Cameron to investigate if 9/11 victims targeted

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http://news.yahoo.com/cameron-investigate-9-11-victims-targeted-113454857.html

British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed Wednesday to look into whether 9/11 victims were targeted in Britain's phone hacking scandal, as lawmakers were poised to demand that Rupert Murdoch give up his goal of taking over a lucrative U.K. broadcaster.

The fallout from a phone hacking and police bribery scandal at Murdoch's U.K. newspapers roiled unabated across Britain's political landscape Wednesday and grew near to striking its hardest blow yet at the media baron's global empire.

"There is a firestorm, if you like, that is engulfing parts of the media, parts of the police, and indeed our political system's ability to respond," Cameron said in the House of Commons. He said the focus must now be on the victims, and make sure that the guilty are prosecuted.

The Daily Mirror newspaper had claimed that some journalists had approached a private investigator in the U.S. to try to access the phone data of some of the victims of 9/11. Cameron told lawmakers Wednesday that he will look into the claims.

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1. Excellent. I also want to know; this story goes international then.

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2. some live coverage, will you take evidence from Blair's spin doctor?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/13/phone-hacking-scandal-live-coverage

1.18pm: Graham Stuart, a Conservative, says he agrees with Dennis Skinner. Stuart says he wants to get to a situation where politicians don't go to media moguls' birthday parties.

Cameron says the relationship did become unhealthy. But politicians aren't going to become monks, he says.

1.15pm: Labour's David Winnick, a member of the home affairs committee, says he was surprised that the police were having dinner with News of the World when they were investigating it. Cameron says he agrees. He says he watched some of the home affairs committee hearing yesterday and that he found it striking.

1.14pm: Cameron says the government cannot rewrite the law to stop Rupert Murdoch buying BSkyB. But parliament can express its opinion and tell News Corporation what it wants it to do.

1.09pm: Dennis Skinner, a Labour MP, says Rupert Murdoch had such power, not because of his "amazing personality", but because he owned 40% of the media. Will the inquiry say that people should only be allowed to own one paper and one broadcasting company?


(Skinner is absolutely right in what he said)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/13/phone-hacking-scandal-live-coverage

Harriet Baldwin, a Conservative, asks if the inquiry will take evidence from Lance Price, one of Tony Blair's spin doctors, who said that Rupert Murdoch felt like the 24th member of Blair's cabinet.

Cameron says Price's book about the Blair government was one of the most depressing that he has read.