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New thread to continue from God those NoW journos were utter scum weren't they?

Sobering article yesterday morn by Robert Peston: "Who is more powerful - Murdoch or Parliament?"

He suggests Murdoch may try to claim that the parliamentary debates etc have created bias, and mean he will not get a fair hearing from the judicial enquiry, etc.

Ie taking "Be ye ever so high, the law is above ye" and turning it on parliament: "The law you wrote at my request allows me to do this, you are powerless before it."

I think down the line we may start hearing how disgraceful it is that politicians think they can interfere with purely business decisions. And that of course that nice Ms Brooks can't receive a fair trial when the country has been so biased by irresponsible reporting...

At least RB will turn up in Parliament next week. Ridiculous that JM is trying to find a suitable window in his calendar before he can deign to grace the Commons with his presence.

From the Guardian:

12.03pm:To recap: News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has agreed to give evidence to MPs over the phone hacking scandal next week, it was announced today.

But the Commons culture select committee has issued a summons to media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son James after they said they were not available to attend the session.
The younger Murdoch had offered to appear on 10 August instead.

It is not clear whether the committee will be able to compel the men to face questioning as they are US citizens.

The de Menezes revelation was always coming....

www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2010/12/andy-coulson-andy-hayman/

Andy Hayman was in charge of the Specialist Ops leading the investigations into the 7/7 Bombings and de Menezes was shot on his watch. When you look at Andy Coulson's NoTW coverage of the de Menezes shooting you start to think about how much their 'friendship' covered.

This just gets worse and worse!

marking my place...

The letter from the De Menezes family is on the Guardian live blog.

I imagine Andy Hayman will be back in front of the committee very soon. His pantomime denial the other day was dreadful.

Is Yates resigning? Twitter says yes, others say no and MET says "No Comment"

I heard they were washing their hair.

I'm so glad that poisonous dwarf Neil Wallis has had his collar felt today.

I hope they hook it over a coat peg and leave him dangling.

When they say 'hacked', what exactly do they mean?
Voicemails only? Contacts? all conversations listened to?
Could someone explain?

I know someone who thinks she has been hacked, crime victim in high profile case

:(

I think that if I have your mob (where I would have got it from is a different matter) that I could ring it, get on to ansaphone, press 0000, which would probably your default session, before people were clued up to this, and then listen to your messages, and delete them if I wanted to. Correct me if I am wrong.

Did your friend change her default 0000 pin to her personal pin? (don't have mobile; going on what I read about the royal mobs being hacked when the royal correspondent went to prison in 2005).

Ciao tutti... marking my place in the new thread. I'm having... i'm not sure this is the right word but erm... fun trying to work out just how much worse this can get. Milly Dowler, 7/7 victims families, DeMenezes family, 9/11 victims families? Did they seriously try and get hold of voicemail messages left by people in the towers?

Did they seriously try and get hold of voicemail messages left by people in the towers?

I'd have thought so. But I think 'worse to come' means 'something I could go to prison for' rather a sudden attack of conscience.

rather than I mean

That's just another rumour... along with trying to hack voicemail of 9/11 victims families that they attempted to listen to messages left by people trapped in the towers. To be honest it wouldn't surprise me now.

nothing would surprise me any more about this. what does concern me is that no one seems to have impounded all the NOTW email addresses or technology equipment, leaving NI wide open to delete at will.

I know it's a crime for them to tamper with potential and future evidence, but that's hardly going to stop them trying when it could be much worse charges if they find things on their PCs.

any guesses on what the PI front page will be tomorrow?

The Murdochs have apparently decided they DO have room in their diaries next week after all.

Now, how do i clack these needles together, again?

I so hate Keith Vaz. But needs must... Imagine how Rupert will feel being talked down to by a supercilious slimeball. I guess James will be used to it

In out in out, shake it all about...

Yy to Keith Vaz twitchery! And yet.

Headmasterful with Outraged of the Yard yesterday.

I loathe Vaz, but somehow, being harrumphed at by the atrocious slimeball seems like a kind of poetic justice for this parade of dishonest bastards.

Mixed slime...mmmmm....it's like a great cauldron of it.