Report: UK tabloid hacked into voicemails

[8bitagent]

I wonder what would happen if Fox News zombies knew News Corp donated more to Obama than Mccain?

[Harvey]

I wonder what would happen if Fox News zombies knew News Corp donated more to Obama than Mccain?

[Luther Blissett]

And another one bites the dust, this time The Sun features editor Matt Nixson. I agree, I just can't see how the Murdochs can survive this, but I think all we've seen are a few surface ripples of much larger stirrings in the abyss.

Depends on what you mean by "survive." There have been a few times over the course of these proceedings when I consider that it's all theater and whatever the outcome is, it's already planned and part of something larger.

[wintler2]

>Perjury - James Murdoch
>Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice - lawyer hacks
>More sackings close to the top
>News Corp cutting its footsoldiers loose legally
If this is a limited hangout, i am a Klingon hairpiece.

[blanc]

Well, am I the only one wondering what their involvement or connections might be with the criminal world and child pornography in particular?

[smiths]

If this is a limited hangout, i am a Klingon hairpiece

oh wintler, didnt you get the HMW tweet?

the word 'limited' has been redefined to mean an event, massive and dangerous, that exposes vast aspects of the elite's vicious and corrupt modus operandi to the general public and furthermore, through reinvigorating the ideals of journalism, and through the scale of the attack on the elite, empowers ordinary people against this sick aristocracy we have allowed to develop

and hangout has been redifined as well, it now means something resembling a vortex which grows in power and sucks slime out of government, police, media and corporate boardrooms everywhere

[JackRiddler]

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They'll find ways to limit this, but they certainly didn't hang it out.

Surprised they were caught at business as usual.

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[wintler2]

oh wintler, didnt you get the HMW tweet?

I did, but it just made me a bit sad for him.

.They'll find ways to limit this

They're damn sure trying, but that 'bellyful of phone hacking' cartoon in The Times wont help.

Surprised they were caught at business as usual.

I think that was their undoing - it had become so every-day that they forgot it was obscene, they forgot that they were monsters, and that the majority of people do give a shit.

[semper occultus]

James Murdoch wasn't under oath was he ?

the judge-led public inquiries presumably will require that

[2012 Countdown]

Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement
BY: ANONYMOUSIRC [22] | JUL 21ST, 2011


Hello thar FBI and international law authorities,

We recently stumbled across the following article with amazement and a certain amount of amusement:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/138555799 ... us-hackers

The statements made by deputy assistant FBI director Steve Chabinsky in this
article clearly seem to be directed at Anonymous and Lulz Security, and we are
happy to provide you with a response.

You state:

"We want to send a message that chaos on the Internet is unacceptable,
hackers can be believed to have social causes, it's entirely
unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts."

Now let us be clear here, Mr. Chabinsky, while we understand that you and
your colleagues may find breaking into websites unacceptable, let us tell
you what WE find unacceptable:

* Governments lying to their citizens and inducing fear and terror to keep
them in control by dismantling their freedom piece by piece.

* Corporations aiding and conspiring with said governments while taking
advantage at the same time by collecting billions of funds for
federal contracts we all know they can't fulfil.

* Lobby conglomerates who only follow their agenda to push the profits
higher, while at the same time being deeply involved in governments around
the world with the only goal to infiltrate and corrupt them enough
so the status quo will never change.

These governments and corporations are our enemy. And we will continue to
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We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to
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"The Internet has become so important to so many people that we have to
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Let me ask you, good sir, when was the Internet not the Wild Wild West? Do
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That does not mean that everyone behaves like an outlaw. You see, most
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http://pastebin.com/RA15ix7S

[wintler2]

James Murdoch wasn't under oath was he ?

the judge-led public inquiries presumably will require that

You're right, JM hasn't perjured himself in legal sense. Hopefully i'm prescient.

[wintler2]

MP will refer 'mistaken' testimony to police
LABOUR MP Tom Watson says he will refer to the police claims by two former News International executives that James Murdoch was ''mistaken'' in testimony he provided to a House of Commons select committee on Tuesday.

Mr Watson said he would refer the matter to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Sue Akers, who is in charge of Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan Police's criminal inquiry into phone hacking.

''This is the most significant moment of two years of investigation into phone hacking,'' Mr Watson told the BBC. ''If their statement is accurate, it shows James Murdoch had knowledge that others were involved in hacking as early as 2008. It shows he failed to act to discipline staff or initiate an internal investigation, which undermines Rupert Murdoch's evidence to our committee that the company had a zero tolerance to wrongdoing.''

Mr Watson said Gordon Taylor's financial payout was 10 times higher than a previous victim and came with a confidentiality clause. If the company had tried to buy his silence, ''in the UK we call that conspiracy to pervert the cause of justice'', he said.
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[seemslikeadream]

Justice Department Prepares Subpoenas in News Corp. Inquiry

By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO,DEVLIN BARRETT and DANA CIMILLUCA

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing subpoenas as part of preliminary investigations into News Corp. relating to alleged foreign bribery and alleged hacking of voicemail of Sept. 11 victims, according to a government official.

The issuance of such subpoenas, which would broadly seek relevant information from the company, requires approval by senior Justice Department leadership, which hasn't yet happened, the person said.

The issuance of subpoenas would represent an escalation of scrutiny on the New York-based media company. While the company has sought to isolate the legal problems in the U.K., it has been bracing for increased scrutiny from both the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to people familiar with the company's strategy.

The Justice Department has said it is looking into allegations that News Corp.'s now-defunct News of the World weekly in the U.K. paid bribes to British police. It has been unclear whether the Justice Department or the SEC have begun formal probes.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation separately has begun an inquiry into whether News Corp. employees tried to hack into voice mails of Sept. 11 victims, people familiar with the early-stage probe have said.

A person close to News Corp. said the preparation of subpoenas is "a fishing expedition with no evidence to support it."

News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal.

Commenting on the FBI inquiry, a News Corp. spokeswoman said: "We have not seen any evidence to suggest there was any hacking of 9/11 victim's phones, nor has anybody corroborated what are clearly very serious allegations. The story arose when an unidentified person speculated to the Daily Mirror about whether it happened. That paper printed the anonymous speculation, which has since mushroomed in the broader media with no substantiation."

The spokeswoman also said the company hasn't seen any "indication of a connection or similarity between the events, allegations and practices being investigated in the U.K. and News Corp's U.S. properties."

News Corp. and its recently bolstered legal team expect a possible broad investigation by the Justice Department into whether the alleged bribes paid to British police violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, according to the people familiar with the company's strategy. The law is typically used to pursue charges against companies that bribe foreign officials to give them business contracts.

News Corp.'s team also is anticipating a possible FCPA-related investigation by the SEC, the people said. The SEC also could examine News Corp.'s prior disclosures, one of the people said. By law, companies must adequately alert investors to potential litigation or business pitfalls on the horizon.

A spokesman for the SEC declined to comment.

The company's U.K. newspaper unit, News International, has declined to comment on the alleged bribes, citing an ongoing police investigation. Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks said in testimony to Parliament Tuesday that she had "never knowingly sanctioned a payment to a police officer."

U.K. police are conducting two parallel investigations into News Corp.'s now-closed News of the World, which is at the heart of the British scandal. One is related to allegations of illegal voice-mail interception and was opened in January; the other stems from allegations of police bribery. In addition, the company is facing a raft of civil suits. The U.K. government, meanwhile, plans at least two public inquiries.

For the Justice Department and the SEC to pursue News Corp. in the U.S. for allegedly bribing British policemen, the agencies would have to rely on a broad interpretation of the FCPA, legal experts say.

Another possible infraction investigators could examine: whether any payments were improperly accounted for in the company's books and records.

In recent days, News Corp. has hired an expert in the FCPA, Mark Mendelsohn, to advise it, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Mendelsohn, a partner in the Washington office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, couldn't be reached for comment.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

If this is a limited hangout, i am a Klingon hairpiece

oh wintler, didnt you get the HMW tweet?

the word 'limited' has been redefined to mean an event, massive and dangerous, that exposes vast aspects of the elite's vicious and corrupt modus operandi to the general public and furthermore, through reinvigorating the ideals of journalism, and through the scale of the attack on the elite, empowers ordinary people against this sick aristocracy we have allowed to develop

and hangout has been redifined as well, it now means something resembling a vortex which grows in power and sucks slime out of government, police, media and corporate boardrooms everywhere

Wrong. This episode doesn't even come close to the much bigger expose of social control from media>politics coming in the near future.
This episode is being used to put a topic in the public's mind in a much less illusion-shattering form, a classic psyops tactic of counterpropaganda.

Stand by.

[seemslikeadream]

News Corp boss 'linked' to leak of Vince Cable's Rupert Murdoch comments

Detectives hired by Telegraph to discover source of leaks have 'strong suspicion' Will Lewis was involved, according to reports

The firm of private investigators hired by Telegraph Media Group to discover the source of Vince Cable's leaked comments to the BBC have a "strong suspicion" that Will Lewis, a senior executive at Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, was involved in orchestrating the disclosure, according to the Reuters news agency.

In an undercover audio recording leaked to the BBC, Cable told two Daily Telegraph reporters in December that he had "declared war" on Murdoch by referring his controversial BSkyB bid to the media regulator, Ofcom. The disclosure saw Cable immediately stripped of his ministerial responsibilities for the deal, which were handed to the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt.

An investigation by Kroll, published in part by Reuters on Friday, concluded that there was a strong suspicion that Lewis and another former Telegraph colleague – who also joined News Corp's UK publisher subsidiary News International last year – were "involved in orchestrating the leak of information" in order to damage their former employer.

TMG, the publisher of the Telegraph, and News International declined to comment. Kroll had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.

News Corp's management and standards committee – where Lewis currently works – said it had "no comment to make" on the Kroll report while friends of Lewis dismissed the Kroll document as "totally bizarre".

Lewis has relinquished his responsibilities as News International general manager and been seconded to News Corp's MSC, which is investigating alleged phone hacking and payments to police officers by the now-defunct News of the World.

Kroll's report, which the Guardian believes to be genuine, concludes: "Given their employment with News International, their antipathy toward the Telegraph, and their knowledge of the story, we have a strong suspicion that [the other former Telegraph employee] and Lewis were involved in orchestrating the leak of the information."

The Daily Telegraph published a story based on extracts of the undercover recording of Cable on 20 December, but omitted the minister's comments about Murdoch. Cable's remarks were first revealed by the BBC's business editor, Robert Peston, online and on the BBC News channel. The BBC also ran an audio recording of his comments to the Telegraph reporters.

Kroll's investigators apparently said the leak was likely the result of "unauthorised access" to TMG's IT systems. It said: "The copying of the audio file by either of these methods constitutes theft."

The report continues: "We have established that on 9 December, the circle of knowledge of an impending 'big story' by the same Telegraph team who broke [a major political story about British parliamentary expenses] extended to ... a former Telegraph employee now employed by News International ... [who] works closely at News International with the former Telegraph editor Will Lewis, both of whom have strong motivations to damage the Telegraph.

"In the period between 9 and 21 December there was extensive telephone, text and social contact between [the former Telegraph employee], Lewis, and individuals within the authorised circle of knowledge ... [we] believe it is more than likely that their knowledge of the big story grew. News International was the only media organisation we identified as having extensive contacts with the authorised circle of knowledge during this period."

According to Reuters, Kroll found that whoever leaked the recording "had to have the help of someone who could access the audio file".

However, Kroll investigators warned TMG that pinpointing the exact source of the leak would be difficult because too many people had access to the IT system.

Kroll apparently advised TMG executives to halt the investigation after it discovered that 15 of the paper's employees and up to 50 BT staff could in theory have access to the system because of outsourcing.