Brooks Arrested in Phone Hacking Probe

[deminks]

Source: Sky News

Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by officers investigating allegations of corruption and phone hacking, according to Sky sources.

The 43-year-old went to a London police station by appointment and is being held on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and corruption allegations.

Read more: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Rebekah-Brooks-Has-Been-Arrested-By-Police-Officers-Investigating-Phone-Hacking/Article/201107316032015?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_16032015_Rebekah_Brooks_Has_Been_Arrested_By_Police_Officers_I

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Another bad day for Murdoch

[sendero]

1. WOW.

.... now this is getting INTERESTING!

[curiousdemo]

49. The Perk walk should come to Fox News and

Wall Street Journal folks real soon. I hope the FBI get O'reilly, Hannity, Malkins, Bolling, and the whole crew of Fox and Friends first......:toast:

[yellowcanine]

128. That's "perp" walk.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Sounds like she was up to her elbows in this...

[JackRiddler]

96. So is the police force that ordered her show-arrest to protect her from the committee tomorrow.

[WhiteTara]

3. James is next. n/t

[reformist2]

9. And then....????

Dare I think it?

[KurtNYC]

75. Les Hinton

[DallasNE]

76. One Would Think

It is a common practice to go up the food chain in this manner. James Murdoch should be a no-brainer. Getting the old man will be more difficult and that is where this move comes into play.

[xxqqqzme]

88. That traitorous

old fart should have his citizenship stripped and his ass deported.

[Ghost Dog]

111. James Murdoch has powerful friends in the UK establishment.

(Eg. check out The Economist's links). Rather like Saif al-Islam Gaddafi...

[no_hypocrisy]

4. They'll likely make a deal with Brooks.

In exchange for her testimony against Rupert Murdoch, she'll get a conviction with probation.

[deminks]

6. Don't forget, she got 3.5 million pounds hush, I mean, severence pay.

[atreides1]

8. Money isn't that great

When your ass is locked in a cell for 20 years or more.

[66 dmhlt]

38. We can hope, can't we?

[valerief]

109. Don't people like her go to Resort Island prison? nt

[pacalo]

15. If she doesn't talk, smaller minions will.

Among many things, I hope she will explain these payments:

James Murdoch signed cheques for between £800,000 and £1 million to Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association, and Max Clifford, the publicist, which critics say effectively bought their silence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8642786/Phone-hacking-New-body-blows-for-Rupert-Murdoch.html#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuknews%2Fphone-hacking%2F8642786%2FPhone-hacking-New-body-blows-for-Rupert-Murdoch.html&size=medium&count=true&id=I1_1310907062320&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk&rpctoken=509067269&_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe

Must be pretty significant for that amount of hush money.

[HereSince1628]

28. Smaller minions probably have already...

Unlike US Miranda warning 'you have the right to remain silent', it's my understanding that the the British cautionary statement at arrest includes words to the effect that 'failure to answer questions may harm your defense'

We'll see is Britain is any better than the US at catching and frying big fish while letting the little ones swim free.

[oldironside]

43. The actual wording is...

... "You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence".

It used to be closer to the one in the states, but the right wing press and Tory backbenchers kicked up a fuss about the right to silence helping criminals to evade justice. Nice to see the law of karma in action again.

[suffragette]

72. Thanks for the history on that

I've been wondering why it seemed different.
And yes, karma in action there.

[Hamlette]

94. I think this modification is helpful to criminal defendants.

At least they have warning in the UK. If you fail to mention something you later rely on in court in the US it can in fact harm your defense.

[oldironside]

105. Before the change..

... in the UK a suspect had the right to remain silent and the jury at any subsequent trial weren't told if he took advantage of this. The argument being that hardened criminals would sit and keep quiet even if asked reasonable questions, knowing that anything they said could be used against them, but silence couldn't.

I well remember the Home Secretary (Justice Minsiter) of the time, Michael Howard, arguing that this was brought in in the Middle Ages to protect illiterate farm workers from incriminating themselves, and was therefore no longer relevant (shades of habeus corpus and the Hague Convention?).

The change was intended to allow the prosecution to say something along the lines of: "He was asked a reasonable question and he refused to answer. You can infer what you like from that." The obvious inference being that he's as guilty as the man behind the grassy knoll, and the jury should convict.

[JDPriestly]

115. We have the right to remain silent because of the horrible

outrage of our Founding Fathers about the abuses in the British system known as the "Star Chamber."

The Star Chamber (Latin: Camera stellata) was an English court of law that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster until 1641. It was made up of Privy Counsellors, as well as common-law judges and supplemented the activities of the common-law and equity courts in both civil and criminal matters. The court was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against prominent people, those so powerful that ordinary courts could never convict them of their crimes. Court sessions were held in secret, with no indictments, no right of appeal, no juries, and no witnesses. Evidence was presented in writing. Over time it evolved into a political weapon, a symbol of the misuse and abuse of power by the English monarchy and courts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber

Our assurance of a public trial is also perhaps a reaction to the greatly feared Star Chamber.

[JDPriestly]

114. Irony: No doubt Murdoch's press minions helped make the rule

tougher. I can hardly hold my belly for laughing so hard.

[oldironside]

135. Given the law of karma...

... we can expect to have the more disgusting aspects of Rebekah Brooks's sex life paraded in the media. Ugh!

[pacalo]

126. The NYTimes says Max Clifford was paid a million after he sued the NoW following an

admission by Glenn Mulcaire, private investigator, that Clifford's phone was hacked.

(See "Key Players in the Phone-Hacking Scandal" chart: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/08/world/europe/20110708-key-players-in-the-phone-hacking-scandal.html?ref=europe)

[no_hypocrisy]

25. It's a challenge to spend money from a jail cell.

[TheDebbieDee]

83. Ha. Not if you have access to Ebay............

[leveymg]

5. KNR. Seems like the only bit of good news of late. But, I'll take it.

[myrna minx]

7. K&R n/t

[Chimichurri]

10. that would never happen here. You are untouchable if you have money and power. nt

[polichick]

108. Yeah, "liberty and justice for all" my ass!

[JAnthony]

11. Poor woman, lost her job on Friday and goes to jail today..not that we

should show her lots of sympathy.

Rupert and James are probably shitting in their pants right about now.

I'm waiting for the first American Fox News staffer to be arrested. THAT would be sweeter!

[SemperEadem]

21. for real! I am, too.

there is no way this hasn't bled over into their little sandbox.

[Liberalynn]

67. I am hoping some Rethugs and maybe even some Dino's fall out of the Murdochs'

pockets as the mess spreads to this side of the pond.

Then maybe we can get our country back.

I can dream

[Hamlette]

92. my guess is she resigned because she knew she would be arrested

which means Les is next?

[graywarrior]

12. I'm surprised this is happening so fast

[AllyCat]

46. Well, Congress isn't doing the investigation. Then it would be sloooowwww

until everyone forgot and the perps could walk away.

[graywarrior]

50. Truthiness

[October]

62. Bingo! ?nt

[Dept of Beer]

69. Why would they have an investigation?

This isn't a baseball scandal.

:sarcasm:

[Ghost Dog]

112. They had most of the evidence already, but tried to bury it

in a deliberately arcane, highly disorganised database, apparently.

[graywarrior]

119. Ah, I see.

I hope they get what's coming to them.

[KeepItReal]

13. Her arrest may preempt her appearance in front of the UK Parliament Committee

eom

[dipsydoodle]

16. She won't/wouldn't have said much

She could easily reply to most questions that they interfere with an ongoing police investigation.

[dogmoma56]

22. she will only talk to people who will give her immunity to hang Murdock &Son

[EFerrari]

24. Wow, you guys arrest criminals over there. How quaint.

We promote or re-elect them.

[dipsydoodle]

26. Once arrested

they have no other choice other than to release them , release them on bail or charge them. Until in this case she's charged , bought to court and found guilty, she's not, like it or not, a criminal.

Good mornin' :hi:

[EFerrari]

29. Good point. Sorry, I'm foggy from being up half the night.

The coyotes came down from the hills above us and I had to go out there and make noise so they'd go away. Damn nature. lol

[JAnthony]

65. +1000 so true!

[RKP5637]

87. Yeah! In the US having an arrest record / criminal shenanigans is akin to a Boy Scout getting

merit badges. Yep, here we just promote, elect or re-elect them and if they screw up we heap piles of money on them at taxpayers expense and tell them job well done, now you can do it again. And they could never fail here, 'cause they're too big to fail.

[dipsydoodle]

14. Good and I hope they charge her quickly

because that will shut down all further press comments on the subject here in the UK - sub judice.

[oldironside]

27. I would imagine the plod will do it asap.

They feel the need to be seen to be doing a perfect job, given what went on before. If they just question her and then let her go on police bail or something questions will be asked about the timing. e.g. Why did you pull her in on Sunday when it wasn't so urgent? Why didn't they wait until after the select committee appearance?

[dipsydoodle]

34. Why didn't they wait ?

That's the question which is being asked on both main tv news channels as I write. Its almost removed any point of her being called before the committee. She went to the police station to keep a pre-arranged appointment to be interviewed "in connection with enquiries". The news channels are trying to find out when that appointment was made. Broadly speaking everyone smells a rat and it ain't Mrs Brooks.

[mod mom]

39. There are bigger rats but Ms Brooks is certainly in the rodent family.

[dipsydoodle]

70. smells a rat

is colloquial english for suspicious.

[suffragette]

74. Dipsy, Could you elaborate more on this?

Will the timing of this arrest prevent her being questioned before Parliament?
Is there a reason they would prefer that?

[oldironside]

77. Allow me.

It won't stop her being summoned before the committee, but it will seriously limit the questions she can answer. She can legitimitley say that she can't comment on an ongoing police enquiry that she's involved in, or on a anything connected to pending criminal charges. It will have to wait for the trial.

The suspicion is that someone in the Metropolitan Police Service timed this to spare her a trip to Westminster.

As far as News International are concerned it will buy them some time, so they can hope everything calms down. On the other hand I think it's gone far beyond that now.

[suffragette]

79. Thanks. Important to note the potential benefit to them of this timing

After reading the point by Dipsy, found info on emptywheel that is raising the same questions and providing links to the news sources also making this point.
http://www.emptywheel.net/2011/07/17/rebekah-brooks-arrested/

Agree it's gone far beyond the point of this being able to stop it but it does look like some maneuvering is being done.

[peacetalksforall]

95. Sounds like her 5 million severance bought the best lawyer for her.

[dipsydoodle]

78. That is almost what is being alluded to.

There was already the concern that she could have avoided some questions on the genuine basis that the Q's and A's would interfere with a current ongoing police investigation. Given here arrest there's little doubt on that subject now. If she's actually charged all reporting will be shut down too - sub judice.

It has since also become apparent she was told she'd be arrested on Friday. There are no circumstances under which I'm aware that the police would've told anyone else that - probably illegal for them to have done so.

A spokesman for Mrs Brooks says the Met police notified her on Friday, after her resignation had been agreed, that she would be arrested.

He also said her arrest would make her appearance at the committee "pretty tricky".

She had been offering to speak to police on voluntary basis since January, so she was "very surprised" to learn she would be arrested, he added. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14178051

btw Outside of contributing notes to this issue on DU my own feelings on the subject are the same as would appear to be the case with the great majority of the UK public - I've couldn't give a shit about it.

[suffragette]

139. Interesting last sentence

Is that still the case after the resignations at Scotland Yard and given the ties to Cameron and Blair?

[onehandle]

17. When are we going to arrest Roger Ailes?

He's got to be guilty of something.

[Uben]

18. Send em all to prison for life!

Don't let them spend another free day in their lives.

What kind of person allows a news bureau to hack into people's personal lives? A greedy one! Brooks reminds me of the character played by Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl. Like she would stop at nothing to get the story, even if it meant getting it by dubious means. Looks like she suffered the same fate and might even go to prison for her undying loyalty to Murdoch.

Turns out she was incompetent and had to cheat to succeed, but....she got caught. Now she is a collosal failure, and she even brought down the news org that she headed. She'll learn about real fascism in prison. Strip her of every dime and send her ass to prison penniless. That's all they understand.

[City Lights]

19. K&R!

:bounce: :party:

[somone]

20. Good news

Throw the gang in jail

[iwishiwas]

23. That is how to handle this mess.

[N7Shepard]

30. Do you think James and/or Rupert will be arrested?

[non sociopath skin]

31. James, maybe.

The old reprobate will probably manage to stay above it all.

The Skin

[davidpdx]

32. The empire is emploding

The day Murdoch goes down, we can pop some bottles of sparkly open to celebrate their demise...

[JDPriestly]

117. I wouldn't be so sure.

The Tories who benefited most from Murdoch's crimes are in power. Inevitably, anything that happens to Murdoch's empire will weaken their hold on the government.

The Tories will handle this very artfully I believe.

Justice will not be served. I am a total skeptic about this.

[TacticalPeek]

33. I hope they arrested the right person and there was no case of mistaken identity.

[Brother Buzz]

80. I have it on good authority Herbert Khaury, aka...

Julian Foxglove, Larry Love, Rollie Dell, Darry Dover, Emmett Swink, and Tiny Tim is still dead.

[PassingFair]

104. LOL...

Good one!

:thumbsup:

[SpiralHawk]

35. Krappy Karma for the Republicon Family Values News Cabal (R)

Play in the cesspool, stay in the cesspool.

[BeyondGeography]

36. Seems liike she's having a bad month

[Hubert Flottz]

37. Let it RAIN...

K&R

[jwirr]

40. At least they are doing something. If it was here they would probably

help them fly out of the country before anyone could question them.

[JAnthony]

66. +1000 n/t

[MrMickeysMom]

41. Sideshow Brooks Terwilliger?

With salutations to the DUer who noted her resemblance early on...

[blueknight]

44. sacrificial lambs?

i want murdocks ass locked up, not just his minions

[MrMickeysMom]

132. Me too

[pwb]

42. Wonder if American Republican politicians are kept in line by Murdoch also?

Maybe this will free up Republicans to actually govern and care about people again?
I know fat chance of that.
Murdoch is like a cyst on the world.
I wish only the worst to his entire network.
We have finally identified the enemy of compromise and good, and it is News Corp.

[Lars77]

47. This isn't just about the right. The UK labour party was also under control

That's what "New Labour" was all about with Tony Blair. We see it in other parts of Europe as well. The old labour parties re-branding themselves as more modern and forward-looking by embracing right-wing fiscal policy. And the institutional left, such as the labour movements cannot do anything about it because it's the lesser of two evils.

Every politician since Thatcher as been under the thumb of the Murdoch empire. That's why Milliband (the new Labour head) is reacting so strongly, demanding the dismantling of the Murdoch empire. He feels that he can be the first PM in decades to not have Murdochs gun to his head.

[Amonester]

98. +1000 nt

[AllyCat]

45. Just shut him down already! To believe this has not been going on in the US, is lunacy

If he did this in the UK, it is only a matter of time until we find the US hacking. Investigate, prosecute, incarcerate...shut his ass down!

[Lars77]

48. Daily Mail: Brooks gets 3,5m pounds and gagging order

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015435/Rupert-Murdoch-apologises-phone-hacking-meets-family-Milly-Dowler.html?ITO=1490

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is in line for a seven-figure severance package after resigning.

Senior colleagues have estimated her pay-off will be in the region of be around £3.5m.

The size of the figure will leave a nasty taste in the mouths of the journalists who blame her for losing heir jobs following the collapse of the News of the World.

The final editor of the paper, Colin Myler, is also set to to be in line for a bumper pay-off - estimated at £2m after the paper produced its last-ever edition on Sunday.

[Bolo Boffin]

51. This means that she won't have to testify on Tuesday before the government committee

that was going to grill her and the Murdochs.

They had had legal advice that Brooks couldn't refuse to testify because she hadn't been arrested. Lo and behold, she's been arrested!

The fix is in.

h/t to Emptywheel = http://twitter.com/#!/emptywheel/status/92599198440108033

[gpopple]

52. Hoping against hope

that his Dark Empire is called to the carper here. I'm just afraid there's less chance with this Congress and DoJ.

[Bosonic]

53. UK police investigating phone hacking and bribery make 10th arrest, a 43-year-old woman

Source: Washington Post

LONDON — UK police investigating phone hacking and bribery make 10th arrest, a 43-year-old woman.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/uk-police-investigating-phone-hacking-and-bribery-make-10th-arrest-a-43-year-old-woman/2011/07/17/gIQAppViJI_story.html

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Coincidentally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Brooks">Rebekah Brooks is 43.

[Dennis Donovan]

54. It was Brooks:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1507442

[leveymg]

55. Strangely worded headline.

[muriel_volestrangler]

58. Standard procedure for an arrest is for the police just to give the age, sex and town

of the person arrested. The name can be given out by reporters if they know it, but it looks like AP was playing safe since they didn't have confirmation.

[dipsydoodle]

84. There is also now doubt ,

following the arrest of Mrs Brooks, as to what questions the "enquiry" will be even be allowed to ask, never mind the answers , without interfering with an ongoing police enquiry and Parliament cannot override the law - being discussed almost as I write. I have a feeling something clever is going on here behind the scenes. :shrug:

[titaniumsalute]

56. Wow...nice. Murdoch is up to his arse in alligators now.

If it were the US Brooks would have had a stronhly worded letter from Congress to appear. She would not not have appeared and would have lived the rest of her life in a mansion in the Hamptons.

[KansDem]

57. So true...

I wish it wasn't, but it is...:(

[Botany]

59. NY Times; British Police Arrest Brooks in Phone Hacking

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/world/europe/18hacking.html


British Police Arrest Rebekah Brooks in Phone Hacking

LONDON — The British police on Sunday arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s media operations in Britain, according to a former associate
at News International, the newspaper group at the heart of a phone-hacking scandal convulsing the Murdoch empire, the British political elite and the police.

A police statement did not identify her by name but said a 43-year-old woman had been detained for questioning by officers investigating both the phone-hacking
scandal and payments made to corrupt police officers. A News International official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that Ms. Brooks had been
arrested.




Looks like a bad day for Rupert :bounce:

[Stuart G]

60. I hope it gets worse...He has hurt so many, so often..k and r.

[Botany]

61. His organization has hurt many many people ......

.... a friend of mine was one. Her name is Jennifer Brunner and she was our Sec. of State in Ohio and
night after night Sean Hannity would go on his show and tell lies about the corruption in Ohio's vote
and that Jennifer Brunner was helping ACORN rig the election for the democrats in 2008. It was not
long after that she got death threats and had to change her way of life because some weak minded Fox
viewers bought into the propaganda and had to show they were patriots fighting for America.

Not to mention calling the 2000 Florida vote for W bush either.

[Dept of Beer]

71. Until he's arrested then it isn't a bad day for Rupert.

[glinda]

102. Yes and charged and goes to prison.

[Amonester]

100. ENOUGH WITH THESE WORLD DESTROYING PLUTOCRATS! n t

[WillyT]

63. K & R !!!

:kick:

[Demeter]

64. I'm going outside to look for 4 horsemen

and the sound of trumpets....

[Kaleko]

86. Hee! Report any & all observations back to us,

blow by blow.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Javaman]

68. So I wonder if she will take the swan dive on the sword for

Darth?

And if she does decide to take a stiletto to the heart of Burns, I think she will find she is nothing more than a pin cushion.

There is so much more to come.

[dipsydoodle]

73. She was notfied on Friday she would be arrested.

A spokesman for Mrs Brooks says the Met police notified her on Friday, after her resignation had been agreed, that she would be arrested.

He also said her arrest would make her appearance at the committee "pretty tricky".
Continue reading the main story

She had been offering to speak to police on voluntary basis since January, so she was "very surprised" to learn she would be arrested, he added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14178051

[PuffedMica]

81. Good, Murdoch is going down too

I hope Murdoch and his whole slimy empire collapse and take FOX news with it.

[PuffedMica]

82. K&R

[thereismore]

85. This arrest may be an attempt by the police to stop her from testifying at the MP inquiry -

she might want to incriminate herself after being arrested. In any case, this stinks to high heaven.

[dipsydoodle]

89. My thoughts too

Now considered unlikely she will answer any questions without a solicitor present who will advise whether or not to to answer in context with ongoing police enquiry. My news is as it occurs - I'm UK.

[dipsydoodle]

90. btw - cheers to the first person who posted this in LBN

when first announced as per the original UK police statement "woman arrested in connection with etc."

For whatever reason the earlier post was removed.

:hi:....forgotten who you were.

[FourScore]

91. did you hear that Roger Ailes? n/t

[Uncle Joe]

93. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, deminks.

[Sherman A1]

97. Some days you get the bear and somedays

it gets you........:bounce:

[peacetalksforall]

99. I wonder if Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Alsaud is heading the arrangements -

pushing her to resign, finding the lawyer, removing her from the hearing.

[LeftishBrit]

101. Hope this nasty empire is brought down...

and perhaps brings down a few more nasty types in its wake.

[peacetalksforall]

103. Please remember that something else is going on here - if anyone has a clue - please share -w

Murdoch is a full member of the Bilderberg Group. I believe Blair has only been a guest (unless he is already running one of the sub-groups of the Bild Group - there is talk about him running the World Bank? - which is the Bilderberg Group).

The Republican news domination in this country has been cheating us of truth - it's not just NewsCorp. I am one who doesn't think that what they have done was about one upping the competition - there is minimum competition between the solid Republican networks and major papers/magazines. All of them deliver the exact same talking points. Some do it with more clowns than others. The Democratic papers/networks are all in the category of alternative news.

Murdoch delivers for the Bilderberg Group and their plan for the world. Why is he in such jeopardy at this moment - what is happening on that level of wheeling and dealing? Did he betray them? Did his course cross theirs somewhere? We're not talking civility. The BG are as anti-human as anyone could imagine. They are our future micro controllers if we don't smarten up.

Every post here seems to treat him separately from all the entities he is associated with by his membership in the Bild Group.

[Hulk]

106. Good!!

Anyone willing to take his money and conspire with his evil actions should be tossed in the brig, and throw away the keys. Now...let's go after sir rupert next! (fat chance!)

[athenasatanjesus]

107. Phones have a liberal bias.

I don't buy this scandal.

[Lars77]

110. Great timing for Brooks, this.

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/07/another-one-bites-the-dust/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Ex Ambassador Craig Murray's excellent blog.

[dipsydoodle]

116. By not informing the victims.....

The victims are those who left the voicemail messages or texts - not the recipients. That's already been acknowledged.

I don't really see much in the way of civil suits - this is the UK : not the US.

[JDPriestly]

113. She has been promised millions by Murdoch.

A pay-off for her silence?

Are we now in a conspiracy to obstruct justice? And is Murdoch possibly involved?

If I were a serious member of the police force in the UK, I would be asking these questions.

I certainly don't pretend to have the answers as I sit at my computer here in my home.

But I sure would be thinking about this possibility if I were in London.

[dipsydoodle]

118. the police force in the UK....

I think you mean the Metropolitan Police who cover Greater London.

[JDPriestly]

121. Of course. I'm not up on British speak. Sorry if I offended.

[dipsydoodle]

123. I was just explaining

Sorry if it came over differently.

:hi:

[JDPriestly]

133. And I was joking. You are fine. No need to apologize.

[Ghost Dog]

137. When I was a lad in North Wiltshire (Cotswolds), the area to avoid

getting into 'trouble' in began just down the road, Swindon way, where, we all knew, the Thames Valley Police Authority begins...

As for the Met, woooo. I was once arrested, Starsky & Hutch style, and taken to Rotten Row... but that's a long story, weird story, involving Ronnie Scott's, Cuban jazz, and a party afterwards... and Spanish friends...

[Major Hogwash]

120. This is going to make Rachel's day. This will be her top story on her program tomorrow!

You bet'cha!

LoL

[rasputin1952]

122. Question is, will she take the fall for that raisin?

Time for, "Let's Make a Deal"...:D

[Dirigo]

124. Will the Brits Be Able To Hack Rebekah Brooks And Torment Her?

Do you suppose the Metropolitan Police of Londontown will offer up dirt to the highest bidder on Ms Rebekah Brooks the inhouse dirt monger so she can get a taste of her own privacy being compromised in the name of gotcha news and Fox headlines. It will be interesting to see if that 43 year old skank sings like a canary in the mineshaft until the lights go out. Just amazing that that old dolt Murdock would surround himself with such unethical and criminally minded sots. But then again, I guess the criminally minded do hang together don't they.

[mackerel]

125. Resignations out of Scotland Yard over this...Shame all the

way 'round.

[rasputin1952]

129. Beats me, I'm under the impression thier police are pretty ...

professional.

I don't know if the3 Brit system allows for deals like they do here in the US, but I can picture her giving up the goods on that fried goomer...we'll see.

[DeSwiss]

127. K&R n/t

[Malikshah]

130. Came to London for work just as the story was hitting a couple of weeks ago..

Needless to say it's been fascinating. She is a vile piece of work. Been love The Independent's coverage. The fact that Cameron met with her and her ilk sooooo many times since he took office does not bode well for him--more than likely something will be done to cover this all up to save his skanky hide.

[provis99]

131. when I saw "Brooks Arrested", I was hoping it was David Brooks.

But Rebekah Brooks is good enough for the time being...

[NBachers]

134. Yeah, I've been transposing David Brooks a little myself

Can you imagine him pontificating and making his verbal sideswipes at the guys in his jail cell?

[No Elephants]

136. Come on, Becky, made a deal with the prosecution. Give up the Murdoch crime family.

I rec threads I think important, whether I like the content or not. Guess why I recc'd this one, though.

Hint: My cheeks hurt a little from grinning.

[lovuian]

138. Brooks came down for her own arrest

she is stuck