Les Tricoteuses part three

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maj

they seem to be running round in circles trying to say nothing about coulson's extra income.

it's pretty damning that coulson is on record as saying he wasn't paid by anyone else whilst employed by the tories.

cameron made an epic judgment error here, but with parliament in recess and all the other huge stuff going on right now, this story is getting buried all over again.

I'm sure Tom Watson & the Guardian & co will manage to keep it bubbling along until Parliament sits again, & with a bit of luck all the other huge stuff will have quietened down by then

anyway they've got to have those committee hearings with Murdoch J & co about the Neville email - & won't Coulson & Hinton be called about the Clive Goodman letters?

I don't think this is going to 'disappear' like (I am sure) certain MPs would have wanted it to.

I think there is much more to come out, and I really do believe that certain people are making themselves look ridiculous with claims being made, then retracted, people stating "absolutely no way" was a, b or c going on, then we find out that it was not only a, b and c but also x, y and z !

IYSWIM ?!

I just wonder if Cameron will jump or be pushed ?

\link{http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/26/glenn-mulcaire-news-world-phone-hacking\morre good news}

'Mulcaire had applied for permission to appeal against the order, which was made in February, but this was denied and he was compelled to pass over the details by Friday.'

why? because Feb was before all the other stuff had come out & he was still trying to avoid implicating NI?

I wonder how they got hold of Robert Thompson's number.

hedley i'm sure in that case someone will have justified it to themselves as helping the great british public keep an eye on Thompson's movements...

And in other news - we have another arrest

Oh and I've just seen that RM was paid a $12.5m bonus this year and JM $6m.

Who says crime doesn't pay?

Anyone going to be studying their knitting needles this afternoon during the CMS Committee meeting?

poor tom crone seems to have a bit of memory loss. must be all the stress.
bless.

awwww can't believe no-one's around to chat about this!!!!
Louise Mensch just played a blinder re the Milly Dowler story suggesting that Tom Crone spiked a story that basically demonstrated that they had accessed her emails at the time

sorry - meant milly dowler's voicemails....

Missed Louise Mensch. Glad she scored a hit. I was very underwhelmed by her previous attempts.

I caught Tom Watson winding Crone up with an 'I put it to you that you a foul liar and a crook, Sir' address which didn't go far but was fun.

Also caught a bit of him delving in Crone's severance arrangements (still under negotiation) which was good.

Crone and Myler don't like James Murdoch very much any more, do they?

limited yy - that was like something out of a criminal drama/movie - i was expecting crone to jump up and yell "you can't handle the truth!"

and yy - i think some of the magic has gone from the relationship between JM and many of the people involved at NI

but did you hear what they were saying about committee members receiving a letter effectively telling them to watch out and back off?!

if bbc has the session on iplayer do watch the last 30 mins or so for Mensch's contribution - it was very much along the lines of Tom Watson's.

i think as a whole the tory members were a bit more on the ball today.

what i want to know is why did the story about Thurlbeck ordering a factory to be staked out have to come out in the WSJ? are any whistleblowers just putting distance between themselves and the action by speaking with media in the US rather than the UK? or do the us titles just have better investigative journalists at the moment??

Who said taht about the committee members and the letter? Who's it from?

I missed nearly all of it but caught something about Thurlbeck and his stake outs. I believe Neville's stakeouts to be something of a public service.

Like the time he exposed the exotic sexual arrangements of teacher and her husband at their B&B by selflessly joining in with them and then got into an unfortunate internet spat where she accused him of not settling every item on his bill.

I used to work with him. He didn't seem nearly as seedy then as now. But then I never had to share a room in a B&B with him.

Can't remember who brought it up, it was one of the male members of the committee, but he read from an anonymous letter that was sent to the committee by someone who purported to be a "senior member of NI". Telegraph kindly quoted some of it so have c&p'd here:

Sir,

For all kinds of reasons I wish to remain anonymous. I hope you will understand this.

You are dealing with highly sensitive, complex matters and incredibly powerful, well connected and ruthless individuals who will do anything to keep the real truth under wraps because the truth could well blow apart their global empire.

Normally I'd say that was a bit tin foil hattish because I don't believe in conspiracy theories.

But I'm wavering over NI, Scotland Yard, Dave, ex-jailbird private investigators, murder trials that collapse owing to police fuck ups...

James Murdoch is odd. I want to learn to talk in his accent so that I can lie my way through life.

Start by practising the following in front of a mirror:

'That's a good question...'

'I'm glad you asked that...'

then add:

'...but I'm afraid I can't speak to that.'

'... but I have no recollection of that.'

'... but I did not see that email.'

'... but that happened before I became Chief Executive.'

Try to keep a straight face. This will be difficult for anyone with a modicum of shame.

limited you are so right - there is no shame for these people in lying and claiming they don't remember various things, when it is quite obvious to the rest of us they were involved/complicit/aware.

Apparently, there has been another arrest in the early hours of this morning; 35 year old man, taken to a police station in north london.

Where is RB? I think that I read that RM had advised her to go travelling.
Who does JM remind me of? Some science fiction character from childhood?
Max Wall?

Someone from the hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy?

re: Hitchhikers - if you're talking mad americanised accent do you mean zaphod beeblebrox? the one with multiple heads? that would fit - he might only know what one head was hearing at any given time and the different brains may not share memories. so obviously one head was in these meetings with crone et al and the other appeared in front of the select committee

anyway - interesting that it is a Times footie correspondent who has been arrested today....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14917056

Above article is about the enquiry, and the people who have been granted 'core participant status' - basically a lot of the high profile targets of the hacking carried out i.e. Millie Dowler's family, Hugh Grant, various MPs etc. They may have some scope to put questions to those giving evidence to the enquiry (under the watchful eye of Lord Leveson). It's an interesting list...