Monday, February 13, 2012

#TheSun : MP Tom Watson Responds To Kavanagh

It is no surprise that after 34 years of loyal service to News International, Trevor Kavanagh is trying to persuade people to think the police, goaded by “witchunters”, are behaving heavy handedly.

In listening to his pleading, let us not forget that at the High Court last week, his employers, News Group Newspapers, were forced to admit that executives and staff had lied to the police, misled the public and destroyed evidence.

Then last week the Metropolitan police admitted to the court that it had not done enough to get to the bottom of the hacking scandal at Wapping.

So the notion that the police might politely ring up to make an appointment to see a Sun journalist for a civilised chat is far-fetched....read more

http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2012/02/a-response-to-trevor-kavanagh/