Parliament Report: News International 'Deliberately' Tried To 'Thwart' Phone Hacking Investigation

[meegbear]

Source: TalkingPointsMemo.com

The British House Of Commons released a scathing report Wednesday accusing Rupert Murdoch's News International of "deliberately trying to thwart" the initial investigation into the News Of The World phone hacking allegations.

"We are astounded at the length of time it has taken for News International to cooperate with the police but we are appalled that this is advanced as a reason for failing to mount a robust investigation," the report said.

The report was put out by the Home Affairs Committee, which examined Scotland Yard's investigation from 2005-2006 into allegations that NOTW hacked into the phone records of murder and terrorism victims, public officials, and celebrities. The investigation resulted in the conviction of reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, but the report criticizes Scotland Yard for narrowly focusing on those two convictions and not examining 11,000 pages of evidence that were seized from Mulcaire. "A huge amount of material that could have identified other perpetrators and victims was in effect set to one side," the report said.

The report also condemned Scotland Yard for its failure to "intensify the investigations" once News International failed to cooperate. "The difficulties were offered to us as a justifying failure to investigate further and we saw nothing that suggested there was a real will to tackle and overcome those obstacles."

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[OnyxCollie]

1. K&R. nt

[titaniumsalute]

2. K and R

This is beautiful. I love seeing that Parliament has a backbone versus our idiot politicians here in the US. Our people are so scared of Fox Noise that they won't even stand up to them.

[Uncle Joe]

3. I do hope they speed up the process informing the thousands of people; whose phones have been hacked

DAC Sue Akers

The committee welcomes DAC Sue Akers's decision to contact all potential victims of phone hacking by the News of the World as part of the current investigation, but is alarmed that only 170 have as yet been informed. At this rate it would take years to inform all of the several thousands of people potentially affected. The committee therefore recommends that extra resources are allocated to her investigation, by the Government directly if necessary.

Thanks for the thread, meegbear.

[beac]

4. K&R! n/t