Phone hacking: News of the World reporter’s letter reveals cover-up
Disgraced royal correspondent Clive Goodman’s letter says phone hacking was ‘widely discussed’ at NoW meetings
The claims are acutely troubling for the prime minister, David Cameron, who hired Coulson as his media adviser on the basis that he knew nothing about phone hacking. And they confront Rupert and James Murdoch with the humiliating prospect of being recalled to parliament to justify the evidence which they gave last month on the aftermath of Goodman’s allegations.
Stay tuned for the next attempt by the Murdochs to deny/obfuscate the issue!
That is embarrassing!
Their money shouldn’t stop them serving some jail time, but it probably will.
Why are you reporting this Clare? What relvance is it to the Labour party in NZ? I notice you’ve not printed the Guardian’s apology when they wrongly accused The Sun of hacking into the medical records of Gordon Brown’s kids OR the now well known admission from Guardian hacks that the very paper claiming they’ve broken this story is itself, guilty of the very same crime!!
Oh, I get it. Tory lead government. Funny how the entire hacking activities happened under Labour and Gordon Brown, who was warned, did nothing about it. Just a thought.
Jackal – I’m not so sure.
Maybe in the UK but the FBI is now all over this in the States.
Over there, the govt has a closely guarded monopoly on interception which they zealously prosecute.
Regardless, I think this could sink Cameron.
Shame Milliband isn’t actually going after him – what a wet blanket.
@Gregor W, as much as you’d like, this won’t sink Cameron. If this was cash for questions, illicit affairs, fiddling expenses, then maybe, but not this. It’s going to do more damage to NI than political parties. Remember labour brown nosed (pun intended) NI as much as the tories.
The reason Ed isn’t going after him, as you rightly said, he’s a wet blanket but more importantly, him and his party are up to their waists in this as well.
Wonder what Captain Panic Pants thinks of this, are his mates at Fairfax getting nervous?
@ ehoa, word on the street is they are getting very nervous indeed. Interesting parallels with the Tories here and there? Cameron desperately trying to hang tough and blame the kids, and Key doing the same. Both have way too much to deflect and hide, methinks?
There is no comparison Jennifer, what is Cameron trying to deflect? That he hired someone he shouldn’t have done? Well, that person doesn’t work for the government any more. Should Blair and Labour have hired Alistair Campbell, remember him? Dodgy dossier? Ironically Campbell is ex-NOTW with a reputation as a bully and a particularly foul mouth.
Yeah, I’m struggling to see why the Nats would be nervous.
Though I guess your ‘word on the street’ has some facts that we are not aware of…or something.
I struggle to see why Cameron is having the finger pointed at him. He and his advisers would have made some enquiries about Coulson and then taken him at his word when he said he had no involvement. Unless he was hacking on Cameron’s behalf after joining the Tory staff Cameron is clean.
Don’t expect much from Ed Milibrand – he does not have the capacity to unseat anybody – he is very much a fill in leader except they don’t know who he is filling in for. British Labour really needed Sir Peter Mandelson to step up but he saw the writing on the wall and left Parliament.
Must be paying those shoe-shiners for the ‘word on the street’.
@ softstarter, thanks for proving my point about deflection.
Jennifer got you there, softstarter.
Apparently word on the street is the sun won’t come up tomorrow.
If you disagree then clearly you are patsy of the VRWC.
It’s axiomatic.
This just in: black is white!
Yeh she did. I’m still missing her point though.