Is this Armageddon for Murdoch and NewsCorp?

Badboy wrote:MURDOCH IS GOING TO BE IN UK FOR NEXT FEW WEEKS OVERSEEING THINGS.

I will lay odds he is going to close down the Sun, there have been more arrests and this is all about bribery of the Police. Murdoch could also face
charges in the U.S. under their Foreign Company Good Guidance law.

5:45pm UK, Monday February 27, 2012

Mark White, Home Affairs correspondent

A senior Metropolitan police officer has revealed detectives investigating the corruption of police and public officials uncovered evidence suggesting a "culture" of "illegal payments" at The Sun newspaper.
The potentially explosive revelation came as Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers updated the Leveson inquiry into media ethics on the latest in the ongoing criminal investigation.

Dep Asst Comm Akers said her officers had also uncovered evidence of "corrupted officials" in "all areas of public life" who had received regular payments from the newspaper.

She said payments did not amount to an "odd drink or meal" but "frequent" and "sometimes significant" amounts.

Evidence suggested that one public official was paid more than £80,000 over a period of years.

Dep Asst Comm Akers also revealed that one journalist received more than £150,000 over several years to pay "sources", some of whom were public officials.

The senior officer said a number of employees from The Sun and police officers - plus a member of the Ministry of Defence and a member of the armed forces - had been arrested so far, as part of the investigation.

She said payments appeared to have been made to a number of public officials, from Health, Defence and beyond.



The News of the World was shut down over phone hacking

Dep Asst Comm Akers added: "There also appears to have been a culture at The Sun of illegal payments and systems created to facilitate those payments."

She suggested that journalists seemed to have been "well aware that what they were doing was unlawful".

The Leveson inquiry also heard about an internal email which appeared to suggest Scotland Yard had assured Rebekah Brooks in 2006 that it was not planning to extend its phone-hacking inquiry to include News Of The World (NOTW) staff other than royal reporter Clive Goodman.

Mrs Brooks, who was editor of The Sun at that time, was apparently told detectives were confident Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were "bang to rights" but would only widen the case to include other NOTW employees if they found "direct evidence" of wrongdoing.

The press standards inquiry heard that police also told Ms Brooks they uncovered evidence of more than £1m in payments by the NOTW publisher, News International, during the phone-hacking investigation.



Mrs Brooks edited both the News of the World and The Sun

Tom Crone, the NOTW's head of legal, summarised Scotland Yard's briefing in an email headed "strictly private and confidential" to the paper's then-editor Andy Coulson on September 15, 2006.

Mr Crone began his memo: "Here is what Rebekah told me about info relayed to her by the cops."

It went on: "They suggested that they were not widening the case to include other NOTW people, but would do so if they got direct evidence, say NOTW journos directly accessing the voicemails (this is what did for Clive)."

Mr Crone's message concluded: "They're going to contact RW (Rebekah Wade, Ms Brooks' maiden name) today to see if she wishes to take it further."

Goodman and Mulcaire were arrested on August 8, 2006. They pleaded guilty to intercepting voicemail messages left on royal aides' phones In November that year and were jailed the following January.



Lord Prescott queried police and Crown Prosecution Service behaviour

Later in the day former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott gave evidence to the inquiry.

Lord Prescott made clear his dissatisfaction with a police investigation during 2005-6, which found no evidence of his phone or those of his aides being hacked.

He also complained of a seven-week delay in receiving a response by Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who conducted a review of the original investigation, in 2009.

Lord Prescott subsequently wrote to the director of legal services at the Met Police, asking for formal notification of any information it held concerning him in relation to Goodman or Mulcaire.

Lord Justice Leveson said the letter to the Met legal department was "pretty clear" and "you put everything in".

Lord Prescott replied: "Yes, it was because I thought a legal (officer) would not lie but the police probably would."

He also questioned what he saw as a "conspiracy of silence" between police investigators and officials at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which is responsible for pursuing criminal cases in court.

Lord Leveson said: "I'm sure you’ve heard the phrase, 'cockup and conspiracy' before." He added that he was not drawing a conclusion to Lord Prescott's claim.

Lord Prescott replied: "You sound more charitable than me. I don’t go with cockup.

"These are highly paid, highly intelligent people. I think there is more a conspiracy of silence to hide the facts.

"And frankly, I am stronger of that view in the last few months."

:: Read more about the Leveson Inquiry on our dedicated channel

7:21pm UK, Monday February 27, 2012

Mark White, Home Affairs correspondent

A senior police officer has said The Sun newspaper has been paying "corrupted officials" in "all areas of public life".
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers updated the Leveson inquiry into media ethics on the latest in the on-going criminal investigation.

She said evidence uncovered by her officers suggested a "culture" of "illegal payments" at the red-top newspaper.



The News of the World was shut down over phone hacking

Dep Asst Comm Akers said payments did not amount to an "odd drink or meal" but "frequent" and "sometimes significant" amounts.

One public official was paid more than £80,000 over a period of years, she said.

Dep Asst Comm Akers also revealed that one journalist received more than £150,000 over several years to pay "sources", some of whom were public officials.



Mrs Brooks edited both the News of the World and The Sun

The senior officer said a number of employees from The Sun and police officers - plus a member of the Ministry of Defence and a member of the Armed Forces - had been arrested so far, as part of the investigation.

She said payments appeared to have been made to a number of public officials, from Health to Defence and beyond.

Earlier in the day, singer Charlotte Church tore into the publishers of The Sun over hacking of her phone, destruction of incriminating documents and the "industrial scale of their illegal activity".

Dep Asst Comm Akers added: "There also appears to have been a culture at The Sun of illegal payments and systems created to facilitate those payments."



Charlotte Church leaves the High Court after the legal action

She suggested that journalists seemed to have been "well aware that what they were doing was unlawful".

The Leveson inquiry also heard about an internal email which appeared to suggest Scotland Yard had assured Rebekah Brooks in 2006 that it was not planning to extend its phone-hacking inquiry to include News Of The World (NOTW) staff other than royal reporter Clive Goodman.

Mrs Brooks, who was editor of The Sun at that time, was apparently told detectives were confident Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were "bang to rights" but would only widen the case to include other NOTW employees if they found "direct evidence" of wrongdoing.

The press standards inquiry heard that police also told Ms Brooks they uncovered evidence of more than £1m in payments by the NOTW publisher, News International, during the phone-hacking investigation.



A dark cloud continues to hang over Mr Murdoch's UK print empire

Tom Crone, the NOTW's head of legal, summarised Scotland Yard's briefing in an email headed "strictly private and confidential" to the paper's then-editor Andy Coulson on September 15, 2006.

Mr Crone began his memo: "Here is what Rebekah told me about info relayed to her by the cops."

It went on: "They suggested that they were not widening the case to include other NOTW people, but would do so if they got direct evidence, say NOTW journos directly accessing the voicemails (this is what did for Clive)."

Mr Crone's message concluded: "They're going to contact RW (Rebekah Wade, Ms Brooks' maiden name) today to see if she wishes to take it further."

Goodman and Mulcaire were arrested on August 8, 2006. They pleaded guilty to intercepting voicemail messages left on royal aides' phones in November that year and were jailed the following January.



Clive Goodman (l) and Glenn Mulcaire were both convicted over hacking

After Dep Asst Comm Akers gave evidence The Sun's owner, Rupert Murdoch, released a statement.

He said: "As I've made very clear, we have vowed to do everything we can to get to the bottom of prior wrongdoings in order to set us on the right path for the future.

"The practices Sue Akers described at the Leveson Inquiry are ones of the past, and no longer exist at The Sun."

Later in the day former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott gave evidence to the inquiry.

Lord Prescott made clear his dissatisfaction with a police investigation during 2005-6, which found no evidence of his phone or those of his aides being hacked.



The Sun's owner, Rupert Murdoch, insists practices have now improved

He also complained of a seven-week delay in receiving a response by Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who conducted a review of the original investigation, in 2009.

Lord Prescott subsequently wrote to the director of legal services at the Met Police, asking for formal notification of any information it held concerning him in relation to Goodman or Mulcaire.

Lord Justice Leveson said the letter to the Met legal department was "pretty clear" and "you put everything in".

Lord Prescott replied: "Yes, it was because I thought a legal (officer) would not lie but the police probably would."

He also questioned what he saw as a "conspiracy of silence" between police investigators and officials at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which is responsible for pursuing criminal cases in court.



Lord Prescott claimed there was a conspiracy of silence over hacking

Lord Leveson said: "I'm sure you've heard the phrase, 'cockup and conspiracy' before." He added that he was not drawing a conclusion to Lord Prescott's claim.

Lord Prescott replied: "You sound more charitable than me. I don't go with cockup.

"These are highly paid, highly intelligent people. I think there is more a conspiracy of silence to hide the facts.

"And frankly, I am stronger of that view in the last few months."

:: Read more about the Leveson Inquiry on our dedicated channel

Martin Brunt
February 27, 2012 5:15 PM

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Whenever I call my friends at Scotland Yard's Press Bureau and ask for an update on a current investigation they tell me: "We are not going to give you a running commentary."

What's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers doing then, in another appearance at the Leveson inquiry?

Surely not justifying an investigation that is coming under increasing fire for the way it is using increasing numbers of detectives to raid journalists at dawn and turn over their homes (even removing the loft insulation in one case).

Those that have been arrested are released on bail with a warning not to discuss the matter with anyone if they don't want to be re-arrested for perverting the course of justice.

Yet, here goes the Dep Ass Comm again discussing the evidence in public, talking of her progress and even suggesting reporters knew they were guilty.

She told Leveson that one public official had been paid £80,000 in bungs and that one arrested journalist had received £150,000 in cash to pay sources.

In both cases she's revealing evidence and implying the suspects are guilty, something their lawyers might like to take a close look at.

And she's clearly suggesting there will be more arrests if she has her way.

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Posted by: Smith Sighting on February 27, 2012 8:56 PM"We are not going to give you a running commentary."

rofl

Sarcastic f@@@@@s !!

With a phrase like that I suppose there are no prizes for guessing which investigation that is. ;)

It stinks Martin.

You know it.

We know it.

A Detective Chief Inspector, 3 Detective Inspectors, 5 Detective Sergeants, 19 Detective Constables and 3 officers from the murder review group.

Nine months on.

£1.5m later.

What exactly have they achieved?

Well we know what they haven't yet achieved..

A crime scene reconstruction.

Oh, and..

The abductor.

http://tiny.cc/jrp6s

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Sue Akers's evidence to Leveson was designed to rebut criticism of her investigation by Sun veterans Link to this video
Rupert Murdoch's flagship tabloid, the Sun, established a "network of corrupted officials" and created a "culture of illegal payments", the police officer leading the investigation into bribery and hacking at News International has alleged.

On a day of dramatic developments surrounding the investigations into the tycoon's newspapers, Sue Akers, the deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, told the Leveson inquiry into press standards there had been "multiple payments" by the Sun to public officials of thousands of pounds, and one individual received £80,000 in alleged corrupt payments over a number of years. One Sun journalist drew more than £150,000 over the years to pay sources.

Akers's intervention – a day after the Sun launched a Sunday edition – was designed to rebut criticism of her investigation by Sun veterans, unhappy that 10 reporters and executives from the tabloid had been arrested since last November.

She said Sun reporters largely published "salacious gossip" on the back of the information received. The cases her team were investigating were not ones involving the "odd drink or meal" with public officials, but regular payments using an internal system designed to hide the identity of those allegedly receiving money illegally.

In other developments:

• The Leveson inquiry was also told of an internal News International email that showed how much Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks were told about News of the World phone hacking in 2006, which contrasted with public statements of ignorance made by both former editors of the Sunday tabloid subsequently.

• Charlotte Church, the singer, agreed a £600,000 settlement from News International for phone hacking, including £300,000 in costs.

• It emerged that more than 200 further alleged victims of phone hacking, ranging from former boxer Chris Eubank to the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, are making claims against News International.

• Lord Justice Leveson took aim at Michael Gove, the education secretary and former Times journalist, who had said that the inquiry, launched by David Cameron last summer, was having a "chilling effect" on Fleet Street. The judge said that he believed in freedom of speech and freedom of the press, but added that journalism must obey the rule of law and act in the public interest.

Murdoch himself is understood to have studied Akers's incendiary testimony, and issued a short statement a couple of hours afterwards. He said: "As I've made very clear, we have vowed to do everything we can to get to the bottom of prior wrongdoings in order to set us on the right path for the future. That process is well underway. The practices Sue Akers described at the Leveson inquiry are ones of the past, and no longer exist at the Sun. We have already emerged a stronger company." News International insiders also said the Sun had tightened up its system for cash payments last summer, with any such payments now having to be signed off by the title's editor, Dominic Mohan.

Murdoch was otherwise in a buoyant mood, tweeting about the Sun on Sunday's debut sales. "Amazing! The Sun confirmed sale of 3,260,000 copies yesterday," he wrote, as buyers ignored the corruption allegations to pick up the newspaper that immediately became the market leader on Sunday. Sales of rival red top titles slumped by between 15% and 30%, with the nearest challenger, the Sunday Mirror, down to 1.3m from a January average of 1.75m.

Akers was the first witness in the second part of the Leveson inquiry, which aims to examine the relationship between the press and the police. Earlier in the morning, Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry, read out an email dated September 2006 – five weeks after the Sunday tabloid's royal editor Clive Goodman and a private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, had been arrested on hacking charges – which detailed how much Brooks and Coulson were told about phone hacking. Brooks was then editor of the Sun and she had been editor of the News of the World. Coulson was editor of the News of the World at that time and was later David Cameron's director of communications in No 10.

The note was written by Tom Crone, the former chief lawyer at the Sun and the News of the World, and was sent to Coulson, based on information received from the police by Brooks. Crone warned Coulson that the police had Goodman and Mulcaire "bang to rights" on illegally intercepting voicemails of Buckingham Palace staff – and that the police had discovered a list of "100-110 victims" on the basis of evidence seized from Mulcaire's home.

Coulson was also told police had found records of payments to Mulcaire from News International worth over £1m.

Goodman and Mulcaire pleaded guilty in November 2006 and were jailed in January 2007, at which time Coulson resigned his editorship, four months after the Crone email. At that time Coulson said that while he knew nothing of hacking he took "ultimate responsibility" for what had happened. He used a similar formula in 2009 when he was working for the Conservatives, telling a parliamentary committee: "I have never condoned the use of phone hacking and nor do I have any recollection of incidences where phone hacking took place ... I took full responsibility at the time for what happened but without my knowledge and resigned."

Brooks also repeatedly denied that she, or anybody within News International, knew about the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World in the years after the Goodman and Mulcaire convictions.

Responding to the first reports by the Guardian in July 2009 that hacking was more widespread than the activities of a single "rogue reporter", she wrote to the Commons culture committee to say: "The Guardian coverage has, we believe, substantially and likely deliberately misled the British public."

THERE HAS VBEEN TESTIMONY THAT NOTW ATTEMPTED TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE IN A MURDER ENQUIRY CONCERNING A PI HIRED BY NOTW.

Hi Badboy, Iv'e just been watching the News and briefly, from what I can gather , The NOTW is accused of perverting the course of Justice. Ex DEt.
Jackie Haynes and her husband David Cook (they have since divorced) in 2002 who was leading the investigation of a murder suspect Daniel Morgan. were under suspicion of trying to disrupt the investigation . Jackie Haynes gave evidence and said Private Investigators hired by the NOTW were trying
to find out information about them and she said it was a dreadful time. I was writing as Peter Snow was reporting so I might have got some bits wrong.

Rebekah Wade was lent Horses by SY to go riding!!!

Tom Watson Labour MP says there were 5 Police Investigations and nothing was found so he is taking the matter to Parliament and it will be discussed
tomorrow . This is the most serious charge perverting the course of justice in a murder enquiry so expect heads to roll in the Police Force and Murdoch to be forced now to resign from Newscorp and give up his Directorship of other American assets.

Breaking News.......James Murdoch has resigned from News International.

Panda wrote:Breaking News.......James Murdoch has resigned from News International.

I SAW THIS 3.15 PM? AT MY DAY CENTRE,SURPRISE,SURPRISE.
WHO WILL TAKE OVER,I WONDER.

Badboy wrote:

Panda wrote:Breaking News.......James Murdoch has resigned from News International.

I SAW THIS 3.15 PM? AT MY DAY CENTRE,SURPRISE,SURPRISE.
WHO WILL TAKE OVER,I WONDER.

It's not a question of who will take over, it's more a question of how long Rupert Murdoch will last as Chairman of Newscorp.....this is a very serious
case and he can't plead ignorance.

Personally , I think that Murdoch shouldn't be allowed to produce a newspaper in this country after what has happened and to let him produce the sun on a sunday.....it should not off been allowed to happen.

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James Murdoch resigns as News Intl executive chair

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LONDON (AP) -- James Murdoch, the executive at the epicenter of the phone-hacking scandal at his father's British newspapers, is stepping down as executive chairman of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper arm.

News Corp. said in a statement Wednesday that James, the youngest son of 80-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has relinquished his position at News International to concentrate on expanding the company's television business.

The 39-year-old James will still remain deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. but the move plucks the one-time heir apparent to his father's global empire away from a firestorm over his credibility and his role in Britain's expanding phone-hacking scandal.

News Corp. shares set a 52-week high in New York after the news broke, rising 1.6 percent to $20.11 a share.

"James' resignation was inevitable," said Louis Ureneck, a journalism professor at Boston University. "He either condoned the hacking or was irresponsibly unaware. Neither is acceptable in a top executive of a media company."

James Murdoch is still chairman of satellite broadcaster BSkyB, in which News Corp. holds a 39 percent stake. The hacking scandal effectively killed News Corp.'s bid to take full control of the lucrative media company.

Revelations last summer that voicemail phone hacking went far beyond one rogue reporter at Murdoch's News of the World tabloid have led to three parallel police investigations and an inquiry into Britain's media ethics.

There has been evidence of widespread criminality, with journalists breaking into personal phones and computers, and illegally bribing police and other officials for information to fuel scoops.

The scandal brought down Murdoch's 168-year-old News of the World tabloid and led to the arrests of more than a dozen journalists. Other top News International executives have resigned, but Rupert Murdoch has long insisted that James had his full support.

James Murdoch has twice publicly had to change his story about what he knew when in the phone-hacking scandal. In dramatic testimony before Parliament last year, he insisted he had never been shown a critical piece of evidence that suggested that illegal practices went much further than his company was admitting at the time.

That evidence - an incriminating email recovered by police - was the basis of a massive payout made to a prominent phone hacking victim in 2008. James Murdoch authorized the settlement but insisted that he was never told about the damning email.

Contradicted by his former lieutenants, James Murdoch later had to return to Parliament to adjust his testimony. He was told about the evidence, he admitted, but said he wasn't told why it was important.

Another document uncovered since then has cast doubt on that explanation as well. A printout of a 2008 email proved that James Murdoch had been warned by one of his top lawyers - in writing - that the explosive evidence could lead to a "nightmare scenario."

In a letter sent to U.K. lawmakers in December, James Murdoch explained he got that email on his smartphone over the weekend and he must not have read all the way down to the important part.

His so-called "BlackBerry defense" has since been widely ridiculed.

Media expert and think-tank director Charlie Beckett said the Murdoch family and its global empire are, for the first time, being subjected to external forces because of public anger about the scandal.

"They're not in control of their destiny," he said. "(Today's move) is an attempt to reassert some kind of control."

Beckett said he was surprised that the resignation had not come sooner. He said James Murdoch will remain an integral part of the company, since television is a huge part of News Corp.'s business.

"If that's being thrown under a bus, then I would love to be thrown under a bus like that," Beckett said. "He's not losing his job, he's being given an important role."

In the statement, James Murdoch thanked his colleagues for their dedication, saying they work "tirelessly to inform the public." He also praised the company's latest British newspaper, The Sun on Sunday, which published its first edition last weekend.

Rupert Murdoch praised his son's leadership at News International, saying in the same statement that James has made "lasting contributions" to the group's global strategy.

"Now that he has moved to New York, James will continue to assume a variety of essential corporate leadership mandates, with particular focus on important pay-TV businesses and broader international operations," he said.

Tom Mockridge, chief executive of News International, will continue in his post and will report to News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey, the company said.

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Associated Press writers Raphael Satter and Danica Kirka in London contributed to this report.

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kitti wrote:Personally , I think that Murdoch shouldn't be allowed to produce a newspaper in this country after what has happened and to let him produce the sun on a sunday.....it should not off been allowed to happen.

Hi Kitti,


There is a U.S. directive about Good Governance of Businesses in other Countries and I think Rupert Murdoch will be forced to step down and the 70%
shares own by the Murdoch family will have to be reduced so that they do not have control any more. The NOTW was bad enough, this is much more serious , expect The Sun to close down and I think Murdoch knew this was going to happen which is why he started the Sun on Sunday.

Cameron is not going to come out of this very well, not only did he accept Murdoch's backing for his election, he employed Coulson, is known to
attend Murdoch social events and the Labour Party will make the most of this.

James Cameron has hotfooted it back to the States and for now retain his job as Chairman of bskyb which is very profitable.

On Channel 4 tonight the Editor of Vanity Fair said there is a chance the U.S. Justice Dept. will take action which is why Newscorp has been doing its
own investigation. James Murdoch is ensconced in America now and has no need to go to the U.K. bskyb is run from America. It may be that Rupert
Murdoch will be forced to sell News International if the Justice Dept. rules he is unfit to offer good governance of his British Newspapers. It depends
who takes over as Chairman of News International.

Alistair Morgan, Daniel's Brother says his life has been Hell trying to get to the bottom of Daniel's death. He said Daniel was dealing with Police corruption but didn't know who to turn to or trust in the Police Force. There were apparently several investigations but none which proved anything and
Alistair says there was a cover-up .

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James Murdoch is stepping down as executive chair of News International, the company said today.

In a statement published on Wednesday afternoon, James' father Rupert Murdoch, who runs the company, said:

"We are all grateful for James' leadership at News International and across Europe and Asia, where he has made lasting contributions to the group's strategy in paid digital content and its efforts to improve and enhance governance programs.

“He has demonstrated leadership and continues to create great value at Star TV, Sky Deutschland, Sky Italia, and BSkyB. Now that he has moved to New York, James will continue to assume a variety of essential corporate leadership mandates, with particular focus on important pay-TV businesses and broader international operations."

James Murdoch added: "I deeply appreciate the dedication of my many talented colleagues at News International who work tirelessly to inform the public and am confident about the tremendous momentum we have achieved under the leadership of my father and Tom Mockridge.

"With the successful launch of The Sun on Sunday and new business practices in place across all titles, News International is now in a strong position to build on its successes in the future.

"As Deputy Chief Operating Officer, I look forward to expanding my commitment to News Corporation’s international television businesses and other key initiatives across the Company."










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Operation Elveden, investigating inappropriate payments to police and public officials, have arrested a 32y/o woman today.

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Operation Elveden, investigating inappropriate payments to police and public officials, have arrested a 32y/o woman today.

This is the tip of the iceberg chrissie an investigating Police Officer died under suspicious circumstances.

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Operation Elveden, investigating inappropriate payments to police and public officials, have arrested a 32y/o woman today.

This is the tip of the iceberg chrissie an investigating Police Officer died under suspicious circumstances.

Really? Who was it Panda? My minds a blank.

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1:13pm UK, Thursday March 01, 2012

Mark White, home affairs correspondent

A former anti-terrorism police chief has told the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics that invasions of privacy are "odious" and "can be extraordinarily distressing" but "they don't kill you, terrorists do".
Peter Clarke - the senior policeman in charge of the original investigation into phone hacking - also said he stood by his controversial decision not to widen that inquiry.

The ex-deputy assistant commissioner, who was head of Scotland Yard's counter terrorism division, said there were huge demands on his department's resources at that time and terrorist investigations took priority.

Mr Clarke said his department was dealing with 70 separate investigations into terror plots in 2006, at the time evidence emerged implicating the News of the World newspaper in phone hacking.

A year later, the NOTW's royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed for hacking into the mobile phone voicemail messages of members of the royal household.

Last year, Scotland Yard launched a fresh phone-hacking investigation, amid criticism police had deliberately decided not to properly pursue the original inquiry.

In his evidence, Mr Clarke said: "Invasions of privacy are odious and can be extraordinarily distressing, but to put it bluntly, they don't kill you- terrorists do."

:: Below are live updates from the Leveson Inquiry.



The witness said it was the pressing need to ensure public safety and the fear that a wider phone-hacking inquiry would require huge resources, which mainly governed his decision not to delve deeper into hacking in 2006.

He said that given all those considerations, he would never have sanctioned a wider phone-hacking inquiry with the evidence which was available at that time.

He added: "This wasn't even close, not because of the quality of the evidence, not because of the strategy, but because I'm coping with 70 terrorist operations, although I'd have liked to do it, at that time, at that place, this wasn't close."

Mr Clarke also revealed he had attended dinner on one occasion with News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, as part of a counter terrorism briefing exercise.

He said there was "scepticism" in the media that the capital was a target before the July 7 attacks.

The retired deputy assistant commissioner said he had met Mr Murdoch and held separate meetings with other media bosses in August 2004.

Lord Stevens - the then commissioner - had been "appalled" by the threat of a dirty bomb, he said.

"He directed that he and I should visit the whole range of media outlets, not just News International," Mr Clarke told the inquiry.

There was a "considerable amount of scepticism about the reality of the terrorist threat in the UK", he added.

When asked why he met media organisations for food, he said "it was felt it would be useful to have more informal meetings from across media outlets".

"My sense was that the support was being undermined by some of the negative comment in the media," Mr Clarke told the inquiry.

"The purpose was not to make the police look good, but to try and balance the public discussion, so that communities could have confidence in the integrity of what we were doing."

He added: "I was not interested in trying to make the police look good."

Later at the inquiry, former Met assistant commissioner John Yates said he "was briefed against on an industrial scale" during his high-profile investigation into cash-for-peerages.

:: A 32-year-old woman has been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments made by journalists to public officials.

She is the 23rd person to be detained as part of Operation Elveden.

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Operation Elveden, investigating inappropriate payments to police and public officials, have arrested a 32y/o woman today.

This is the tip of the iceberg chrissie an investigating Police Officer died under suspicious circumstances.

Really? Who was it Panda? My minds a blank.

The person arrested today is:

martinbrunt ‏ @skymartinbrunt Reply Retweeted Favorite · Open
#policebribes Virginia Wheeler, 32, Sun's Defence editor, held on corruption allegation in Scot Yard bribes probe

I'm not sure if Panda was referring to the murder of Daniel Morgan but he was a private investigator, not a policeman.

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Operation Elveden, investigating inappropriate payments to police and public officials, have arrested a 32y/o woman today.

This is the tip of the iceberg chrissie an investigating Police Officer died under suspicious circumstances.

Really? Who was it Panda? My minds a blank.

Afternoon wjk......I don't know how some of my posts end up with those big gaps.

This is part of the post before the "gap" one.

"Alistair Morgan, Daniel's Brother says his life has been Hell trying to get to the bottom of Daniel's death. He said Daniel was dealing with Police corruption but didn't know who to turn to or trust in the Police Force. There were apparently several investigations but none which proved anything and
Alistair says there was a cover-up ."

I saw Alistair being interviewed on Channel 4 News last night and jotted this down. It appears Scotland Yard are very corrupt.....what price an independent review of the McCann case now?

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chrissie, I remember reading about this woman a few days ago , can't remember what she did wrong.

Apparently Newscorp are in possession of 300 million texts and e-mails found in Boxes at NOTW Offices. They are passing all this information on to the
Police with Employees crying foul. The Truth is News International comes under the "Good Governance of Foreign Companies registered in the U.S and there could be an investigation by the US Justice Department, which is why James has hightailed it back to the States.

Newscorp have already spent over £78 million in payment to the victims of phone-hacking and there are many more to come. I think they will force Rupert to stand down as Chairman and Casey, an American , is waiting in the wings. he is a Director of Newscorp.

Panda, she is accused of making payment to the police and or their families in return for stories.

Just saw this on twitter about Yates

Press Release Carter-Rucl<
22 July 2011 Carter-Ruck Solicitors
6 St Andrew Street
London EC4A 3AE
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER JOHN YATES
ISSUES LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
THE EVENING STANDARD
T 020 7353 5005
F 020 7353 5553
DX 333 Chancery Lane
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John Yates, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has today
issued High Court proceedings for libel against the London Evening
Standard over aspects of its repotring of his conduct in the News of the
World phone-hacking investigation. The claim relates to allegations
published in articles on 7 July 2011.
Mr Yates' solicitor, Luke Staiano of Carter-Ruck, said:
"The Evening Standard published highly defamatory allegations
concerning Assistant Commissioner Yates which go to the heatr of
his integrity as a police officer. The allegations are completely false
and without foundation. The newspaper made no effotr to contact
Mr Yates to verify the accuracy of the allegations and even wrongly
claimed in the article that Mr Yates had not responded to calls. The
Evening Standard has refused to apologise or withdraw the
allegations, leaving Mr Yates with no alternative but to bring legal
proceedings."
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For further information please contact Ruth Collard or Luke Staiano of
Carter-Ruck (020 7353 5005 or ruth.collard@carter-ruck.com or
luke.staiano@carter-ruck.com).
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