James Murdoch Has Until Thursday To Respond To Allegations He Misled Parliament

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James Murdoch Has Until Thursday To Respond To Allegations He Misled Parliament
Jillian Rayfield | August 10, 2011, 4:25PM


News Corp's James Murdoch has until Thursday to respond to questions from Members of Parliament, relating to allegations that he misled them during his testimony in July.

Thursday is the deadline for submitting supplementary evidence, according to The Guardian, which Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has requested from Murdoch in relation to his July 19 testimony.

Some of those questions stem from allegations by three former News Of The World employees that Murdoch misled Parliament when he claimed he was unaware of a key piece of evidence during the period when he was settling a hacking victim's lawsuit. Murdoch said in his testimony that, at the time, he believed the hackings were limited to one NOTW reporter, Clive Goodman, and he was not informed of a memo that implicated a second reporter, Neville Thurlbec, as well.

Colin Myler and Tom Crone, respectively the editor and legal manager of News of the World at the time, say they showed Murdoch the evidence before the case was settled. If true, this allegation would suggest that Murdoch knew more than he's let on about the extent of the phone hacking at NOTW.

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[salin]

1. bet his response will be circular and uninformative

and will lead to others coming forward with more contradictory statements - making Murdoch look even worse.

[Firebrand Gary]

2. News Corp is fanning the riots stories to take the heat off of themselves.

[Duende azul]

4. You betcha.

And part of the detectives in the Murdoch case were withdrawn.
Now they are screening photos and CCTV-footage to go after alleged looters.

Isn`t that convenient?

[elehhhhna]

3. he will plead "oopsidentally misremembering" and vague, verbose

bullshite. and all will be forgiven.

ten bucks says daddy's working the phones and blackmailing the entire government.