Brooks just LIED!

[Aerows]

OMG. She said that he wasn't paid, while James Murdoch already established that he had.

:popcorn:

[Dappleganger]

1. It was only a matter of time.

One lie always leads to another.

[Aerows]

2. They got caught up in their own lies

LOL :popcorn:

[flamingdem]

3. Awesome. This was the point of the hearings .. nt

[elleng]

4. 'He' who?

[Aerows]

5. Almost too many names to keep track of

But I'll have that guy's name in a second. Thanks for kicking it to the top :)

Edit: So much is rolling out, it's hard to keep track

[Bumblebee]

6. I believe these were about two different events so the excitement may be premature...

[Aerows]

8. I've watched all day

so, no, they aren't.

Under British law, statements before a committee of Parliament, or before a House of Commons, and judged as sacrosanct, in that, you can't change your mind. That's why everyone was stuttering.

[Bumblebee]

9. they were talking about two different things -- that's what I meant by "events"

and, actually, two different people. I do think the thread misstates what really happened and therefore raises false expectations

[Aerows]

14. James and Rebekah

won't be sharing a cell, but based upon today's testimony, and UK law, it will take contortions of the highest order to keep them both out of jail.

[gratuitous]

7. Unlike a congressional hearing in the U.S.

There will surely be someone in this hearing who remembers what was said before. Here, whatever is said goes into a compartment, totally isolated from anything that went before or that comes after, so if James testifies "X" and Rebekah says "not X," nobody here would call out that little contradiction.

[GreenTea]

10. Murdoch, Brooks & company sounds just like the lies and false promises of British Petroleum (BP)

and of course in the end it was all spin, lies and empty promises - and a polluted dead zone in the Gulf by these greedy lying corporatist & the republicans who protected them.

[malaise]

11. They all lied

and some will pay the price

[provis99]

12. her opening statement was a pack of lies.

From her phony apology, to her claim that her lawyer was only there to "smooth things along".

[Aerows]

13. No Kidding!

I view anyone trying to smooth this over with extreme suspicion. She flat out said they did bribes.

What part of "sent to jail, with good reason" do these people not understand?

James will be joining her within the week.

[damntexdem]

15. He said, she said?

Well, just assume that they're both lying.

[emcguffie]

16. for those of us who did not see it, please --

-- Who is the "he"? And what was he paid for, or not paid for?

Thanks.