CNN Host and Ex-Tabloid Editor Is Reluctantly Dragged Into Phone Scandal

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CNN Host and Ex-Tabloid Editor Is Reluctantly Dragged Into Phone Scandal
By DON VAN NATTA Jr. and RAVI SOMAIYA
LONDON — It was perhaps inevitable that the phone hacking accusations in Britain would cross the Atlantic and reach Piers Morgan, the flamboyant former Fleet Street editor who is now the host of “Piers Morgan Tonight” on CNN.

James Hipwell, a former journalist at The Daily Mirror, a tabloid edited by Mr. Morgan until 2004, now says that phone hacking was “endemic” at the paper. “Piers was extremely hands-on as an editor,” Mr. Hipwell, 45, told the British newspaper The Independent in an interview published Saturday. “I can’t say 100 percent that he knew about it. But it was inconceivable he didn’t.”

In an e-mail interview, Mr. Morgan struck back at that allegation and other suggestions by members of Parliament and a widely read political blog that his reporters had landed scoops at The Daily Mirror based on phone hacking. Members of Parliament have also said that Mr. Morgan should be questioned.

“I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone,” Mr. Morgan said. “I am not aware, and have never seen evidence to suggest otherwise, that any Mirror story published during my tenure was obtained from phone hacking.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/europe/24hacking.html?pagewanted=print

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Anyone who has hacked or tapped should be exposed nt

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3. and prosecuted. palins hacker got a year

The former college student who guessed his way into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 U.S. presidential election was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Friday.

David Kernell's lawyers had been hoping for probation only; federal prosecutors had asked for an 18-month sentence.

The judge in the case recommended that Kernell serve his time at a halfway house rather than federal prison, but that decision is up to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Following his one-year sentence, Kernell must serve three years' probation.

Kernell, a 20-year-old college student at the time of the incident, got into Palin's [e-mail] account by guessing answers to the security questions used by Yahoo to reset the account's password. In chat logs, Kernell said he was hoping to find information that would "derail" her 2008 vice presidential election campaign.


http://www.pcworld.com/article/210613/sarah_palins_hacker_sentenced.html

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. Absolutely. nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Log out of your email and call a good lawyer, Piers.

Tasty, tasty schadenfreude. :D

[chalky]

4. But...but...all he did was tell people how to change their PIN numbers!

n/t

[murielm99]

6. I read right here on DU that he bragged about hacking

in his book. There were direct quotes.

He is a horse's ass. He even LOOKS like a horse's ass.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Hey Piers, I got a section of violins ready for you

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