Rebekah Brooks arrested

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Brown envelope...

...charges dropped.

[cojak]

It's the story that keeps on giving

MSM seem to be staying very quiet about Michael Gove though. Presumably there's nothing untoward about the £5000/month he was receiving from News International.

He used to be a regular columnist for The Sunday Times.

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I was a regular at the Sheridan trial and the defence were going tonto because NI 'lost' shed loads of emails which could provide evidence to suggest corruption.

"what happened to the emails?"

"IT in India lost them"

And this went on for days and days and the whole time I was thinking

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[Sysman]

From The Independent Has the old boy finally lost the plot?, things could get a lot worse for the Murdochs yet:

Bin Talal will have been watching News Corp's share price, which has plunged more than $3 to $15 a share, wiping billions off the value of the company, now worth around $42bn. The selling has been triggered by big US investors who fear that the Murdochs will be investigated in the US, that they face lawsuits running into hundreds of millions of dollars and that they may even be forced to give up running the company. Already, the FBI and the Department of Justice have said allegations that US citizens involved in 9/11 were the victims of phone hacking will be investigated, while News Corp is also facing inquiries by America's corporate watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission, over potential violations of a law that forbids US companies from bribing foreign officials – the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Hmm. British coppers would fall under foreign officials, wouldn't they?

[Freamon]

From The Independent Has the old boy finally lost the plot?, things could get a lot worse for the Murdochs yet:



Hmm. British coppers would fall under foreign officials, wouldn't they?

The fearsome investigative force that is the SEC?

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It is the naive public that always surprises me when they charge up the moral blunderbuster, did they really not know this was how it all worked for so long? They will be demanding Boudica be thrown to the water and the rope be produced if she floats.

The police are the worst in this whole story, they knew about this for so long, corrupt as hell by the sounds of it but nobody is holding them to account.

[Freamon]

It is the naive public that always surprises me when they charge up the moral blunderbuster, did they really not know this was how it all worked for so long? They will be demanding Boudica be thrown to the water and the rope be produced if she floats.

The police are the worst in this whole story, they knew about this for so long, corrupt as hell by the sounds of it but nobody is holding them to account.

This is, of course, the biggest joke of all. The fact that phone hacking evidence has been out in the open (and mentioned in newspapers) for years, but as soon as the newspapers get hold of the story that one specific person (in this case Milly Dowler) has been hacked, they whip themselves up into a media frenzy and the govt are left with no choice but to speak up about it in disapproving tones for once. The circularity / irony levels are off the charts.

[centurian]

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Whereas in reality, it was

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[EternalOptimist]

Whereas in reality, it was

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very good