Police: Murdoch tabloid inquiry being sabotaged

[Turborama]

Source: AP Via CBS

July 11, 2011 10:43 AM

LONDON - British police said Monday that they believe someone is trying to sabotage its investigation into the widening phone hacking scandal by leaking distracting details of the inquiry to the media.

In an unusual statement, Scotland Yard said that a story that appeared on the front page of London's Evening Standard — which claimed that police had sold personal details about the queen and her closest aides — was "part of a deliberate campaign to undermine the investigation into the alleged payments by corrupt journalists to corrupt police officers and divert attention from elsewhere."

The British press has been furiously reporting allegations journalists at the News of the World tabloid hacked into phones of young murder victims, families of dead servicemen and terrorism victims.

The scandal, which prompted Rupert Murdoch's News International to close down the tabloid, has since spread to take in allegations that police were given bribes for tips and other information.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/11/501364/main20078401.shtml

[xchrom]

1. wow. huh -- not something i would think. nt

[Uncle Joe]

2. The malignancy has metastasized and will need to be rooted out, such is

the corruptive power of propaganda on steroids.

Thanks for the thread, Turborama.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Fox News needs to be investigated also

[DFW]

4. Gee, who could possibly be responsible for THAT???????????

Lemme think about that for a second.........uhh, Rupert Murdoch, maybe?

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. When you have an extra billion or two lying around

and you are an unrepentant megalomaniac, with no morals and "fair and balanced" are just empty words of course you are going to try and grease a few wheels. :shrug:

[Kablooie]

6. What do you bet that twice as much phone hacking is going on now at Murdoch inc.

Hell, if I were him and had this great hacking network, I'd use it to try and blackmail everyone in the country that might have evidence against me.
What does he have to lose?