We should assume Newscorp perverted justice for now – and move on to new suspects
I don’t doubt that 200,000 emails being deleted by Newscorp is an interesting (and probable) confirmation of dirty work; but it isn’t a story in the journalistic sense of the word.
Rather, it is evidence of a possibility. So for the police (I would suggest) the thing they should be doing as I write is raiding the offices of the Mirror first, followed swiftly by the Telegraph and Mail, with a view to total seizure of the email comms systems. Because there is a faint possibility that those horses have not as yet disappeared over the horizon. Piers Morgan is in America of course, but he’ll come back without too much trouble: after all, by the end of August he’s going to have a lot of time on his hands.
As for the Murdoch emails, two things need to be checked before everyone goes off half-cocked. First, the Met needs to check email deletion in the period before May 2010 to the present. If that shows a similar level of deletion – during a time period when the Wapping Liars thought they were inviolate – then this may turn out to be a non-story. Or more evidence of cover-up. The point is, without trend data, the deletions don’t prove anything....read more at the SLOG
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