PCC (Press Complaints Commission) Chair Reportedly to Resign After NoW Phone Hacking Scandal

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Source: Guardian UK

PCC chair reportedly to resign after NoW phone hacking scandal

Peta Buscombe expected to announce formal resignation following criticism of PCC handling of News International affair

Josh Halliday and Roy Greenslade
The Guardian, Friday 29 July 2011

The chair of the Press Complaints Commission, Peta Buscombe, appears about to be the next victim of the phone-hacking scandal. She is said to be preparing to make a formal announcement of her resignation on Friday.

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Lady Buscombe has faced criticism for the PCC's mishandling of the hacking saga since she took the post in 2009. In November that year she came under particular fire for a report in which the PCC appeared to clear the News of the World and admonished the Guardian and its reporter, Nick Davies, for revelations about hacking.

The PCC accepted the claim by News International that voicemail interceptions had been confined to a single reporter, Clive Goodman, and the investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

It concluded that there was "no new evidence" of hacking. Subsequent events proved otherwise, and MPs castigated the commission's report as a "whitewash". Buscombe rather lamely admitted later that the commission had not been "fully informed" and set up a hacking review committee in order to stave off further criticism.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/28/pcc-chair-retirement-phone-hacking

[dipsydoodle]

1. Wholly necessary

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[T_i_B]

2. Well the PCC is totally useless.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Should people that were involved in clearing Murdoch's of accusations be investigated?

If they cleared Murdoch people of accusations I would believe that there was exchange of money involved to hush things up.

[AndyTiedye]

4. Or, More Likely, They Were Being Blackmailed