No wonder david cameron tried to put off an investigation for as long as possible!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/world/europe/09britain.html?_r=1&hpLONDON — The British police on Friday arrested a former editor of The News of the World who is also a former senior aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, and rearrested the newspaper’s former royal editor. The arrests deepened the crisis swirling around Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in Britain over allegations of phone hacking and corruption.
Struggling to contain the biggest scandal since he took office more than a year ago, Mr. Cameron announced two separate inquiries into the revelations, saying “no stone will be left unturned.” He also said that he would have accepted the resignation of Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News International who is at the center of the phone hacking scandal, when she offered it earlier this week.
Ms. Brooks, who presided over The News of the World when the hacking took place, spoke to staff members of the paper Friday afternoon, telling them she was “angry at the people who did this and feel bitterly betrayed,” and said she had no plans to resign. She said that Thursday’s decision to shut the paper down was based on the conviction that it faced years of trouble, and that the brand had become “toxic” to advertisers.
Saying “this is not exactly the best time of my life,” she said she did not expect to be arrested, participants said, but that a particular part of the criminal investigation would lead to “a very dark day for this company.” On that day, she said, News of the World staff would finally understand why their newspaper had to be shut down. “In a year you will understand why we made this decision,” she said.
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