Phone-hacking inquiry spreads to (Rupert Murdoch's) Sunday Times, Prescott tells Lords

[Snoutport]

Source: Guardian UK

Other titles in Rupert Murdoch's media empire, including the Sunday Times, are being investigated for allegedly hacking into mobile phones belonging to well-known people, according to Lord Prescott.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/03/phone-hacking-prescott-claims-murdoch

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Another of Murdoch's papers is being pulled into the scandal. Why isn't anybody asking THIS question: "If all of Murdoch's English newspapers were hacking the phones of English government officials why isn't an investigation being done here in the US to see if Murdoch's American holdings aren't doing the same?"

Murdoch's British news empire may not be able to withstand the sheer number of potential lawsuits that could come from this. What if FOX news has been doing the same thing?

[SemperEadem]

1. gawd! he leaves a trail of slime everywhere he goes.

how in the world did our country get so desperate for citizens that it opened its doors to this one?

[Boswell]

2. 3...2...1./..

until the apologists try to compare him to Soros

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[SpiralHawk]

5. There's your Republicon Family Values again

Right out of the moral cesspool, through the Times and Fox Propaganda, and right into the soul of the planet's willing SuckerPuppets (R).

[vicarofrevelwood]

3. When will we Bury This creep with the fairness doctrine!

[Snoutport]

30. we can only hope!

the guardian UK has six or seven new articles about this up on their website now. A BUNCH of other people suddenly in trouble!

[MasonJar]

6. Probably because we have Holder and Obama at the helm.

They don't believe in investigating the obviously guilty. If they did, W would be in federal prison or the Hague.

[NCcoast]

7. Absolutely agreed

Do we even have a justice department any longer? Is it just the spineless Holder and burrowed in Bushies?

What I think Obama and Holder don't get is that these are 'fight or flight' people. They're on the attack or they're on the run. I was struck by a the FDR speech where he welcomed the hatred of organized money likening them to organized mobs. THEN, THEN he made nice and negotiated with them. They saw him as a threat, so they cow towed to his demands. Obama can't stop extending the hand of friendship and a laurel branch. They see that as weakness and they attack.

By ignoring their crimes he's emboldening them for the next assault. The lesson to them is, there's no price to be paid, so double down and do it again.

[Plucketeer]

8. The wife and I

second that belief! This is a "Look the other way" administration! After all, we gotta make nicey-nice to the cretins so's they'll be our FRIENDS! :puke:

[No Elephants]

15. To be fair, no one's gone easy on Manning. Oh, wait...

[Snoutport]

9. The investigator who cleared Murdoch's paper was given a job by Murdoch soon after

The scariest part of this is that when the police investigated the lead investigator closed the case despite all the evidence. He was then hired by Murdoch's paper as a writer. Politicians in England were afraid to investigate in the fear that Murdoch's newpapers would go after them. (Using the info they were getting from tapping the phones in the first place probably!)

[JDPriestly]

10. Assuming the Guardian is correct, let's compare Murdoch's activities with those of Julian Assange.

Murdoch targets top government officials and celebrities.
Assange welcomes leaks but targets no one.

Murdoch gathers and publishes other people's secrets for power and money.
Assange gathers the secrets of governments in order to share them with those who, according to our Declaration of Independence, own them.

Murdoch picks and chooses which of the secrets he discloses.
Assange omits only those items that he believes will cause harm to someone.

Now, assuming the Guardian's story is correct, who did you say might be charged with a criminal offense?

[Snoutport]

13. They are correct...the question is how many people were tapped...

They caught one privite eye who was doing the tapping. ONE GUY...had over 4000 phone numbers and the pin numbers for a bunch of them. He was sent to jail for admitting to tapping a couple of numbers as was the writer for the newspaper who was working with him.

The news editor at the time was Andy Coulson, who stepped down amidst the investigation but was hired by David Cameron to be his media advisor. Cameron was then elected Prime Minister.

So...the editor in charge while the hacking of all the left wing politicians phones was a henchman of Rupert Murdochs who was immediately promoted into the job of being the media rep and mouthpiece of the newly elected and Murdoch supported Prime Minister. And the police who investigate and say "all clear" are also then hired by Murdoch AND the two guys who already went to jail never say a word and Murdoch's paper gives them each a million pounds (or so) to say nothing.

Crime and cover up that implicates the whole of Murdoch's English newspaper entity, implicates the police investigating (who are paid by murdoch for tips to the paper or for covering up) on up to Andy Coulson who has now had to step down from the British Government.

Cameron's government, by the way, just approved Murdoch taking over their satellite television system so now he has most of their newspaper readers and the satellite system under his control.

[NobodyInParticular]

14. who might be charged with a criminal offense?

Certainly n o t Murdock. He and his cohorts are too well connected with the string-pulling powerful. Eliot Spitzer had to learn the hard way what happens when you go after members of the money elite. See the documentary "Client 9" to get details how plutocrats operate when they target somebody.

[Matilda]

16. You are so right!

The Cameron government has just given him even more power with his takeover of Sky, and now they will be even more
afraid of offending him because he will have the ability to turn voters against them.

Regulation of the press is just a worldwide joke these days.

[Snoutport]

19. Big hacking news coming. Parliament has put aside time on WED

On Wednesday, Lord Prescott is making an announcement in Parliament that will probably implicate the police system in working for Murdoch and covering everything up. It should be fun to read about.

[Snoutport]

27. murdoch's son OK'd big payoffs (maybe)

they paid out law suits to hush people--some of it looks pretty shady so if the uppity ups were approving million dollar hush money checks it must go up pretty high!

[Kingofalldems]

11. K and R for Fox little pallies

[Snoutport]

22. New Here...what is K&R?

[Kingofalldems]

31. Kick and Recommend.

[PatrynXX]

12. How Faux can slam Jullian Assange and News Corp does this...

is a Faux Pas..

The above is 100 times worse than anything Jullian has done. While wikileaks leaks is debatable, hacking into phones is not.

[Snoutport]

26. Willful illegal manipulation pf the people vs. calling someone on their crap

There is not comparison. Assange is sharing people's words with the public. Not pretty but basically just calling people on their own crap.

News Corp has been undermining the opposing political side, placing employees in the highest of government positions and have hired the policeman who covered up the whole thing in the first place.

No comparison.

[glinda]

17. If this is not the first time then it might well be a regular event.

[Snoutport]

18. 4000 people! (according to the guardian)

This ONE guy had over 4000 people on his books!

[snot]

20. K&R'd

[Snoutport]

21. Question...

Pretty new on here. What is "K&R"?

[Uncle Joe]

23. It means the poster is kicking your thread to the top of the forum by posting on it and

recommending it, ie: Kicked and recommended.

I would recommend it except that we only have 24 hours to do so and I missed this thread until now.

Thanks for the thread, Snoutport.

[Snoutport]

24. Thank you!

This was my first original posting. I'm shocked to see how many people have read it!

[Uncle Joe]

25. You're changing the world a little bit at a time.

:) :thumbsup:

[Kingofalldems]

28. Kick again before someone tries to change the subject.

[Snoutport]

29. Another article related to phone hacking!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/11/news-of-the-world-police-corruption