It's Time the Justice Dept. Got Serious About Hacking Allegations by Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire

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http://www.alternet.org/media/murdoch-bugger-bugged



So it turns out that when Rupert Murdoch told MPs here looking into the phone hacking scandal that it was “the most humble day of my life,” he didn’t really mean it. Had his fingers crossed behind his back. If the revelation that the man behind Fox News, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal might not always tell the truth doesn’t strike you as “hold the front page” stuff, it’s still well worth listening to the tape of Murdoch’s March meeting atThe Sun here that surfaced last week on the investigative journalism website Exaro and was later broadcast on Channel Four television.

In it the billionaire tyrant faces a group of about twenty-five journalists, some of whom face charges either because of their role in phone hacking or for making illegal payments to police officers and public officials—the focus of Operation Elveden, which saw two more Sun reporters arrested last month. Only last April, Murdoch told the Leveson Inquiry that “paying police officers for information is wrong.” But on the tape Murdoch can be clearly heard saying, “Payments for news tips from cops: that’s been going on a hundred years, absolutely.”

He continues: “When I first bought the News of the World, the first day I went to the office…and there was a big wall safe.… And I said, ‘What’s that for?’ And they said, ‘We keep some cash in there.’ And I said, ‘What for?’ They said, ‘Well, sometimes the editor needs some on a Saturday night for powerful friends.”

When some of the journalists complain that they have been hung out to dry by the company’s Management and Standards Committee—which reports to former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein—who turned over millions of internal e-mails to prosecutors, Murdoch assures them the company “haven’t given them anything for months.”

[marmar]

1. Absolutely.

k/r

[bemildred]

2. They need to look into Murdoch's involvement in government spying.

He is definitely one of the media moguls Snowden is saying were in bed with the spooks.

[kelliekat44]

3. How do you know they are not serious? And by "look in to" do you mean surveillence? nt

[malaise]

4. K & R

Murdoch should be in prison

[Autumn]

5. Sic the NSA on him. Ought to get something for our money.

rec

[Trillo]

6. If the NSA is hacking everyone, and if the NSA programs are generally with the assent of government,

then why would the government ever go after a rich person and their company that does the same?