention following the attacks. “Our anxieties focus on the Met. What we’ve learned this week just shows how right we were to be concerned.”
News reports in Britain and testimony before Parliament over the last week have suggested that Scotland Yard dragged its feet for years in investigating evidence of massive, illegal phone hacking by News of the World and other newspapers, and that several members of the Metropolitan Police were paid off by tabloid editors for information on major criminal cases.
To the alarm of American officials, some senior Scotland Yard officers at the heart of the phone-hacking scandal are the same officers they deal with routinely on high-profile terrorism investigations—notably Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who has been accused this week of misleading Parliament about the extent of the phone-hacking evidence. (Yates has expressed “extreme regret” for not reopening an initial probe of the scandal in 2009.)
“You hate to see Yates dragged into this, because on terrorism investigations he is terrific to work with,” an American official said.
The hesitation of some American law-enforcement agencies to share information with Scotland Yard would suggest a stark turnaround after years—if not generations—of the closest sort of cooperation across the Atlantic.
Lance Emory, a retired FBI special agent who served as the bureau’s representative in London from 1995 to 2003, told The Daily Beast that he never saw any hint of the sort of corruption at Scotland Yard that has been alleged in recent weeks.
He said he had worked with Yates and found him “a real professional” and that “we didn’t fear at all” about leaks from Scotland Yard. “We never had any problem with that at all,” he said. “We had very trusted lines of communication.”
This post originally appeared at The Daily Beast.
BreakingNews Breaking News
AP source: FBI probing allegation that News Corp. sought to hack into phones of 9/11 victims
BBC News - Phone hacking: Murdochs agree to appear before MPs
14 July 2011 Last updated at 17:53 GMT
Phone hacking: Murdochs agree to appear before MPs
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James and Rupert Murdoch initially declined an invitation to appear before MPs next Tuesday
News Corporation's Rupert and James Murdoch have agreed to appear before MPs to answer questions on the phone-hacking scandal on Tuesday.
The Commons media committee had issued summonses after the men initially declined to appear next week.
News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks had agreed to attend.
Meanwhile, Neil Wallis, ex-News of the World executive editor, was arrested on Thursday morning on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications.
Mr Wallis, also a former member of the Editors' Code of Practice Committee, is the ninth person to have been arrested since the Metropolitan Police launched a fresh phone-hacking investigation in January.
The Murdoch-owned News of the World (NoW) was shut down last week amid the mounting scandal over the alleged hacking of phones belonging to crime victims, politicians and celebrities.
'Serious questions'
On Tuesday, the Commons culture, media and sport committee had invited the Murdochs and Mrs Brooks to give evidence at the House of Commons about the phone-hacking scandal.
In a statement, the MPs said that serious questions had arisen about the evidence Mrs Brooks and Andy Coulson, both of them former News of the World editors, gave at a previous hearing in 2003.
In his initial response to committee chairman John Whittingdale, Rupert Murdoch said that although he was not available on Tuesday, he was "fully prepared" to give evidence to the judge-led inquiry announced by the government.
James Murdoch offered to appear on an alternative date, the earliest of which was 10 August, while Mrs Brooks said she "welcomed the opportunity" to give evidence.
But after the committee issued summonses on Thursday morning for the men to appear, a few hours later News Corporation announced that the pair would attend the committee meeting.
"We are in the process of writing to the select committee with the intention that Mr James Murdoch and Mr Rupert Murdoch will attend next Tuesday's meeting," a spokesman said.
The summonses were the first to be issued by a parliamentary select committee for almost 20 years, since the sons of the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell were ordered to appear in 1992.
Committee chairman John Whittingdale said: "It will be the first time that Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch, and indeed, Rebekah Brooks will have answered questions about this.
"They will be appearing before a parliamentary committee so I would hope they would take it seriously and they will give us the answers that not just we want to hear but I think an awful lot of people will want to hear," he told Sky News.
Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust charity which campaigned for a public inquiry into phone-hacking, said the Murdochs' appearance before MPs would be "remarkable theatre".
"But I hope that in amongst the theatre that actually we do start to get some answers to the questions that most people will be asking," he said.
Menezes cousin
London mayor Boris Johnson is meeting Met Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, to discuss the hiring of Neil Wallis as a consultant for the force, for which the journalist was paid £24,000.
It is understood that the Home Secretary has written to Sir Paul to get the "full picture" on the circumstances surrounding his appointment.
And the Home Affairs Select Committee has also written to ask him to give further evidence on the matter next Tuesday.
As part of the contract, Wallis advised the Commissioner's Office, the Directorate of Public Affairs and Specialist Operations, working closely with Assistant Commissioner John Yates.
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John Whittingdale: "There will be a whole range of questions people will want asking"
Police are contacting about 30 suspected phone-hacking victims a week, the BBC understands, after investigations identified some 4,000 possible targets of the tactic.
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead by police in July 2005, says the details of the mobile phone of his cousin were found in documents seized by police.
In other developments:On Wednesday, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, whose UK arm - News International - owns the Sun, the Times, the Sunday Times and the now closed News of the World, dropped a bid to take complete control of satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
- The government has published the advice given to Gordon Brown over launching an inquiry into News International, after the ex-prime minister claimed officials talked him out of taking action. Mr Brown said Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell warned him not to start a probe in 2010, as it was too close to a general election
- Business Secretary Vince Cable told the BBC Radio 4 PM programme: "It is a little bit like the end of a dictatorship when everybody suddenly discovers they were against the dictator". He was stripped of his powers on media regulation after he told undercover reporters he had "declared war" on Rupert Murdoch in December 2010.
- Chief Constable of Surrey Police Mark Rowley has told BBC Surrey he is "immensely frustrated" that, because of the Metropolitan Police investigation, he is not able to respond to claims his force was aware that murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked
Scope of hacking inquiry
- Culture, practices and ethics of the press
- Their relationship with the police
- Failure of current regulation
- Contacts made and discussions between national newspapers and politicians
- Why previous warnings about press misconduct were not heeded
- Issue of cross-media ownership
Phone hacking: Julia Gillard considers review of media conduct in Australia - Telegraph
Phone hacking: Julia Gillard considers review of media conduct in Australia
Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, is to consider holding a parliamentary review of media conduct in Australia in the wake of the "disgusting" phone hacking scandal in Britain.
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By Jonathan Pearlman in Sydney
9:56AM BST 14 Jul 2011
The Greens, which hold the balance of power in the Senate, have called for the inquiry to specifically consider Rupert Murdoch's grip on the Australian media.
"The fact is that we do have less choice in Australia when you go to buy a newspaper," the party leader, Bob Brown told the ABC. "In fact, you can't avoid Murdoch-owned newspapers in a number of Australian cities."
The Greens have been fiercely critical of the Murdoch stable over its coverage of the climate change debate. Mr Murdoch's Australian arm, News Limited, owns the top-selling masthead in almost every state and controls about two-thirds of the nation's daily newspaper circulation.
Miss Gillard said she had been shocked by the ongoing phone hacking revelations and will meet with MPs who have been pushing for a parliamentary review.
"I've truly been disgusted to see it," she told the National Press Club.
"I'm not surprised that that's causing in our national conversation consideration about the role of the media in our democracy and the media's role generally ... Amongst parliamentarians, a conversation is starting about the need for a review. I will be happy to sit down with parliamentarians and discuss that review."
The CEO of News Limited, John Hartigan, has launched a review of all editorial expenses by Australian staff in the past three years, but says he is not aware of any wrongdoing.
Miss Gillard expressed disgust at the "things that have been done to intrude on people's privacy, particularly in moments of grief and stress in the family lives." "I'm not surprised that that's causing in our national conversation consideration about the role of the media in our democracy and the media's role generally," she said.
Senator Brown has proposed assigning a regulatory role to the Australian Communications and Media Authority but the move has been criticised by Australia's journalists union, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
"It's important to remember that in the United Kingdom, this story was exposed through the freedom of the media," said the alliance's federal secretary, Christopher Warren.
^ News International is a global player, so it would be very strange that only one newspaper in the organisation was involved in this hacking activity, that seems to have been going on for years...very strange....and unlikely.....
Rebekah Brooks doesn't have a choice, as a UK citizen she can be summonsed by law.Quote:
News Corporation's Rupert and James Murdoch have agreed to appear before MPs to answer questions on the phone-hacking scandal on Tuesday.
The Commons media committee had issued summonses after the men initially declined to appear next week.
News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks had agreed to attend.
The Murdochs however are US citizens so don't have to attend, I can only assume that their willingness to do so is a damage limitation exercise, take the flak now and -perhaps have a chance of owning Sky in the future or refuse and kiss that opportunity goodbye.
The commitee of MP's is a fairly toothless PR stunt anyway, as Rebekah Brooks' previous appearance proved when she admitted to bribing the police and no further questions were asked, or legal action taken as a consequence. As with all these kinds of parlimentary proceedings it's important to look at who is the chairman, and what vested interest they may have in the proceedings not digging too deeply into the accusations.
You don't have to look far...Quote:
Committee chairman John Whittingdale
I'm certainly not surprised, nor will any of the British public be, I'm sure.Quote:
On 14 July 2005,[2] he became the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. In this role he led the Committee's 2009/2010 investigation into libel and privacy issues, including the News of the World phone hacking affair and was accused of warning members of the committe not to compel former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks to testify due to the risk that their personal lives would be investigated in revenge.[3] He has since defended the News of the World's parent company News International from criticism, saying "I don't think one should condemn an entire global organisation for something that, very clearly, was going wrong at the News of the World." [4] Allegations that his support for News International and Murdoch has a financial basis have been denied[5].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whittingdale
Business as usual.
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From tomorrows Guardian...
Phone hacking: Britain's most senior police officer facing calls to resign over employment of former NOTW executive
Britain's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson, was facing calls for his resignation last night after admitting that a News of the World executive arrested on suspicion of phone hacking was recently employed as his personal adviser.
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Neil Wallis (right) was paid more than £1,000 a day to work two days a month at Scotland Yard as a consultant to Sir Paul Stephenson (left)
By Mark Hughes, Crime Correspondent10:00PM BST 14 Jul 2011
Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the tabloid, was paid more than £1,000 a day to work two days a month at Scotland Yard as a consultant to Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan Police commissioner.
Mr Wallis, known in Fleet Street as The Wolfman, was employed between October 2009 and September 2010 when the Met was facing repeated calls to reopen the investigation into phone hacking amid claims that executives at the newspaper were involved.
Yet Sir Paul had made no mention of the contract with Mr Wallis, Andy Coulson’s deputy, until forced to admit it yesterday. It led to claims that his appointment was an error of judgment which gave the appearance that the force was “colluding” with the newspaper.
Last night the Met was unable to say whether Sir Paul, who is ultimately responsible for the phone hacking investigation, had told deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, the officer leading the day-to-day inquiry of Mr Wallis’s professional relationship with the force.
It also emerged that Sir Paul held eight meetings with Mr Wallis while he was an executive at the tabloid.
One of the meetings was a dinner which took place less than a month after Clive Goodman, the News of the World’s royal editor, and Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective, were charged with phone hacking.
Mr Wallis, who worked at the tabloid when it was originally investigated, also advised John Yates, the officer once in charge of the phone hacking investigation. Mr Yates and Mr Wallis are personal friends.
Mr Wallis, 60, was arrested on suspicion of phone hacking yesterday and later released on bail. The revelations that he was employed by the Met have caused huge embarrassment to senior officers. A Scotland Yard source said: “We know how bad this looks.” Politicians and members of the police authority said his decision to employ an executive who served on the News of the World while it was being investigated over phone hacking raised serious questions about Sir Paul’s judgment.
Jenny Jones, a Green member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, called for Sir Paul and Mr Yates to resign. She said: “Both Sir Paul and Mr Yates have shown their judgment is very poor. It is absolutely time for them to move on.”
The Home Secretary has written to Sir Paul demanding an explanation, while the home affairs select committee has asked that he appear in front of them next week.
Boris Johnson, the London mayor, last night summoned Sir Paul to a meeting. Mr Johnson did not know until yesterday that Mr Wallis had been given a job at the Yard. The appointment of Mr Wallis will form part of the public inquiry into the scandal. His company, Chamy Media, won the contract in October 2009, two months after the force decided not to reopen the hacking inquiry. His role included writing speeches and giving public relations advice. The contract was terminated in September 2010 after the News of the World was further implicated in the hacking scandal in an article in the New York Times.
Mr Wallis appeared to have enjoyed close relations with the force’s most senior officers. Sir Paul had seven dinners and one meeting with him between Sept 2006 and June 2009. Mr Yates met Mr Wallis 12 years ago while working as a staff officer to the then commissioner Sir Paul Condon.
Mr Yates has made his relationship with Mr Wallis known to investigators. Sources close to Mr Yates insist that he played no part in the appointment of Mr Wallis, who beat competition from two other companies to land the contract.
The decision to award him the contract was made by Dick Fedorcio, the Met’s director of public affairs. Mr Wallis was said to be cheaper than the other bidders.
Sir Paul did not mention the fact that Mr Wallis was employed by the Met when he appeared in front of the Metropolitan Police Authority yesterday. The force released a statement confirming the appointment after the meeting. Sir Paul said: “I had absolutely no involvement with the inquiry in 2006 and I had no reason to suspect anyone, including the individual you are talking about [Mr Wallis] of involvement in the inquiry in 2006. I do not believe on any occasion I have acted inappropriately. I am very satisfied with my own integrity. But I do accept … and acknowledge that perceptions can be different from reality.”
Chris Bryant, the Labour MP who was a victim of phone hacking, said: “Sir Paul Stephenson has questions to answer about his judgment because this smacks of collusion.” Phone hacking: Britain's most senior police officer facing calls to resign over employment of former NOTW executive - Telegraph
This is going to be *so* much fun!
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PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A defiant Rupert Murdoch has said that he would challenge the "total lies" issued about his News Corporation media empire in the phone hacking scandal when he appears before MPs next week.
The 80-year-old media mogul earlier bowed to pressure and agreed to give evidence to the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Tuesday, having previously said he was unavailable to attend.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by News Corp, he said he wanted to address "some of the things that have been said in Parliament, some of which are total lies".
He added: "We think it's important to absolutely establish our integrity in the eyes of the public... I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible."
Despite the massive outcry over the allegations centring on the now defunct News of the World, Mr Murdoch insisted that the damage to his company was "nothing that will not be recovered".
He said News Corp would now establish an independent committee, headed by a "distinguished non-employee" to investigate all charges of improper conduct.
However, the pressure intensified with the disclosure that the FBI has opened in inquiry into claims that News Corp journalists sought to hack the phones of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Congressman Peter King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee who asked the FBI to investigate, said it was the "American dimension" of the phone-hacking scandal. "This could be a criminal matter. The FBI handles criminal investigations," he said.
Earlier, the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee issued summonses to Mr Murdoch and his son, James, to appear on Tuesday after they had both said they were unavailable. Following a warning from the Leader of the House, Sir George Young, that they could - in theory at least - be fined or even imprisoned if they refused, James Murdoch wrote to confirm they would be there.
The Murdochs' decision to accede to the MPs' demands came little over 24 hours after they dropped their takeover bid for BSkyB in the face of overwhelming opposition from Parliament. The News Corp chairman and chief executive and his son, who is the organisation's deputy chief operating officer, will appear alongside Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News International, which published the NoW.
Fun indeed, I'm rightly sceptical that the UK will give out anything more than a punitive punishment, but if the US decide to take action, then there is the possiblilty of permanently bringing him down.
Phone hacking 9/11 victims.. well we know how indignant the Yanks get over 9/11.
And is it a coincidence that News Corp was using the same phone hacking practices on both sides of the Atlantic, and perhaps in Australia too? There's only one person that could have sanctioned that. Murdoch himself.
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I wonder where the lovely,fragrant Mrs Rupert Murdoch fits in all this? Is she an active member of the Board? Phone tapping in China! THEY will not be happy!:chitown:
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