Rockefeller Urges Probe Into News Corp. For Phone Hacking

[KittyWampus]

Rockefeller Urges Probe Into News Corp. For Phone Hacking
Sarah Lai Stirland | July 12, 2011, 8:12PM

A powerful U.S. senator with jurisdiction over privacy and telecommunications issues late Tuesday urged regulators to look into whether News. Corp. had violated any U.S. laws when its British journalists gained unauthorized access to several individuals' voice mails to pursue stories.

"The reported hacking by News Corporation newspapers against a range of individuals--including children--is offensive and a serious breach of journalistic ethics," said Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Chairman John D. Rockefeller in a press statement.

"This raises serious questions about whether the company has broken U.S. law, and I encourage the appropriate agencies to investigate to ensure that Americans have not had their privacy violated," he added. "I am concerned that the admitted phone hacking in London by the News Corp. may have extended to 9/11 victims or other Americans. If they did, the consequences will be severe."

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Some of the British press have reported that a New York City Cop claims that he was contacted by News Of The World reporters for access to the old voice mail records of some of the victims of the September 11 attacks.

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/rockefeller-urges-probe-into-news-corp-for-phone-hacking.php?ref=fpblg

[spanone]

1. k&r...

[R. P. McMurphy]

2. K & R n/t

[spanone]

3. bet this won't be a headline on faux news

[Kingofalldems]

4. Kick and Rec to the top

[BeFree]

5. Of course fox hacked Americans... Duh!

So: "If they did, the consequences will be severe"

[femrap]

6. Take Murdoch's US

citizenship away and deport him....or send him to prison.

How long we have suffered his evil actions..

[Quantess]

7. time for a kick

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. He could launch a probe ...DOJ will do nothing

Senate Investigations
Historically, successful Senate investigations have required a combination of persistence, diligence, expert staff, sharp questioning, good publicity, and some good luck.
Major Senate Investigations: A Selected List

Senate Committee Investigates Titanic Disaster, 1912
Senate Investigates the "Teapot Dome" Scandal, April 15, 1922
"Merchants of Death" (Nye Committee), September 4, 1934
The Truman Committee, March 1, 1941
Kefauver Crime Committee Launched, May 3, 1950
Watergate Leaks Lead to Open Hearings, March 28, 1973
Is It True that Oliver North Said during the 1987 Iran-Contra Hearings Osama bin Laden Had Threatened His Life?


http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Investigations_vrd.htm

[malaise]

9. What's interesting is how all parties in Britain came together to

force him to cancel the BSkyB bid. In the US Murdoch is controlled by one party.
Maybe the unraveling is about to begin. I'm lovin' it.
These unscrupulous RW scoundrels must be destroyed.

[Aerows]

10. Going against the British royal family, including the queen

and now he has the attention of the Rockefellers. That's going to end well for ol' Rupert. No matter how much money and power he thinks he has, it's paltry compared to the power wielded by them.