Rebekah Brooks hired accused murderer -- intentionally interfered with the investigation

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July 12, 2011, 8:06 am
Latest Updates on British Phone Hacking Scandal
By ROBERT MACKEY

...One of the more sordid allegations against Rebekah Brooks, raised in the House of Commons last week by Tom Watson, a member of Parliament (see the end of our 9:26 a.m. update), is that during her tenure as editor of The News of the World she was warned by Scotland Yard that her newspaper was interfering with a police officer’s investigation of a murder.

According to Mr. Watson’s statement in Parliament, in 2002, Ms. Brooks was told by senior police officers “that News of the World staff were guilty of interference and party to using unlawful means to attempt to discredit a police officer and his wife. She was told of actions by people she paid to expose and discredit David Cook and his wife, Jacqui Hames, so that Mr. Cook would be prevented from completing an investigation into a murder. News International was paying people to interfere with police officers and doing so on behalf of known criminals.”

The man accused of the murder Mr. Cook was investigating later worked for The News of the World as an investigator.

On Tuesday, a lawyer for the detective, Dave Cook, told Reuters that he plans to sue the publishers of The News of the World and “seek damages for both him and Jacqui Hames for hacking into his phone and for harassment...”

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/latest-updates-on-british-phone-hacking-scandal/?

[elehhhhna]

1. Next revelation; they commissioned crimes as NEWS stories.

Would you be surprised?

[Quantess]

2. At this point, no.

I wouldn't be all that surprised.

[KittyWampus]

5. Let's not forget Judith Miller at the NYTimes disseminating false info about Iraq for the NeoCons.

[myrna minx]

3. It takes your breath away. Wow. n/t

[Hotler]

4. kicking. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

6. Why does she still have a job?? Who is protecting her?

[malaise]

7. She's next on the list of casualties

It won't be long. There were calls for her resignation in the British parliament today.