Rupert Murdoch admits NoW phone-hacking cover-up [View all]
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Rupert Murdoch has admitted to the Leveson inquiry there was a "cover-up" at News International over the phone-hacking scandal.
Murdoch, the News Corp chairman and chief executive, giving his second day of evidence to the inquiry in London, said he was "misinformed and shielded" from what was going on at the News of the World, adding that there was a "cover-up".
Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry, said there had been a consistent theme of cover-up during the phone-hacking scandal, and asked Murdoch where he thought this emanated from. "I think from within the News of the World," he replied.
Murdoch said there were "one or two very strong characters" on the now-defunct Sunday paper who, according to reported statements, had forbidden people from talking to Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch, at the time News International chief executive and chairman respectively.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/26/murdoch-admits-phone-hacking-coverup
President Obama should use his Executive privileges to IMMEDIATELY take Fox News off the air and instruct Eric Holder to prioritize investigations into Murdoch in the US.
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