US politicians demand phone-hacking investigation after 9/11 claims

[UpInArms]

Source: Guardian - UK

Political pressure on Rupert Murdoch has spilled across the Atlantic with a growing number of senior politicians calling for a legal investigation into whether News Corporation broke American laws over the phone-hacking scandal.

Members of Congress from both major parties have waded in to the affair with warnings of "severe" consequences if a report in the Daily Mirror that the News of the World attempted to access the voicemails of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks or other Americans is true.

Two New York members of the US House of Representatives, Pete King and Louise Slaughter, demanded an immediate justice department investigation of whether US laws were broken, particularly in relation to any attempt to hack in to the phones of terrorist victims.

King, who is the Republican chairman of the House homeland security committee, said in a letter to the FBI director, Robert Mueller, that journalists should face felony charges if evidence is found.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/13/us-senators-phone-hacking-inquiry

[Lasher]

1. I was hoping it would come to this.

I hope this doesn't get lost in 'looking ahead, not back'.

[grahamhgreen]

2. Kick!

[JDPriestly]

3. I should hope that any investigation would go beyond just the alleged 9/11

victims.