Oooooooooooooooo, an inquiry, oooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Fuck off.

We should keep our eyes on the ball here.

The scandal is not that the Screws hacked into people’s phones. They are, after all, gutter-dwelling scumbags, so their behaviour is hardly surprising.

The real scandal is that police knew what was going on, and cravenly looked the other way.

That is a betrayal of all notions of democracy and justice.

“The scandal is not that the Screws hacked into people’s phones. ”

In this case, it really is also about phones. They hacked into the phone of a 13 year old, and deleted messages. This led to the parents being given hope she was alive, and probably influenced the police to pursue other lines of enquiry. Meanwhile the person who did it went on to kill more people. Had the NOTW not deleted the messages, they may have caught him before.

Brookes, coulson etc should be facing lengthy jail sentences for this, not contemplating a symbolic resignation and lucrative PR roles post murdoch.

What they were doing was criminal they think they are above the law and its begining to look they are.

The takeover of BskyB should be put on hold untill a full public enquiry has taken place but that spineless wimp jeremy cunt just like his party leader is in murdochs pocket and will do nothing.

Cameron was scared shitless this morning when asked about it, even came out with some bollocks about a thorough and without fear or favour police investigation.
No doubt the same police who left no stone unturned last time around. Wankers.

First Coulson and now Rebekah Brooks:

“News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks said today she was ‘appalled and shocked’ by allegations that a private investigator working for the News of the World hacked into schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone after she went missing.”
http://search.independent.co.uk/topic/tesco-asda-market-share

It is truly astonishing how the highly-paid senior executives running Murdoch owned media hadn’t a clue as to how the journalists working to them routinely went about gathering news stories.

“It is truly astonishing how the highly-paid senior executives running Murdoch owned media hadn’t a clue as to how the journalists working to them routinely went about gathering news stories.”

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm there bob? 😉

It is extraordinary, isn’t it, that so much fuss was made by the press about Phorm, and the Intercept Modernisation Programme, but we’ve heard comparatively very little about ‘phone-hacking’ by um… the press.

As usual, David Allen Green is excellent on this: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2011/07/news-allegations-evidence-2

So what did Mulcaire pick up on David Kellys’ mobile phone?

@6: “Do I detect a hint of sarcasm there bob? ”

Too right. Try this editorial in the Financial Times:

“For a start, Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News Corp’s UK operations, should go. Assuming the allegations are correct, as the editor of the News of the World when Ms Dowler’s phone was hacked, her position is untenable. Although she has pleaded ignorance, the final responsibility was hers.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cec0d512-a736-11e0-b6d4-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1RGDREBuH

New allegations tonight on Channel 4.

Apparently NOTW tapped the phone, and followed a senior detective at the Met. He realised he was being followed ,and the police ran a counter surveillance operation and found out the van was registered to NOTW.

So concerned were the police that they had a meeting with Brooks about it. But then they sat on the information. Fuckers the lot of them. Brooks should resign. She is either a liar or them most incompetent editor in history.

I see the spineless political class is doing jack shit as usual.

“For a start, Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News Corp’s UK operations, should go. Assuming the allegations are correct, as the editor of the News of the World when Ms Dowler’s phone was hacked, her position is untenable. Although she has pleaded ignorance, the final responsibility was hers.”

“Don’t tell me how you got this incredibly personal and private story that could only have been obtained via nefarious means.”

Apparently NOTW tapped the phone, and followed a senior detective at the Met. He realised he was being followed ,and the police ran a counter surveillance operation and found out the van was registered to NOTW.

So concerned were the police that they had a meeting with Brooks about it. But then they sat on the information.

Christ, really? *Checks*… yep. Christ.

I had some strange and worrying messages left on my answer phone in 2004 and then a burglary of my home which led to a heart attack with an entirely unexpected spell in intensive care in the local hospital where I was wired up like a scene from Casualty.

One result was that I turned off my answer phone and thereafter relied on BT’s caller ID service for the phone numbers of any callers so I could phone them back.

Of course, that cuts out “number withheld” callers and the downside is that some NHS calls about appointments come in with the number withheld. But I least I know that my answer phone couldn’t be hacked into since 2004. More recently, I’ve taken advantage of BT’s 1571 service for callers to leave messages since I figure that hackers will be more wary of getting entangled with that. An illuminating insight is that those unwelcome, unsolicited cold calls avoid leaving any messages on the BT 1571 service.

Ford have now pulled their adverts from NOTW.

Murdoch does not listen to anything but cash. So this could be very bad for Brooks.

Nothing should be done to encourage to belief that throwing Ms Brooks under the proverbial omnibus will suffice.

Let’s assume for a mad moment that maybe, just maybe, Coulson and Brookes/Wade did know about, and authorise this wholesale, systematic law-breaking and abuse of the dead, and their families. That would make them pretty heavy criminals wouldn’t it? Now, the former was one of Cameron’s closest associates, personal, private and political, for several years. The latter is a close family friend who stayed over at his house last Christmas. My question is this – just assuming for an insane instant that these editors had any control of what was going on at their papers, and are therefore offenders who should be imprisoned for several years – can anyone think of another British Prime Minister who has been so closely associated with criminals to such a degree? A PM who in effect a gang groupie, living off the favours of his completely crooked pals?

Come on Cjcjcjcjjjjjj and So Much for Sanity, where are you to let us know why this isn’t such a big deal?

Murdoch will ditch Brooks, Coulson and any others from his camp, without hesitation if he reckons he can scrape some of the shit off himself. He must not be allowed to walk away from this, a suitable punishment, not to mention a just outcome, would be for the BskyB deal to be terminated. Not postponed, scrapped! He wants control over the media, although, to be influenced by the likes of the Sun and News of the World, you must be a bit of a fuckwit anyway, so Murdoch will always have some support, but a lot less than before. DO’NT LET THE VILE OLD BASTARD OFF THE HOOK!