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I have to say that as a Portuguese citizen, watching this from the 'outside' is somewhat fascinating...
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This woman has a lot to answer for......
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1406429/Pottergate-we-publish-the-secret-tapes.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1406429/Pottergate-we-publish-the-secret-tapes.html
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carmen wrote:“@johnprescott: Tony Blair's aide Ruth Turner was arrested in a dawn raid. Coulson & Brooks were arrested 'by appointment.' It's not the dentists!”
Very interesting could it be Blair next
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buildersbum wrote:carmen wrote:“@johnprescott: Tony Blair's aide Ruth Turner was arrested in a dawn raid. Coulson & Brooks were arrested 'by appointment.' It's not the dentists!”
Very interesting could it be Blair next
Oh, how I would love to see that
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News just breaking;
RB was told on FRIDAY that she would be arrested on Sunday!!!
Looks like she resigned because she knew of that she would be
subject to serious criminal charges.
RB was told on FRIDAY that she would be arrested on Sunday!!!
Looks like she resigned because she knew of that she would be
subject to serious criminal charges.
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Dowler family solicitor Mark Lewis tells Sky News that timing of Rebekah Brooks arrest "stinks" #hacking
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Dowler family solicitor Mark Lewis tells Sky News that timing of Rebekah Brooks arrest "stinks" #hacking
Actually what stinks is that the day RB was arrested by arrangement a NI paper runs a story about Met police "corruption" which seems pretty much a non-story. To manipulate the news away from the arrest perhaps?
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MaryB wrote:From what I read last week, she has already implied that she might not be able to answer questions during this Parliamentary thing on Tuesday because there is an ongoing investigation. So she had already decided she wouldn't answer questions. I hope they see them all separately at the 'meeting' on Tuesday. No conferring.
Yup. Judicial secrecy and all that! We know the way their lawyers advise them. Obviously, don't talk. Don't say anything at all. But that makes you look guilty, so they have this excuse of an investigation.
Her reputation will be in the trash - arrested for snooping through a dead child's things for a story - paying others to do this - and of course lying about it.
If James Murdoch is also arrested it will be interesting to see them stand behind the lawyers and refuse to answer. I don't think the committee will take kindly to that. The dignity of the UK is somewhat at stake when the world can see this is how the "free press" works and I would imagine the committee (unless it's full of pedophiles being blackmailed by NewsCorp) will take a dim view of this.
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widowan wrote:MaryB wrote:From what I read last week, she has already implied that she might not be able to answer questions during this Parliamentary thing on Tuesday because there is an ongoing investigation. So she had already decided she wouldn't answer questions. I hope they see them all separately at the 'meeting' on Tuesday. No conferring.
Yup. Judicial secrecy and all that! We know the way their lawyers advise them. Obviously, don't talk. Don't say anything at all. But that makes you look guilty, so they have this excuse of an investigation.
Her reputation will be in the trash - arrested for snooping through a dead child's things for a story - paying others to do this - and of course lying about it.
If James Murdoch is also arrested it will be interesting to see them stand behind the lawyers and refuse to answer. I don't think the committee will take kindly to that. The dignity of the UK is somewhat at stake when the world can see this is how the "free press" works and I would imagine the committee (unless it's full of pedophiles being blackmailed by NewsCorp) will take a dim view of this.
She apparently has been arrested in respect of both investigations (hacking and police payments).
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Rebekah Brooks arrested by hacking police
The BBC's Mark Sanders: "This is an intriguing development"Continue reading the main story
Phone-hacking scandal
Ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating phone hacking and bribery at the News of the World.
The 43-year-old was arrested by appointment at a London police station and remains in custody.
She was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption.
She quit News International on Friday as pressure mounted over her role in the deepening scandal.
Mrs Brooks was editor of the paper between 2000 and 2003, during which time the phone belonging to murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was tampered with.
BBC Business Editor Robert Peston said News International was not aware that Mrs Brooks would be arrested when her resignation was being discussed at the company on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. She eventually resigned on Friday.
Mr Peston added: "It's certainly the most extraordinary development. Rebekah Brooks is incredibly close to the most powerful people in the UK - the current prime minister, the previous prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. More or less every senior person of influence within Britain."
He said it could now potentially jeopardise her appearance at the Parliamentary Select Committee on Tuesday, where she is due to answer MPs questions on the hacking scandal.
"I would assume having been arrested it's now almost impossible for her to appear. It's very difficult for MPs to ask her questions that wouldn't be seen to be impinging on the police investigation."
In other developments:
Home Secretary Theresa May is to tell MPs about her "concerns" over the Metropolitan Police's hiring of ex-News of the World journalist Neil Wallis, who is currently on bail over phone hacking allegations
Labour leader Ed Miliband calls for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch's "dangerous" and "unhealthy" concentration of power
An advert placed by News International in national newspapers on Sunday describes how the company is "putting right what's gone wrong"
Several Sunday newspapers feature promotions in an attempt to woo former readers of the News of the World, which was the UK's best-selling newspaper
News International says it has set up an independent management and standards committee to see how the company can prevent similar instances happening again
Committee appointment
Mrs Brooks's arrest is the tenth made by Operation Weeting police, who are conducting the current investigation into phone hacking.
Those arrested and bailed by police as part of the new investigation have included ex-NoW editor Andy Coulson, ex-NoW assistant editor Ian Edmondson, ex-NoW chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, senior ex-NoW journalist James Weatherup, freelance journalist Terenia Taras, Press Association journalist Laura Elston, an unnamed 63-year-old man, and ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman.
Officers from Operation Elveden were also involved with this latest arrest. They are investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police, an inquiry which is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
A spokesman for Mrs Brooks says the Met police notified her on Friday, after her resignation had been agreed, that she would be arrested.
He also said her arrest would make her appearance at the committee "pretty tricky" and that said she had been offering to speak to police on voluntary basis since January, so she was "very surprised" to learn she would be arrested.
Her former boss, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch, and his son James Murdoch, chairman of News International, are also due to appear before MPs.
Grave situation
Media analyst Steve Hewlett says the timing of these latest events may have been an attempt to limit the damage done to News International.
"To have a very senior executive of the company arrested would have been rather worse than having a very senior former executive of the company, albeit only just," he said.
"If that's correct, then it may even be that even the latest move by News Corporation to kind of stem the tide - with the resignations of Les Hinton in America and Rebekah Brooks - even that may have been forced on them by events beyond their control.
"Which would raise yet further questions about whether News Corporation have even now really understood and accepted the gravity of the situation that they're facing."
The assistant editor of the Guardian, Michael White, believes the arrest is an attempt by police to deflect attention away from them.
"I'm wary when the police are trying to show the world they have been on the case, because for two or three years they've not been on this case properly and now they're, perhaps they're over compensating a bit to be honest," he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14178051
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buildersbum wrote:This woman has a lot to answer for......
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1406429/Pottergate-we-publish-the-secret-tapes.html
OMG. In a nutshell:
GM: Charles, Charles, Charles, let me tell you something. This is not a business for prima donnas. You know that and I know that.
CB: I'm disillusioned. . .
GM: I have told you that this is not going to be held against you. Charles, you should think very seriously about coming in on Tuesday.
CB: Well, to be frank, Greg, as far as my future at News International is concerned, I haven't toed the line for the editor's pet project. I didn't prance around while the World Trade Centre was being bombed, for her personal amusement. I can't just stroll in.
GM: Why not? Charles, that is what we do - we go out and destroy other people's lives.
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Hearing them squeak about how if they have standards or regulation it will harm this fine institution of the British press, given recordings like these, makes me take that with a grain of salt. Who should be REALLY wound up about this is the BBC and any paper that actually tries to have a decent journalistic standard because these lot give everyone a bad name.
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widowan wrote:buildersbum wrote:This woman has a lot to answer for......
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1406429/Pottergate-we-publish-the-secret-tapes.html
OMG. In a nutshell:
GM: Charles, Charles, Charles, let me tell you something. This is not a business for prima donnas. You know that and I know that.
CB: I'm disillusioned. . .
GM: I have told you that this is not going to be held against you. Charles, you should think very seriously about coming in on Tuesday.
CB: Well, to be frank, Greg, as far as my future at News International is concerned, I haven't toed the line for the editor's pet project. I didn't prance around while the World Trade Centre was being bombed, for her personal amusement. I can't just stroll in.
GM: Why not? Charles, that is what we do - we go out and destroy other people's lives.
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Hearing them squeak about how if they have standards or regulation it will harm this fine institution of the British press, given recordings like these, makes me take that with a grain of salt. Who should be REALLY wound up about this is the BBC and any paper that actually tries to have a decent journalistic standard because these lot give everyone a bad name.
I am still trying to work out what a "Harry Potter emergency" is.
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Chris wrote:widowan wrote:MaryB wrote:From what I read last week, she has already implied that she might not be able to answer questions during this Parliamentary thing on Tuesday because there is an ongoing investigation. So she had already decided she wouldn't answer questions. I hope they see them all separately at the 'meeting' on Tuesday. No conferring.
Yup. Judicial secrecy and all that! We know the way their lawyers advise them. Obviously, don't talk. Don't say anything at all. But that makes you look guilty, so they have this excuse of an investigation.
Her reputation will be in the trash - arrested for snooping through a dead child's things for a story - paying others to do this - and of course lying about it.
If James Murdoch is also arrested it will be interesting to see them stand behind the lawyers and refuse to answer. I don't think the committee will take kindly to that. The dignity of the UK is somewhat at stake when the world can see this is how the "free press" works and I would imagine the committee (unless it's full of pedophiles being blackmailed by NewsCorp) will take a dim view of this.
She apparently has been arrested in respect of both investigations (hacking and police payments).
When they arrest someone in the UK what does that mean? Is she being kept in jail or the police station for questioning? Is there a 48 hour period before they have to file charges or something?
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widowan wrote:Chris wrote:widowan wrote:MaryB wrote:From what I read last week, she has already implied that she might not be able to answer questions during this Parliamentary thing on Tuesday because there is an ongoing investigation. So she had already decided she wouldn't answer questions. I hope they see them all separately at the 'meeting' on Tuesday. No conferring.
Yup. Judicial secrecy and all that! We know the way their lawyers advise them. Obviously, don't talk. Don't say anything at all. But that makes you look guilty, so they have this excuse of an investigation.
Her reputation will be in the trash - arrested for snooping through a dead child's things for a story - paying others to do this - and of course lying about it.
If James Murdoch is also arrested it will be interesting to see them stand behind the lawyers and refuse to answer. I don't think the committee will take kindly to that. The dignity of the UK is somewhat at stake when the world can see this is how the "free press" works and I would imagine the committee (unless it's full of pedophiles being blackmailed by NewsCorp) will take a dim view of this.
She apparently has been arrested in respect of both investigations (hacking and police payments).
When they arrest someone in the UK what does that mean? Is she being kept in jail or the police station for questioning? Is there a 48 hour period before they have to file charges or something?
If she is a suspect rather than a witness she has to be arrested to be questioned under caution. No doubt she will be released under police bail after initial questioning since she poses no threat to the public.
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Home Secretary Theresa May is to tell MPs about her "concerns" over the Metropolitan Police's hiring of ex-News of the World journalist Neil Wallis, who is currently on bail over phone hacking allegations
Labour leader Ed Miliband calls for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch's "dangerous" and "unhealthy" concentration of power
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I like Theresa May. I don't know why.
So is the Met the one doing the arresting and they are also the ones who were taking payments from News Int? That doesn't seem very good, They should have some other body who can be less prejudicial.
I can't even figure out why Brooks would want some guy to dress like Harry Potter as her pet project. Particularly to show up at a news conference that way the day after 9/11. I think she may have been making up the news for so long that she forgot how the real world thinks. Another narcissistic sociopath or is this just how the rich and powerful operate?
Labour leader Ed Miliband calls for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch's "dangerous" and "unhealthy" concentration of power
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I like Theresa May. I don't know why.
So is the Met the one doing the arresting and they are also the ones who were taking payments from News Int? That doesn't seem very good, They should have some other body who can be less prejudicial.
I can't even figure out why Brooks would want some guy to dress like Harry Potter as her pet project. Particularly to show up at a news conference that way the day after 9/11. I think she may have been making up the news for so long that she forgot how the real world thinks. Another narcissistic sociopath or is this just how the rich and powerful operate?
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not forgetting the #McCanns@dontgetfooled
Masterstroke! Brooks has hired #bellpottinger, the same PR firm that represented the #Bahrain regime & #Trafigura HT @kjalee @tomchivers
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I like Theresa May. I don't know why.
So do l, she seems to have her head screwed on and is making some excellent decisions.
Our paper (Mail on Sunday) says we're going to have 'Claires Law' so women can ring up and check whether a man has ever been arrested for violence aginst women after Clare Wood who was brutally murdered by a man she met on FB.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015564/Clares-law-After-mothers-brutal-murder-women-right-check-abusive-partners-criminal-records.html
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That sounds like a good law.
I wonder what Maddie's Law would be, if they named one after her? Not an Amber Alert that describes the perpetrtor of an abduction no one saw and for which there is no evidence.
Would it be the illegalization of listening services? Or more firm laws around neglect?
I wonder what Maddie's Law would be, if they named one after her? Not an Amber Alert that describes the perpetrtor of an abduction no one saw and for which there is no evidence.
Would it be the illegalization of listening services? Or more firm laws around neglect?
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Chris wrote:carmen wrote:@TomParmenter
Dowler family solicitor Mark Lewis tells Sky News that timing of Rebekah Brooks arrest "stinks" #hacking
Actually what stinks is that the day RB was arrested by arrangement a NI paper runs a story about Met police "corruption" which seems pretty much a non-story. To manipulate the news away from the arrest perhaps?
If the Met squares off against NI (I won't say the press because not all the press is involved in the payoffs we hope) what does NI have on their side? They can say, WELL, YOU took our bribes! That's not really a strong argument against them having offering pay for access to what should be deeply secure information.
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Maddie's Law should be a law that makes it a criminal offence to leave young children on their own. This would be the best legacy that Madeleine could leave, the protection of other children from feckless parents.widowan wrote:That sounds like a good law.
I wonder what Maddie's Law would be, if they named one after her? Not an Amber Alert that describes the perpetrtor of an abduction no one saw and for which there is no evidence.
Would it be the illegalization of listening services? Or more firm laws around neglect?
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Bl00dy hell, been on twitter on and off today, and found a tweet about Blair and Cameron, saying that they could be arrested next week, C&P it and its not buggy worked, christ I hope its true
Going to go back and try and find it, ive looked at that much stuff today I'm off
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I saw this too Buildersbum.. Tuesday is meant to be very interestingbuildersbum wrote:
Bl00dy hell, been on twitter on and off today, and found a tweet about Blair and Cameron, saying that they could be arrested next week, C&P it and its not buggy worked, christ I hope its true
Going to go back and try and find it, ive looked at that much stuff today I'm off
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thanks for that Olly, its so fustrating when you have read something and can't prove it.
Someone else also said that "All hell would break out next week" interesting times ahead, if true
Someone else also said that "All hell would break out next week" interesting times ahead, if true
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SFO faces calls to investigate hacking pay-outs
By Ben Fenton and Caroline Binham
The Serious Fraud Office has been urged to open an investigation about payments made by News International in the aftermath of the original phone hacking case in 2007, in case they breached the fiduciary duty of directors.
Tom Watson, a Labour member of the culture, media and sport committee, wrote on Sunday to Richard Alderman, the director of the SFO pointing out his concerns over payments made to Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association, amounting to about £700,000.
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SFO faces calls to investigate hacking pay-outs
By Ben Fenton and Caroline Binham
The Serious Fraud Office has been urged to open an investigation about payments made by News International in the aftermath of the original phone hacking case in 2007, in case they breached the fiduciary duty of directors.
Tom Watson, a Labour member of the culture, media and sport committee, wrote on Sunday to Richard Alderman, the director of the SFO pointing out his concerns over payments made to Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association, amounting to about £700,000.
More....
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dc369f14-b092-11e0-a5a7-00144feab49a.html#axzz1SNtyYfzG
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Given the SFO track record that should definitely ensure no-one is brought to book.
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