The Official Newscorp/UK end of season finale/Rebekah Brooks did 9/11 thread

Miskiw arrested

Also via reports on Twitter: "Police communications chief Dick Ferdocio on leave pending investigation re hacking/NI"

Colin Myler and Tom Crone likely to be recalled to Commons media select committee in September, chair John Whittingdale says.

^^^ bombshell

So a summary so far: The select committee says the fresh evidence they have received in relation to the News of the World phone-hacking scandal is "devastating" and that James Murdoch is "likely" to be recalled for a second grilling.

The former editor of the Sunday tabloid, Colin Myler, and the paper's head of the legal affairs have provided more evidence to support their allegations that Murdoch 'misled' the committee about his knowledge of phone-hacking at the News of the World.

But Watson has hinted at explosive new evidence from the former royal editor Clive Goodman, who was jailed back in 2007 in relation to phone-hacking offences.

tweetsplosion of hints that the guardian will be dropping a "bombshell" around 1pm..

12.02pm: tom_watson has just tweeted this:
Documents submitted to DCMS select committee will be published at 12.59pm. On dcms web site. Lobby- I'll be in grimond room at 1pm.

Yeah I don't think anything we've heard so far today qualifies as a "bombshell".

SO FARRRRRRRRRRRRR

apart from the milly dowler news it's mostly been a steady accumulation rather than bombshells. what a weird summer.

heard a little something about how the 'bombshell' relates to JM, and how his alibi doesn't hold up, because he's a vampire, and b/c vampires can't be out doing business during business hours

Oooh, I'm like a little child contemplating his first Christmas

I think the Sara Payne & 7/7 families and war dead families all count as bombshells - it's just that by then they were all seen as shockwaves from the main event.

McCanns as well iirc?

xxxp

I think I'm going to be consistently disappointed until the point at which something of substance incrimiates Cameron, if that ever happens. Murdoch Jr will do for now though.

Don't think any concrete McCann revelations have come out yet?

won't today's thing be just a specific regarding myles showing the evidence to JM? like not that it's not a bombshell! but that it's something that we can presumably predict? like i got the impression that this is re: the committee appearances rather than the larger scandal

Disgraced NoW correspondent said hacking was done with 'the full knowledge and support' of senior journalists

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/16/phone-hacking-now-reporter-letter

there it is

Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and their former editor Andy Coulson all face embarrassing new allegations of dishonesty and cover-up after the publication of an explosive letter written by the News of the World's disgraced royal correspondent, Clive Goodman.

In the letter, which was written four years ago but published only on Tuesday, Goodman claims that phone hacking was "widely discussed" at editorial meetings at the paper until Coulson himself banned further references to it; that Coulson offered to let him keep his job if he agreed not to implicate the paper in hacking when he came to court; and that his own hacking was carried out with "the full knowledge and support" of other senior journalists, whom he named.

The claims are acutely troubling for the prime minister, David Cameron, who hired Coulson as his media adviser on the basis that he knew nothing about phone hacking. And they confront Rupert and James Murdoch with the humiliating prospect of being recalled to parliament to justify the evidence which they gave last month on the aftermath of Goodman's allegations. In a separate letter, one of the Murdochs' own law firms claim that parts of that evidence were variously "hard to credit", "self-serving" and "inaccurate and misleading".

Two versions of Goodman's letter were provided to the committee. One which was supplied by Harbottle and Lewis has been redacted to remove the names of journalists, at the request of police. The other, which was supplied by News International, has been redacted to remove not only the names but also all references to hacking being discussed in Coulson's editorial meetings and to Coulson's offer to keep Goodman on staff if he agreed not to implicate the paper.

nice try

loool

murdoch jr's strategy of dumping on the lawyers in his select committee appearance is starting to look like a big mistake.

shafted by their own law firm :-)

not bad bombshellwise, in my opinion: it doesn't go further outwards, of course, it exactly re-targets the flimsily stabilised line the defendants were hoping to stage their defence at

well done especially on this letter being four years old

and haha "hard to credit"

Someone really needs to do an animated gif of that clip of Kilroy-Silk from "Shafted"

not bad bombshellwise, in my opinion: it doesn't go further outwards, of course, it exactly re-targets the flimsily stabilised line the defendants were hoping to stage their defence at

Les Hinton, who was sent a copy of the letter but failed to pass it to police and who then led a cast of senior Murdoch personnel in telling parliament that they believed Andy Coulson knew nothing about the interception of the voicemail of public figures and that Goodman was the only journalist involved.

redacting documents seems such a weird practice. you feel like in a hundred years time it could be looked back on as a hilarious hallmark of old-style corruption, that survived by virtue of its impressive name & by being done w/the imprimatur of huge companies or agencies. it so often seems to be just agenda-furthering scribbling.

sheer criminality

think we can all agree on rubber bullets for these guys

send them to a desert island with the records they pretended to like

Take away their tax benefits.

kick wendi deng out of her council house

mindless, just mindless. Send in the army, it's the only language these people understand.

sheer criminality

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:22 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

I lol'd

They ought to be conscripted into National Fat Cat Service.

Fat Cats get enough Service as it is!

national lol cat disservice more like

and with that "bombshell" i must return to writing this review!

i can has incriminating documents redacted?

is this the general uk politics thread now? this has probably been linked on ten different threads today but it's worth posting here in case some of you missed it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

cheers, Matt.

i got confused with the UK season finale having so many false endings.

My farmer colleague (imagine a Doctor Who obsessive who resembles John Peel) LOVES the whole 'UK end of season finale' as a concept.

doesnt surprise me, farmers love tv

loooool

IPCC clears Sir Paul Stephenson and three other senior Met officers of misconduct relating to hacking

The IPCC is very "efficient" when it needs to be, isn't it? Amazing.

They've moved from "innocent even if you are filmed lumping a bystander and booting him to the ground" to "only if you are filmed lumping a bystander and booting him to the ground" in recent years.

missed a 'guilty' out but you know.

Two versions of Goodman's letter were provided to the committee. One which was supplied by Harbottle and Lewis has been redacted to remove the names of journalists, at the request of police. The other, which was supplied by News International, has been redacted to remove not only the names but also all references to hacking being discussed in Coulson's editorial meetings and to Coulson's offer to keep Goodman on staff if he agreed not to implicate the paper.

nice try

― joe, Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha this was one of the redactions.

The decision is inconsistent. because [ redacted ] and other members of staff were carrying out the same illegal procedures…. This practice was widely discussed in the daily editorial conference, until explicit reference to it was banned by the Editor. As far as I am aware, no other member of staff has faced disciplinary action, much less dismissal.