The corrupt continue to investigate the corrupt , this investigation should have been named 'Shredded T-Weet'
Lord Stevens: Diaries missinghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15260810
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
#hackgate: Scotland Yard LOOK Into 'Missing' Diary Connection
Lord Stevens: Diaries missinghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15260810
Monday, October 10, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
#Hackgate #Wittingdale ' Tom Watson Should Quit Culture Committee'
Tory panel chairman says MP's move to front bench means he can no longer sit on backbench committee
Tom Watson has played a key role in exposing phone hacking at the News of the World as part of the culture select committee. Photograph: David Gadd/Sportsphoto/Allstar
Tom Watson, the Labour MP who has played a central role in helping expose phone hacking at the News of the World, must stand down from the Commons culture, media and sport select committee after becoming deputy chair of the Labour party, the chairman of the panel has said.
The MP for West Bromwich East was appointed to the shadow front bench by Ed Miliband, in Friday's reshuffle. He is deputy chair and campaign co-ordinator, and is listed as a member of the shadow cabinet on the Labour party's website.
John Whittingdale, the Conservative MP and committee chairman, said that parliamentary convention dictated that members of the shadow cabinet should not sit on backbench committees. But he has no powers to force Watson to stand down.
Watson's dogged pursuit of News Corporation executives over phone hacking at the News of the World has won him a reputation as an attack dog. In July, he led the questioning of Rupert Murdoch during the media tycoon's appearance in front of the committee – a performance that led Time magazine to describe him as the "man who humbled Murdoch".
However, Watson said he would not stand down, writing on Twitter: "To be clear: I don't hold a front bench policy brief so remain on DCMS select committee. The Tories can say all they like. I'm not budging."
Pointing to Michael Fallon, the Tory deputy chairman, who sits on the Treasury select committee, Watson said: "No doubt the Tories will comment on his role."
Whittingdale cannot force Watson, who was appointed by a ballot of Labour MPs, to stand down. He said he would raise the matter with the liaison committee, the group of 32 select committee chairmen set up to oversee their operations, adding: "I am surprised that he thinks he can stay on. I will certainly raise this with the chairman as something that will have to be considered."
Whittingdale added: "I would say without hesitation that Tom has been an exceptionally effective member of the committee, not just on phone hacking. I will be extremely sorry to lose him. But this is not about Tom, it is about the principle."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/07/tom-watson-culture-committee
Friday, October 7, 2011
#Hackgate #NewsCorp Investors Think It Is Time For James Murdoch To Hang Up His Boots!
James Murdoch faced further calls to quit News Corporation's board yesterday after a shareholder activist group representing £100bn in assets said he was causing the company "significant reputational damage".
The Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF), the majority of whose 54 members own shares in the US-based News Corp, called for an overhaul of the board, and added that Mr Murdoch's continued presence on the board was "no longer in shareholders' interest". News Corp declined to comment yesterday.
Mr Murdoch runs News Corp's operations in Europe. In the wake of the phone hacking scandal, the LAPFF circulated a briefing paper to its members advising they oppose his re-election to the board. It also demanded a "genuinely independent chair" criticising Rupert Murdoch holding both that and the chief executive role. News Corp investors will vote on whether to re-elect the Murdochs at the company's annual general meeting in California later this month.
The LAPFF said its members "want a line drawn under the hacking". Yet the forum's chairman, Ian Greenwood, said it would only be possible to move on "if the board accepts the need to demonstrate real accountability. That requires a change in the structure and make-up of the board".
He concluded: "Whilst these are difficult issues for the company to address, we believe that to secure News Corp's long-term future such reform is necessary."
The LAPFF's pension fund members met on Wednesday for a scheduled quarterly meeting, and the issue of the structure of News Corp's board was top of the agenda. One source close to the meeting said none of the members opposed the points raised in the briefing paper "and no dissenting voices were heard".
The phone-hacking scandal, with allegations that journalists tapped the phones of celebrities and crime victims and their families, continues to engulf News Corp and prompted it to close the News of the World.
The forum said that it had drawn up its recommendations for its members after "extensive research into the phone-hacking scandal" and after engaging News Corp directly. The forum said: "The News Corp board must take responsibility for the hacking scandal."
The group did back three of the 15-strong board to maintain their roles. It supported lead director Rod Eddington as well as Viet Dinh, who carried out an internal review in response to the hacking allegations and which "must be given time to reach its conclusions". It also backs Andrew Knight, saying he had played a "positive role" in engaging with the forum.
It is understood that the forum has not yet drawn up recommendations over Sky, which News Corp failed in its attempt to buy this year and where James Murdoch is chairman.
The LAPFF was advised by Pirc, an investor advisory body that has long raised issues about James Murdoch's presence on the News Corp and BSkyB boards. In a recent note, Pirc recommended opposing all but two of the News Corp directors seeking re-election. Those two were chief operating officer Chase Carey, and chief financial officer David DeVoe. On James Murdoch, Pirc said: "There is sufficient doubt surrounding when Mr Murdoch became aware that the practice of phone hacking went beyond a rogue reporter.
"We also have concerns about the failure to respond robustly to initial allegations of phone hacking."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/news-corp-investors-call-for-james-murdochs-head-2366735.html
#phonehacking :Paul Burrell targeted by News of the World phone hacking
On 5 October 2011 it was revealed that Paul Burrell's phone was hacked by the defunct News of the World in the Hackgate scandal that has ripped through News Corporation.
In March 2008, shortly before the end of the Princess Diana Inquest in London, Simon Tomlin spoke to Dan Evans of the NOTW who was preparing a hitpiece on Paul Burrell. Did Dan Evans authorise the use of phone hacking against Paul Burrell in March 2008? Simon addressed the subject again when he spoke to Rob Jobson of the NOTW in July 2008 after the newspaper had ravaged Burrell over allegations he slept with Princess Diana...
In March 2008, shortly before the end of the Princess Diana Inquest in London, Simon Tomlin spoke to Dan Evans of the NOTW who was preparing a hitpiece on Paul Burrell. Did Dan Evans authorise the use of phone hacking against Paul Burrell in March 2008? Simon addressed the subject again when he spoke to Rob Jobson of the NOTW in July 2008 after the newspaper had ravaged Burrell over allegations he slept with Princess Diana...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=be3_1317843545
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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