UK Sky News Breaking: Rebekah Brooks arrested

[Dennis Donovan]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Rebekah-Brooks-Has-Been-Arrested-By-Police-Officers-Investigating-Phone-Hacking/Article/201107316032015?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_16032015_Rebekah_Brooks_Has_Been_Arrested_By_Police_Officers_Investigating_Phone_Hacking

Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by officers investigating allegations of corruption and phone hacking, according to Sky sources.
The 43-year-old went to a London police station by appointment and is being held on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and corruption allegations.

Operation Weeting has been launched to investigate claims that newspaper journalists hacked into the phones of high-profile figures and even victims of crime.
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Watch live here: http://tvpc.tv/Channel.php?ChannelID=4247

[KeepItReal]

1. BBC also confirms

No link yet

[HipChick]

2. Brits....3 2 1

Murdoch next please...

I don't expect her to sing...she has a multi-million deal if she just keeps her mouth shut..

[EFerrari]

5. Has to be the Brits because Holder will do nothing, imo.

[malaise]

12. James?

He will be next but watch the high profile resignations in other institutions.

[sarge43]

13. Hard to spend millions in the slam. n/t

[CJCRANE]

3. Holy sh...

This is hotting up!

[mucifer]

4. wow! We can only hope she actually serves jail time. nt

[KeepItReal]

She's in Police custody right now

eom

[Golden Raisin]

11. Actually we can hope

she sings a coloratura songbird spectacular implicating Murdoch family members directly. Members of the Praetorian Guard dutifully fall on their swords but usually the Caesars go free.

[Seedersandleechers]

6. watching it on Sky now

http://tvpc.tv/Channel.php?ChannelID=4247

[mucifer]

8. thanks for the link!

[Dennis Donovan]

9. Thanks for the link!

I'll update the OP w/ it. :hi:

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Gooder and gooder

[malaise]

10. Wolff predicted this - he also set he'd bet that James

Murdoch would also be arrested.
Looks like the Police Commissioner will be the next person to resign along with this side kick.

sp

[CJCRANE]

14. ExNOTWjourno2 on Twitter...

says "I guess Murdoch is Immune from Arrest"...

She's known for writing in code using capitals and anagrams...so I wonder if that means one of the Murdochs is MIA (that is fled the UK)..?

[sabrina 1]

22. The police commissioner has resigned, according to Sky.

I think there is a lot more to this story than just the phone hacking.

[mucifer]

15. They are saying that a Sunday arrest might be a way of stopping

her from testifying. Unsettling conspiracy theories from commentators on Sky TV

[malaise]

17. Here's the problem

The police commissioner spent five months recuperating at a health spa resort linked to Wallis

Wallis was hired as a consultant by Scotland Yard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/17/met-chief-faces-questions-spa

The Chairman of the parliamentary committee should recuse himself
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8643234/Phone-hacking-MP-John-Whittingdale-has-close-links-with-News-International.html

This is one sordid incestuous mess among the political elite and major democratic institutions.

[KeepItReal]

18. Makes sense. They have American legal people advising them

We're famous for "I cannot comment on an ongoing Police investigation"

[lpbk2713]

16. Do they wear orange jump suits in London?

I would love to see Murdoch dressed that way.
All in good time, all in good time.

[originalpckelly]

19. Bwarharhar!

Argh matey, she be walkin' the plank!

[EFerrari]

20. Greg Mitchell blogging Murdoch at The Nation:

http://www.thenation.com/blog/162044/murdoch-watch-hacking-scandal-and-beyond-blog-special-weekend-edition

[PassingFair]

21. See the MOVIE TRAILER!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFufrqhp0eE&feature=player_embedded

:rofl: