Phone hacking: Met police put pressure on Guardian over coverage

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) Scotland Yard's most senior officers tried to convince the Guardian during two private meetings that its coverage of phone hacking was exaggerated and incorrect without revealing they had hired Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World, as an adviser.

The first meeting in December 2009, which included the Metropolitan police commissioner Paul Stephenson, was two months after Wallis was employed by the Yard as a public relations consultant.

Wallis, 60, who was deputy to Andy Coulson, the NoW editor at the time of the phone hacking, was arrested on Thursday as part of Operation Weeting. Coulson has also been arrested and bailed.

Theresa May, the home secretary, has referred Scotland Yard's hiring of Wallis to the judicial inquiry on phone hacking which will be chaired by Lord Justice Leveson. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/phone-hacking-met-police-guardian

[malaise]

1. Which is why I said yesterday that

Cameron is in serious political trouble

[glinda]

3. I hope. He hurts the organics industry and a few other things.

[malaise]

5. I detest the sleaze bag

Anyone who hired Coulson as media adviser is just another scumbag seeking power.

[myrna minx]

2. K&R n/t

[salin]

4. insidious.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Britain needs their version of a Special Counsel

to investigate this, as does the US.