Police 'ignored News of the World phone hacking evidence'(England)

[CHIMO]

Source: guardian.co.uk

Police who investigated the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World obtained previously undisclosed telephone records which showed a vast number of public figures had had their voicemail accessed – and then decided not to pursue the evidence, according to official papers seen by the Guardian.

The revelation – contained in paperwork from inside the Crown Prosecution Service – raises fundamental questions about the behaviour of Scotland Yard, which has claimed repeatedly that it found evidence of "only a handful" of people whose mobile phone messages had been intercepted by the News of the World's private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire.

The paperwork also reveals that police and prosecutors adopted a deliberate strategy to ringfence the evidence which they presented in court in order to suppress the names of particularly prominent victims, including members of the royal family. The existence of this strategy has been omitted from all public statements, including evidence made to the House of Commons media select committee.

In a further blow to the official version of events, the Guardian has discovered that although police and prosecutors named only eight victims in court, material seized by police from Mulcaire and the paper's royal reporter, Clive Goodman, contained 4,332 names or partial names of people in whom the two men had an interest, 2,978 numbers or partial numbers for mobile phones and 30 audio tapes which appear to contain an unspecified number of recordings of voicemail messages.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/04/police-ignored-news-world-evidence

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This makes the Hells Angels look good!

[formercia]

1. Rupert Murdoch smiles.....

"The revelations increase the prospect of the government ordering a new inquiry into the affair. While Scotland Yard's public position remains that it did all that its resources and the law permitted, some police sources admit privately that they failed to fully investigate the case, that decisions may have been distorted by a fear of upsetting Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, and that it was "unfortunate" that the officer in charge of the inquiry, assistant commissioner Andy Hayman, subsequently left the police to work for News International as a columnist."

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. And the Tories smile too - or did, till this came out

The emerging picture of the scale of Mulcaire's criminal activities is also potentially embarrassing for Conservative leader David Cameron's media adviser, Andy Coulson, who edited the paper at the time of the offences and who says he does not remember any illegal act.

[JDPriestly]

3. And the Murdoch crew has paid off the perpetrators for their silence.

The News of the World continues to say that it had no knowledge of any illegal activity by Mulcaire or Goodman. The newspaper has paid out more than £2m to suppress evidence in court actions brought by two confirmed victims, Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers' Association and celebrity PR agent Max Clifford. It has also paid money to Goodman and Mulcaire in deals which are believed to require them not to speak.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/04/police-ignored-news-world-evidence

In this country, Murdoch hires Glenn Beck and others on the right who encourage violent bullying and possibly even armed insurrection, and in the UK Murdoch hires people who listen in on the phone calls of apparently thousands of people.

What kind of organization does Murdoch run? Who does he really represent? And what are the goals of those who run the Murdoch organizations?

Whatever organization Murdoch is running, it appears to be international in scope and to have, shall we say, very low ethical standards. Journalism it is not. Crime? You be the judge.

[formercia]

4. Rupert Murdoch is running a criminal enterprise

None of this is happening by accident. Dirt sells. If it were just Yellow Journalism, it wouldn't be such a big deal, But Murdoch is the Drummer Boy for the right-wing reactionary elite. This is how they have stayed in power. Pit the unwashed masses against each other. Do whatever needs to be done. Lie, cheat, steal. Laws mean nothing to these people. Laws are written by the Elite to keep the Little People under control.