Breaking: UK PM Cameron to Establish Full Public Inquiry to Get to Bottom of Hacking Scandal

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters / New York Times / BBC News

@Reuters: FLASH: UK PM Cameron to establish a full public inquiry, led by judge to get to bottom of hacking cases

@BBCGlobalNews PM David Cameron promises 'full public inquiry' into phone #hacking & second inquiry into 'culture of British press' LIVE j.mp/oNTMw1

@BBCGlobalNews PM David Cameron: 'I decided to give Andy Coulson a second chance; the decision to hire him was mine and I take full responsibility'

Will update

No link yet.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Judge to head News of the World hacking inquiry - Cameron

A judge will lead a public inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World, the prime minister said.

David Cameron defended his decision to appoint Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor, as director of communications, a job he later quit.

Labour leader Ed Miliband had called on the PM to apologise for the "appalling error of judgement" in employing Mr Coulson, editor from 2003 to 2007.

Mr Coulson is expected to be questioned later at a London police station.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14077405

A second enquiry will look into practices of the press............now included in link above

Mr Cameron said a second inquiry would look at the ethics and culture of the press and he also said the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) would be scrapped, adding: "I believe we need a new system entirely".

[sabrina 1]

2. Is he trying to cover for himself?

He knew about the hacking as it came up several times over the past few years. He hired Coulson one of Murdoch's top guys as his media representative. It seems the British Government and its entertainment industry along with any high profile individual have lived in fear of Murdoch, a man who is not even a citizen of that country, for decades now.

Coulson is about to be arrested, if he has not been already as it is morning there. And as can be expected of Murdoch scum, it is said he 'intends to talk'. So others are probably quaking, including Cameron.

Cameron must also be questioned at least regarding his association with him.

It's stunning to read how controlled the British were by this monster, Murdoch. How could that have happened? Is there more to him than just being a Media Mogul?

I read today that members of Parliament appeared to have been released from fear as one after the other they stood up and finally spoke their minds about Murdoch and his Media Empire's destruction of much of their society.

But it was really the news of the hacking of murder victims' families' phones, of the victims of 7/7 that finally got the public enraged enough to boycott the tabloids and to start petitions to advertisers etc. Some in Britain were calling it 'people power' as Parliament have lived in fear of Murdoch for so long they were afraid to do anything about him.

I wonder what will be discovered in the US? And elsewhere. There is much more to the Murdoch story than we know.

In fact, Julian Assange claimed to have explosive material on Murdoch, which he was using as 'insurance' should anything happen to him. To use THAT rather than any of the other material he has, means there is much, much more to this story than we know about.

I hope this scandal takes down his entire Empire, and then I hope the Moonie Media Empire is next.

The Brits are hoping that they can now start cleaning up their media, ruined by Murdoch owning so much of it, and get back to some real journalism rather than the lies, smears and attacks they have become accustomed to.

I think there are big powers behind Murdoch. He's like a Global Goehring and I don't think he would have become as powerful as he has without the backing of some pretty powerful people.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Its not just Cameron

The issue precedes him by some years.

[disndat]

8. Yes, Tony Blair was elected

by Murdoch's complete support, leading to Blair's support of the Bush lying us (Saddam's "WMDs," remember?) into the U.S. $$trillion dollars war on Iraq. Maybe, now, the whole Iraqi can of worms will finally come to light.

[SpiralHawk]

13. Wow - a vast right-wing international lie & profit propaganda conspiracy

Right out of the bottom of the Republicon International scuzzhole

[Karenina]

4. Andy Coulson has been arrested.

[onehandle]

5. Yes. Take a close look at that mirror. Look past the young, charismatic family man...

...and get to the bottom of the right-wing megalomaniac.

[denem]

6. No No No - "Judge Led" NOT a Judicial Inquiry

Slight of Hand,

The Inquiry will not have Judicial Powers, in particular, no power to order the retention of documents and computer records!

[fascisthunter]

10. so is this an attempt to get folks off the hook?

[florida08]

7. UK regulator signals delay on BSkyB bid

http://www.ajc.com/business/uk-regulator-signals-delay-1004959.html

LONDON (AP) — Nearly a billion dollars was wiped off the value of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting PLC Friday after British Prime Minister David Cameron indicated that the government was not going to wave News Corp's bid for the company through any time soon.

[Kingofalldems]

9. We need a full inquiry in the US

[fascisthunter]

11. You Can Bet FOX News is doing the same shit here in the US

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. Oh yeah I'm sure this is going to be as terrifying for the perpetrators as the so called Iraq War

inquiry.