#HackGate #LesHinton Faces MP's AND Cannot Remember .....

Phone hacking: Les Hinton is facing a second questioning by MPs. Photograph: PA

2.12pm: Les Hinton has completed his third appearance before the Commons committee investigating phone hacking at the News of the World. Dan Sabbagh has the analysis below, but here is the roundup:

• Les Hinton said he saw "no reason" why James Murdoch should resign over the scandal.

• Hinton said that he hasn't talked to the Metropolitan police about the phone hacking scandal and that he has not been questioned by Viet Dinh, the News Corp man in charge of the internal phone hacking inquiry.

• He said he was never aware of any payments to police or other private detectives working for News International.

• He said he became aware of the "For Neville" email after the Gordon Taylor settlement was revealed by the Guardian in July 2009.

• Hinton said he was "not personally involved" in the internal investigations into phone hacking at News International when he was executive chairman....read more

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/oct/24/phone-hacking-les-hinton#block-32

#Hackgate : #Murdoch Urged To Sell Off Newspapers By Top News Corp. Shareholders!

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"I'd like for them to sell all the newspaper businesses," Kevin Holt, a senior fund manager at Invesco, told The Sunday Telegraph. "It's a digital world now and the competitive advantage that newspapers had has been competed away."

The call from Invesco comes as News Corp defeated an attempt on Friday by investors to oust Rupert Murdoch, his sons, James and Lachlan, and several other directors from the board of a company whose papers include The Sun in Britain and The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post in America.

While the rebellion at News Corp's meeting in Los Angeles was thwarted, the scale of the protest at a company dominated by the Murdoch family will not become clear until the voting figures are revealed later this week.

Invesco, which owns about 14m of the key B News Corp shares that carry voting rights, declined to say how it cast its votes on the re-election of a board heavily criticised for its response to the phone-hacking scandal that erupted over the summer.

"Was I disappointed with the UK situation? Yes, for sure," Mr Holt said. "But we don't own the stock because of the UK newspaper print business. We own it despite the UK newspapers." ..read more

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#Hackgate #Foxgate #Werrity : Implications !

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Please Read (then think about the implications) #Foxgate #Hackgate MI6 spoke to Adam Werritty after trips: The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/17/mi6-adam-wrritty-trips

MI6 spoke to Adam Werritty after trips

Secret intelligence service was keen to find out what information 'adviser' was privy to after trips to Middle East

MI6 was keen to debfried Werritty after meetings with Israelis and Iranians

MI6 called in Adam Werritty, Liam Fox's close friend and self-styled adviser, after his visits to Israel and meetings with Iranians.

Britain's secret intelligence service debriefed Werritty, in effect a freelance operator, as it was keen to know what information he could pass on.

Officials have said that the former defence secretary's friend did not see any British government classified information or documents.

What MI6 was interested in was any privileged information from foreign countries Werritty had access to.

The Foreign Office was concerned about what officials have described as Fox and Werritty's attempts to conduct an alternative foreign policy.

The FO traditionally has been uneasy about MI6's role, an attitude which Werritty's meetings with the intelligence agency is only likely to have exacerbated.

An Iranian activist sympathetic to the opposition who lives in exile in London has told the Guardian he met Werritty. "We met each other five times in total. He wanted to meet me for coffee and discuss Iran and the regime in Tehran. He introduced himself as a close friend of Liam Fox but did not say he was an adviser."

The Iranian activist said: "Werritty was silent most of the times and was more listening than speaking about Iran.

"I had an impression that Werrity was working on writing a report about Iran, it was difficult to judge his knowledge of Iran. He used to ask many questions about the access of people inside Iran to satellite channels and their problems with jammed signals."

Satellite channels, including Farsi-language service of the BBC is blocked inside Iran but many watch it through illegal rooftop dishes. Iran occasionally disrupts its programmes by jamming satellite signals

.Another Iranian based in the US met met Werritty in March 2009 in New York. "The person who introduced me to Werritty said he was working on a report about Iran. He was introduced to me as an influential person with good access to British authorities, therefore I was asked to share my views with him about Iran" and tell him what I think about the current situation,"she said.

In May 2009, Werritty arranged a meeting in Portcullis House, a parliamentary building next to the Commons, between Fox and an Iranian lobbyist with close links to President Ahmadinejad's regime.

In February Werritty arranged a dinner with Fox, Britain's ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, and seniorpolitical figures – believed to include Israeli intelligence officers – during an Israeli security conference in Herzliya, where sanctions against Iran were discussed.

#hackgate #NOTW #Pakistan Spot Fixing Allegations.

Agent at centre of Pakistan spot fixing allegations was more than £700,000 overdrawn when he allegedly took NOTW money to rig Lords test !

#Hackgate #NewsCorp investor to vote against Murdoch re-election

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