Scotland Yard Chief Quits Over Hacking

[babsbunny]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/world/europe/18hacking.html?_r=1&hp

By ALAN COWELL and RAVI SOMAIYA
Published: July 17, 2011

LONDON — The commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Services, Sir Paul Stephenson, resigned his post on Sunday just hours after his officers arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of Rupert Murdoch’s media operations in Britain, as damage from a phone-hacking scandal moved to the highest levels of British public life.

In a news conference, Sir Paul said his position was “in danger of being eclipsed by the ongoing debate by senior officers and the media. And this can never be right,” according to a report by The Guardian.

The Metropolitan Police, commonly referred to as Scotland Yard, has come under harsh scrutiny in recent days, accused in the press and by British politicians of currying too close a relationship with tabloid executives.

[Monk06]

1. I think there might be some question about his Knighthood in the future. Man the shit is rollin!!

I would not be surprised to see a New New Scotland Yard.

I think Helen Mirren should run it LOL

[pacalo]

2. Judy Dench could be Helen's second-in-command.

:rofl:

[Poll_Blind]

3. They'll be trying to get her to roll over on Murdoch and it just might work.

Oh shit that would be delicious.

PB

[Ikonoklast]

4. She won't be able to spend any of her payoff money in prison.

On attorney's fees, maybe...but if she gets immunity or an offer of a lesser charge to roll over on Murdoch, or James the Lesser, she'll be walking inside of twenty-four to thirty-six months, and can go shopping.

[Monk06]

6. $3.5 mil for what she knows. I think the Saudis will pay ten times that !!

[malaise]

5. Of course it has nothing to do with his 12,000 pound trip that that

spa. This bunch requires a new meaning for owned by Murdoch.