9/11 families call for U.S. probe of Murdoch

[kpete]

Source: Politico

Angry family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks and a growing number of lawmakers on Wednesday called for a U.S. investigation into allegations that journalists at the British News of the World tabloid sought to hack the phones of their lost love ones.

“Someone should look into it to see if their rights were violated – the family members I’ve talked to are appalled, they’re disgruntled, they have to relive the pain all over again,” Jim Riches, a former deputy chief in the New York Fire Department whose 29-year-old fireman son was killed in the attacks, told POLITICO.

“I think they crossed the line. They’re trying to get messages from loved ones in the last moments of their lives. It’s horrible, and they should be held accountable. It’s despicable and unethical,” Riches added.

Sally Regenhard, vice chairwoman of 9/11 Parents and Families of Firefighters & World Trade Center Victims, said that she also supports an American probe and added that the latest allegations come at a particularly hard time for victims’ families..


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58887.html

[aquart]

1. Yeah, but so far all we have is a foreign request.

Which was refused.

They made an industry out of blackmail. I cannot believe they don't have an in to Congressional blackberries.

[loudsue]

3. I have NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that our legislators have been hacked over & over.

Some of the votes they've made on legislation has absolutely boggled my mind. Votes that make no sense at all....you KNOW ESPECIALLY under bush/cheney, that congress was blackmailed.

I'm so fucking sick of two sets of laws in this country...one for those who are governed and ruled, and one for those who govern and rule (i.e., corporations). This isn't what America was founded on. It's against everything generations of Americans have believed in and supported.

It has to stop.

[aquart]

5. But the blackmailer was Tom DeLay.

Show me a solid link between Murdoch and DeLay.

[Ohio Joe]

2. I started writing last week calling for an investigation

Everyone should. Demand it from your local reps, right up to President Obama.

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

[gpopple]

7. Thank You!

Thanks for posting that link. Please, everyone, start writing!

[femrap]

4. Murdoch's US citizenship

needs to be rescinded...send him back.

[aquart]

6. We at least need to inquire into the deal with Bush I that allowed it.

Because there is no way that deal was clean. But I suppose statute of limitations lets it go.

[gpopple]

8. Please write!

We really need to jump on this now, particularly in light of their $4.6B kick-back...I mean "tax refund".