Scotland Yard covered up evidence of potentially 4,000 people hacked by Murdoch papers

[kpete]

For nearly four years they lay piled in a Scotland Yard evidence room, six overstuffed plastic bags gathering dust and little else.

Inside was a treasure-trove of evidence: 11,000 pages of handwritten notes listing nearly 4,000 celebrities, politicians, sports stars, police officials and crime victims whose phones may have been hacked by The News of the World, a now defunct British tabloid newspaper.

Yet from August 2006, when the items were seized, until the autumn of 2010, no one at the Metropolitan Police Service, commonly referred to as Scotland Yard, bothered to sort through all the material and catalog every page, said former and current senior police officials.

MORE:
http://www.americablog.com/2011/07/scotland-yard-covered-up-evidence-of.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/world/europe/17police.html?_r=2

[Bluenorthwest]

1. I want full disclousure here as well as in the UK

of everyone they so much as tried to hack or otherwise meddle with.

[midnight]

4. Remember that Patriot Act.... People were complaining their

phone conversations were not private.... Bush told them to prove it.... I think the point of contention was that complaintee would receive NO discovery....

[myrna minx]

2. K&R n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

3. I guess the UK is not about to let the US get ahead in the corruption races