Posted on 07/17/2011 6:10:02 AM PDT by Cardhu
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested in connection with an investigation into phone hacking and bribery.
The 43-year-old was arrested by appointment by Operation Weeting police at a London police station.
Met Police said she is currently still in custody.
This is the 10th arrest made by police investigating hacking allegations by the News of the World newspaper.
She was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption allegations.
The Operation Weeting team is conducting the current investigation into phone hacking.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
If it results in the breakup of his media empire and more decentralization of the world’s press, then that would be a good thing, IMHO. It should bother people that a good percentage of the world press is centralized under one person.
Here is a redhead for you -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Audrey_Hollander_AVN_Awards_2006_crop.jpg
I’m curious - so, reporters actually hacked into telephone communication, sort of like a wire tap - with the permission of those in charge? I’m just wondering how they thought that they would get away with such a thing - for long. It just seems so stupid and criminal to me - a newspaper and one owned by Murdock! YIKES!
I’d say, even Obama is not that stupid. Of course, I don’t know for sure.
well done, thanks!
I am sure that Anderson Cooper will showcase this 'saga' in between his pumping of the arab spring and homosexual agenda.
However, I am not interested really, and it appears to me that the most interested are leftists foaming at the mouth hoping they can take down the message by attacking the owner and employees of the messenger. You can leave me out of the 'us' category.
Now there are two reasons why News Corporation and News International were so keen to protect Rebekah Brooks.
First is that there is probably no one involved in the business, whose surname isn't Murdoch, who is as close to Rupert Murdoch, News Corp's chairman, as is Rebekah Brooks.
When they are together, he displays a conspicuous affection for her. "Some would say he is almost as close to Rebekah as he is to his children" said one of their colleagues.
And then there is a second reason why her arrest will be a blow both to Rupert Murdoch and to his son, James Murdoch, her immediate boss as head of News Corp's European operations.
Ignorance does not protect
Her ignorance of what happened at the News of the World reinforced their claims that they too had no knowledge of the alleged scale of abuses by the Sunday tabloid, which was closed down only a week ago.
The importance of today's events is that her claimed ignorance did not prevent her being arrested.
The other point about her arrest is that it is something of a shock to the political establishment, since she was on unusually good and friendly terms with three successive prime ministers, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and the current tenant of 10 Downing Street, David Cameron.
If, as seems likely, her arrest prevents her from giving public evidence on Tuesday to MPs on the culture, media and sport Commons committee, her many friends in high places may be slightly relieved.
In the current climate of criticism of News International, there will be quite a few powerful people who would be pleased if the brightest possible media light isn't shone on their close and personal relationship with Mrs Brooks.
“On both sides of the Atlantic the radical leftist media is really pushing this story to try and ruin Fox News and the more conservative press in London.”
People need to understand that there is massive revulsion from the UK public at what it turns out these guys have been up to over the last few years. Yep, some lefty outfits are using this opportunity to stick the knife in - however
*every* moral person, regardless of their personal politics, should surely be horrified at the thought of a dead girl’s voicemail messages being read AND DELETED, giving her parents hope that she’s still alive, or the families of dead soldiers being targeted, or the victims of the UK’s 7/7 bombings being targeted... the list goes on and on.
Anyone that criticised the tabloids were targeted by journalists and PIs, including normal members of the public, the police and politicians. Bear in mind also that the Sun, who apparently were so strongly supportive of a “paedo tracking” law being created in the UK (similar to the one in the US, Megan’s Law IIRC?), have also in the past ran salivating features on 15 year old girls being lined up to show their chests on Page 3 when they finally hit age 16.
If that’s the message then I rather think that the messenger SHOULD be taken down!
It’s only now that the British public have finally found something that they can all agree is absolutely indefensible (not that some talking heads aren’t trying) that our fawning moronic government have suddenly found enough dutch courage to bite the hand that feeds - they know full well that there’s no hiding from this come election time, and about time too. Murdoch has been king-maker for far too long in the UK, and it’s high time that our politicians do what’s right for the country
instead of Murdoch’s business empire.
*What is this and why is it a big deal? *
Wade deeper into a murky world.
http://www.abeldanger.net/2011/07/matrix-5-lesbians-pki-canary-wharf.html
Tenacity required.
Why should you care ??!!!!
Well, huuuuh, errrr,....free speech,2012,Fox news,Obama...?
Come back on earth ,please !
Hope that Murdochs have heavy munitions and will unload soon on the libtard thugs on both side of the Atlantic
Oh my god, the Briddish are the Briddish are coming....’creeping British influence’.
As far the US is concerned, do you realise how stupid that sounds?.
And hopefully you have read the other posters who have explained to you who Brooks is and what she and her cohorts have done. And why it might have an influence in the US.
“They are really bad people who should be punished” ?
Oh well, so you already know the end of the story? The inquiry and the trial are over and BBC , CNN....already told the sentence ? Allright....Scarrying
No, we don’t know the end of the story - I personally doubt that much will change, but here’s hoping.
End of the day, hacking a dead girl’s phone is just plan *wrong*, never mind illegal. Deleting voicemail messages left by frantic friends and family is just plain *wrong*. Hacking the phones of families that recently lost relatives in the UK 7/7 bombings is just plain *wrong*. This isn’t a left / right issue, it’s a simple question of what’s right and what’s very very much wrong.
How would you feel if it does turn out that these guys hacked the phones of 9/11 victims? Could anyone seriously defend that kind of behaviour?
BTW - what does ‘scarrying’ mean?
And what about BBC’s lies, tricks and treacheries ?
BBC is openly spreading is venom since years and decades...
There are crimes and crimes ! All the crimes must be judged but only crimes and their real authors.
Liberals are used to popular “justice” with no trial.
I’m so glad that the right could provide this little tempest in a teapot in order to get a REAL scandal, “fast and furious”, off the lamestream media’s unwanted, “dragged to” news cycle.
“And what about BBC’s lies, tricks and treacheries?”
What about them? Start a thead to discuss that topic if you want, otherwise I’m more than happy to include the BBC within the scope of this thread if you have information indicating that they actively tampered with the voicemails of a dead teenager?
“There are crimes and crimes ! All the crimes must be judged but only crimes and their real authors.
Liberals are used to popular “justice” with no trial.”
What? What? What? 3 non-sequiturs in a row - well done!
I repeat - this is not a political left / right point. This is a moral right / wrong point.
“Scarrying”, i meant frightening(i am french)
It’s frightening to see people making the sentence before the trial,and following like herds OF CATTLE the advices and judgements of some big MSM with an obvious lack of independance of thinking....
I say that this story is emphasized or fueled and extended on both part of the Atlantic and that there are elections soon in 2012...
What happens in UK and more in USA is concerning Europe...
What is happening in the arab world with Obama’s benediction is hiting and will touch France badly...
What are you talking about, sentencing before the trial? Paul McMullen ADMITTED (seeing as we’re using caps to make a point) that he both hacked into Milly Dowler’s phone and deleted voicemail messages, and that he’d done the same many, many times at the behest of his masters.
If you want to call the vast majority of the UK public ‘CATTLE’ for being absolutely horrified at what has been going on, then a/ more fool you as you have absolutely no idea of the mood here right now and b/ we don’t need to exchange views any further.
In fact, if my disapproving of an amoral scumbag hacking into a dead girl’s phone makes me CATTLE then all I can say is: mooooooo.
Sorry keep your fake “moral”.
You obviously don’t know what the world “moral” mean .
It implies truth and justice. Does this sound familiar for you ?
Fake moral + political tricks this is typically liberal.
Speaking endlessly of freedom and democracy but doing the contrary...Sane people know that deeds are way better than words.
The BBC should be investigated for fake journalism, political and intellectual bias,....It is not another topic
London Met Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson,, has resigned claiming that he had no knowledge of his police being bribed (corrupted by journalists).
Moo.
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