Paul Dacre at the Leveson Inquiry

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I was going to add comment to the other thread I started here at the beginning of the inquiry but purely for the comedy value alone, I felt this warranted it's own, shiney new thread. The above isn't word for word, just the guardian blog, but there are some crackers in there, and I haven't even got to the end.

Did you know, criticism of the Daily Mail stems from a lack of understanding on how journalism works? Next time you see a thread on here quoting the Daily Mail, just remember, we just don't understand how journalism works. Feast your eyes on the pearls of wisdom dished out by the one and only Mr Dacre, and enjoy...

The news earlier said the committee report is still in it's draft stages, due out in 3/4 weeks - what is known is it's highly critical of James Murdoch's evidence given to the committee. Not exactly 'news' given that we all watched him try and bullshit his way out of any responsibility for what went on. Hence him hot-footing it to the US.

its also been reported that brooks' phone was also hacked at least twice a week when she was ed at the sun newspaper

Somehow I can't muster much sympathy.

How did I miss that? I had it on the Parliament Channel from noon until about 5pm with just a few breaks when the lunacy of Bill Cash was getting too much.

its also been reported that brooks' phone was also hacked at least twice a week when she was ed at the sun newspaper

If I was Mulcaire I'd want a few insurance policies. I guess that might be why he's managed to convince NI to pay his legal expenses after their wrigglings.

i know, but when you learn that the police told her, her phone was hacked by Glenn Mulcaire in 2006...

so back in 2006 she knew phone hacking was going on at notw

www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/29/rebekah-brooks-phone-hacked-sun

Thanks for the Hansard link Blackout, it's fascinating reading.

I knew that the policeman suspected of involvement in the killing had been put in charge of the murder investigation and later retired from the police and took over the victim's old job. Tom Watson also lays out how corrupt all the subsequent Met investigations were until Dave Cook was involved. What's mentioned in passing is that Roy Clark who was the Met's Head of Anti-Corruption carried out a secret investigation, which was also unsatisfactory. He later became Director of Ops at the Police Complaints Commission which I know from speaking to the Morgan family, did all it could to hinder the murder investigation.

What was new to me was the Daniel Morgan had approached the NOTW a week before his murder, to act as a whistleblower over serious Met police corruption. Did this act sign his own death warrant?

Morgan apparently approached Alex Marunchak at the NOTW. Marunchak knew and later employed Jonathan Rees, the suspected killer, as a NOTW hacker. Rees' company paid off Alex Marunchak's debts. Marunchak was one of the NOTW staff who organised the harassment of Dave Cook and Jackie Hames when Cook was investigating the Morgan murder. Marunchak was simultaneously working for the Met police as a translator.

I'm gobsmacked.

Bloody hell black

If there's any justice Marunchak and that fucking clown Hayman ought to quaking in their beds tonight. Brooks should be a bit nervous too.

how was this man ever employed on the right side of the law?

Here's the new link to Tom Watson's statement, now the debate has been moved to Hansard's historical record rather than live feed.

so we now know Yates liked to be wine and dined

also a 32 year old woman has been arrested...

Yates isn't coming across as particularly bright I have to say. His reasoning behind each and every decision/action/public statement just paints him as at best, a bit dim and naive, clearly unable to see the bigger picture. His description of Nick Davies being a challenging individual I'll bet he was! And all that wining and dining too - this email Think John Yates could be crucial here, have you spoken to him, really need an exclusive splash line, time to call in all those bottles of champagne. kind of explains how NI/NOTW saw the benefits to these 'meetings' but poor Mr Yates didn't see it like that at all. And all that digging and digging he did, trying to find evidence of John Prescott's phone being hacked. Just couldn't find it at all.

Oh dear. Downing Street has admitted that David Cameron could have ridden on Rebekah Brooks's ex-police horse

Dare I say it ?

DC could have 'ridden' RB ? (or vice versa)

Marunchak has responded to Watson's comments yesterday.

He says: "Watson's comments about my professional dealings with murder victim Daniel Morgan are absolutely untrue."

Oh, that answers everything then doesn't it?

full article here

That's the thing with dead people isn't it ? They can't answer back.

Squeal, piggies, squeal.

Maranchuk: 'I was told to cover the Morgan murder story as the News of the World?s crime reporter. Then news editor Bob Warren told me: ?Find out who this man is for a start. We?ve never heard of him.?'

Why would an editor bother saying that? Surely "we've never heard of them" is true of almost every murder victim?

I find myself strangely unconvinced by Maranchuk's, ahem, charm and eloquence...

I find myself strangely unconvinced by Maranchuk's, ahem, charm and eloquence...

ditto.

I missed this today. I agree Yates is a dim puppy and greedy like the rest of them.

I was amazed at his continued rise while head of the Met's Celebrity Squad and the stunning failure of investigations and trials under his watch: Paul Burrell, Cash for Honours, sending officers business class round the world to find out the vital news whether Kate Moss did coke or not. Bet the tabloids were keen on that prosecution.

They couldn't prove it. Funny that, isn't it? Someone snorts white powder and there is no evidence to show what it was yet the Met spends a fortune deciding that er, we can't be sure what it was. It's a wonder Yates didn't launch a worldwide business class hunt for Al Pacino on the grounds that he buried his face in a ton of white powder in Scarface.

He did manage to nail the Coughing Major on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, so credit where credit's due.

It was almost as if he was being rewarded for his lack of results

All the while he drew fantastic press from the Sun, News of the World and Richard Littledick. I wonder why?

limited you old cynic

i want to know how the hell he got that job? his memory is shit and he really doesn't know a lot

Oi! Not so much of the old

apologies! limited you cynic

rumour is rupert murdoch will be called to leveson

Not too sure what that will do here. He'll just have trouble remembering his own name, let alone any detail about anything any of his staff has done, or what he knew about hacking. He's already played the almost senile Murdoch at the select committee, the inquiry won't suddenly spur him to unburden his conscience. Still, it would be worth watching him squirm as Jay picks apart his bullshit statement.

oh i would pay to watch Jay and Murdoch

and did i hear right that andy culson also knew about hacking in 2006?