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Title: Britain's Scotland Yard Chief Resigns Over Phone Hacking Scandal
Source:
Haaretz
URL Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/interna ... phone-hacking-scandal-1.373750
Published: Jul 17, 2011
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2011-07-17 15:30:20 by Brian S
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Comments: 14
London's police chief has quit over his links to a former News of the World editor caught up in the phone hacking scandal. Metropolitan Police commissioner Paul Stephenson denies any wrongdoing. Stephenson has been criticized for hiring Neil Wallis, a former News of the World executive editor arrested last week in the scandal, as a part-time PR consultant for a year until September 2010. He said he did not make the decision to hire Wallis, and had no knowledge of Wallis's links to phone hacking. "I will not lose any sleep over my personal integrity," he said. Earlier Sunday, Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the News of the World and close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was arrested as part of the investigation into the alleged phone hacking and police bribery, sources familiar with the situation said. Brooks, 43, has said she was unaware of allegations that the News of the World tabloid hacked thousands of phones including that of a murdered schoolgirl.
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#1. To: Brian S, mcgowanjm (#0)
Wow! This scandal is getting bigger and bigger every day.
Oh please let it make its way to these shores... {{{chuckle}}}
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The Most Incredible Thing Fox News Has Ever Done By James Fallows Jul 16 2011, 10:42 PM ET Or at least the most amazingly brazen I can think of at this moment. Via Erik Wemple of the Washington Post, the simply unbelievable Fox and Friends segment below. It's about the News of the World hacking scandal. To the good: they treat hacking as a problem and scandal. To the incredible/bad: they present their (now closed) UK sister publication News of the World as a victim of the hacking problem, rather than as a perpetrator.
" HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!!! Citibank and the Pentagon were the hackees -- the objects of hacking, by criminals or spies. Murdoch's News of the World was the hacker -- the perpetrator, the criminal-or-spy counterpart. I submit that this could not happen at any other news organization. Rather, it could not happen at a news organization. It happened at the agitprop operation known as Fox News. Update: As several readers have suggested, I should have pointed out the way the segment ends. Steve Doocy of Fox and his expert agree that it's terrible that the mainstream media are wasting so much time on this old-news London hacking story rather than paying attention to what really matters. Which is the segue to ... Casey Anthony."..... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA 8D
Citation: Failure to make your case. You have leaped (leapt?) to a conclusion ...
Looking forward to FOx NEws explaining our position in the Afghans now that Karzai's Inner Circle has been Fatally Compromised: "Via: Independent: The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai’s brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movement’s increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan. Sardar Mohammad, who shot Ahmed Wali Karzai at his home in Kandahar City on Tuesday, also held regular meetings with British officials, and had two brothers-in-law serving in a CIA-run paramilitary unit, the Kandahar Strike Force, the Washington Post reported yesterday." And the Above was before Last Night, with a Situation that is STILL ONGOING....but from FOX NEWS? ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz...;} " Khan was former governor of central Uruzgan province and adviser to President Karzai. He was member of the Upper House in the previous Parliament. Gunmen stormed him house and shot him dead, Zahir said. Police engaged with the attackers, killing one of them, with the gun-battle still continuing, he said. Security forces were seen patrolling the area, witnesses said. The killing follows the murder of the president's younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, last week by his bodyguard in Kandahar city."
But GodDamn we know all about Caysee Anthony and Carmageddon, huh? ;}
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#2. To: Fred Mertz (#1)
This scandal is getting bigger and bigger every day.
#3. To: Brian S, Fred Mert, All (#2)
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#4. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
#6. To: Fred Mertz (#4)
#7. To: All (#6)
#8. To: mcgowanjm (#7)
It happened at the agitprop operation known as Fox News.
#12. To: _Jim (#8)
It happened at the agitprop operation known as Fox News.
#13. To: All (#12)
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