Metropolitan police drop action against the Guardian(UK)

CHIMO

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Tue Sep-20-11 06:42 PM
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Metropolitan police drop action against the Guardian(UK)

Source: guardian.co.uk

The Metropolitan police has dropped its attempt to order the Guardian to reveal confidential sources for stories relating to the phone-hacking scandal.

The Met had been hoping to force Guardian reporters to reveal confidential sources for articles disclosing that the murdered teenager Milly Dowler's phone was hacked on behalf of the News of the World. But after an intervention by the Crown Prosecution Service and widespread outrage, Scotland Yard was forced into an abrupt climbdown.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/20/metropolitan-police-drop-action-guardian

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Wed Sep-21-11 02:22 AM
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1. K&R & Thanks for posting (FEI, there are another 26 paragraphs of this very intriguing article) n/t

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