Report: UK tabloid hacked into voicemails

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Phone hacking
Tea with Tony and dinner with Cherie – how the Murdochs wined and dined the Blairs
As David Cameron and Gordon Brown turn on their former News International ally over the phone-hacking scandal, Tony Blair's reluctance to join the condemnation is raising questions
Jamie Doward
The Observer, Sunday 24 July 2011

The speed of Wendi Deng Murdoch's right hook, to stop a protester during her husband Rupert Murdoch's testimony to MPs, caused a stir around the world. Two particularly admiring onlookers of the must-see TV moment are likely to have been the Murdochs' increasingly close friends, Tony and Cherie Blair.

Blair's reluctance to speak out against Murdoch over the phone-hacking affair will undoubtedly bolster accusations that he has been compromised by his close ties with the media tycoon and his wife...

John Simkin, at The Education Forum, had this 4 years ago.

In the run-up to the 1972 election, Murdoch's paper The Australian was a keen Whitlam supporter, donating some $75,000 in free advertising. By 1975, with Peer de Silva, John Denley Walker and Milton Wonus CIA station chiefs, Murdoch had turned savagely against the Labor government, to the extent there were demonstrations outside The Australian's Sydney offices. Murdoch's role was part of a longer-term CIA operation to destroy Labor's powerful leftwing and install Bob Hawke and his CIA-affiliated cronies in the NSW Right faction, who hosted Bernie Houghton and the merry band called Nugan Hand. Shackley and Walker particularly despised Whitlam who had tolerated the left and believed in Australia's sovereignty!

Murdoch did the same in Britain switching his support from the Conservative Party to the Labour Party in 1997. As we now know, the Labour Party followed a right-wing agenda after they came to power. A senior Blair aide, Lance Price, reported in his memoirs that Blair always consulted with Murdoch before announcing any major policy decision. Blair is rumoured to have been recruited by MI5 in the 1970s to spy on CND activists in the Labour Party. He also took CIA funded trips to the United States in the 1980s. Gordon Brown also went on those trips so don't expect any change since he became prime minister.

Rupert Murdoch and Ted Shackley - The Education Forum

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 57#p413557

[kenoma]

News of the World targeted phone of Sarah Payne's mother

Evidence found in private detective's notes believed to relate to phone which Rebekah Brooks gave to Sara Payne as gift
Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted by the News of the World's investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who specialised in hacking voicemail.

Police had earlier told her correctly that her name was not among those recorded in Mulcaire's notes, but on Tuesday officers from Operation Weeting told her they had found her personal details among the investigator's notes. These had previously been thought to refer to a different target.

Friends of Sara Payne have told the Guardian that she is "absolutely devastated and deeply disappointed" at the disclosure. Her cause had been championed by the News of the World, and in particular by its former editor, Rebekah Brooks. Believing that she had not been a target for hacking, Payne wrote a farewell column for the paper's final edition on 10 July, referring to its staff as "my good and trusted friends".

The evidence that police have found in Mulcaire's notes is believed to relate to a phone given to Sara Payne by Rebekah Brooks as a gift to help her stay in touch with her supporters. One of Payne's close colleagues said: "We are all appalled and disgusted. Sara is in bits about it."

Coming after the disclosure that the News of the World hacked and deleted the voicemail of the murdered Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler, the news will raise further questions about whether News Corporation is "fit and proper" to own TV licences and its 39% share of BSkyB.

It will also revive speculation about the possible role in phone hacking of Rebekah Brooks, who was personally very closely involved in covering the aftermath of Sarah Payne's murder and has always denied any knowledge of voicemail interception. On 15 July Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International and was arrested and interviewed by police.

The Labour MP Tom Watson, who has been an outspoken critic of News International, said of the Payne revelation: "This is a new low. The last edition of the News of the World made great play of the paper's relationship with the Payne family. Brooks talked about it at the committee inquiry. Now this. I have nothing but contempt for the people that did this."

Friends of Sara Payne said she had accepted the News of the World as a friend and ally. Journalists from the paper attended the funerals of her mother and father and visited her sick bed after she suffered a severe stroke in December 2009.

In the wake of the Guardian's disclosure on 4 July of the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, there were rumours that Sara Payne also might have been a victim. Police from Operation Weeting, which has been investigating the News of the World's phone hacking since January, checked the names of Payne and her closest associates against its database of all the information contained in the notebooks, computer records and audio tapes seized from Glenn Mulcaire in August 2006. They found nothing.
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[kenoma]

From Rebekah Brooks' email to NOTW staff three weeks ago:

...If the allegations are proved to be true then I can promise the strongest possible action will be taken as this company will not tolerate such disgraceful behaviour.
I hope that you all realise it is inconceivable that I knew or worse, sanctioned these appalling allegations.
I am proud of the many successful newspaper campaigns at the Sun and the News of the World under my editorship.
In particular, the ten year fight for Sarah's Law is especially personal to me.
The battle for better protection of children from paedophiles and better rights for the families and the victims of these crimes defined my editorships....

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=47417

[hanshan]

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From Rebekah Brooks' email to NOTW staff three weeks ago:

...If the allegations are proved to be true then I can promise the strongest possible action will be taken as this company will not tolerate such disgraceful behaviour.
I hope that you all realise it is inconceivable that I knew or worse, sanctioned these appalling allegations.
I am proud of the many successful newspaper campaigns at the Sun and the News of the World under my editorship.
In particular, the ten year fight for Sarah's Law is especially personal to me.
The battle for better protection of children from paedophiles and better rights for the families and the victims of these crimes defined my editorships....

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=47417

love the sound of liars in the am

the old saw about US politicians: How can you tell if they're lying? Are their lips moving?


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[norton ash]

Oh, Rebekah, you lying sack of shit.

[gnosticheresy_2]

Word round the campfire is something else is going to come out in the next few minutes, possibly Daily Mirror related....

[gnosticheresy_2]

<edit> should double check my sources before posting

[IanEye]

Paul McCartney and then-wife Heather Mills in 2002. In a 2006 column, Piers Morgan recounted being played a tape of a message the ex-Beatle left for Mills. "It was heartbreaking. The couple had clearly had a tiff, Heather had fled to India, and Paul was pleading with her to come back.”

“I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone,” Morgan has said.

aha! Piers Morgan was "iamaphoney" all along!!

[AhabsOtherLeg]

News of the World targeted phone of Sarah Payne's mother

Evidence found in private detective's notes believed to relate to phone which Rebekah Brooks gave to Sara Payne as gift...

This is especially odious when you look back at the articles Sara Payne wrote for The Sun in the week that the NOTW folded, and also for the final issue of the NOTW. There was a definite hint in The Sun piece that this revelation was coming down the tube. Why they put it in there, I don't know. Maybe to minimise the shock when the truth came out.

But both Sun and NOTW journalists must've already known, when Payne was writing those articles for them, which offered a partial defence of the NI papers, that the gift, the "lifeline", she'd recieved all those years ago was in fact a bug.

I already knew back then, so I'm sure they did...

From Sara Payne's piece for The Sun:

Published: 08 Jul 2011
THE mum of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has paid tribute to the News of the World — saying she felt "like a friend had just died".

Justice campaigner Sara joined forces with the Sunday paper after her daughter's death and it championed her fight against sick paedophiles.

Together they pressed for Sarah's law, which allows people such as single mums to check if people close to their children are sex offenders....


"The NOTW team supported me through some of the darkest, most difficult times of my life and became my trusted friends.

"One example of their support was to give me a phone to help me stay in touch with my family, friends and support network, which turned out to be an absolute lifeline.

"A lifeline policy that we now adopt as victims' advocates.

"Since Sarah was murdered, my marriage broke down, my brother passed away, then my mother and then my father."

No need to guess who got the scoops on all these events, which were reported as human interest pieces over the years.

"I just don't know what I would have done without being able to reach out to my friends and family 'whenever I needed them' during these very dark times and it helped me stay in touch with the NOTW team regarding their support for my campaign to bring about Sarah's Law which went national this year.

Christ.

[hanshan]

News of the World targeted phone of Sarah Payne's mother

Evidence found in private detective's notes believed to relate to phone which Rebekah Brooks gave to Sara Payne as gift...

This is especially odious when you look back at the articles Sara Payne wrote for The Sun in the week that the NOTW folded, and also for the final issue of the NOTW. There was a definite hint in The Sun piece that this revelation was coming down the tube. Why they put it in there, I don't know. Maybe to minimise the shock when the truth came out.

But both Sun and NOTW journalists must've already known, when Payne was writing those articles for them, which offered a partial defence of the NI papers, that the gift, the "lifeline", she'd recieved all those years ago was in fact a bug.

I already knew back then, so I'm sure they did...

From Sara Payne's piece for The Sun:

Published: 08 Jul 2011
THE mum of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has paid tribute to the News of the World — saying she felt "like a friend had just died".

Justice campaigner Sara joined forces with the Sunday paper after her daughter's death and it championed her fight against sick paedophiles.

Together they pressed for Sarah's law, which allows people such as single mums to check if people close to their children are sex offenders....


"The NOTW team supported me through some of the darkest, most difficult times of my life and became my trusted friends.

"One example of their support was to give me a phone to help me stay in touch with my family, friends and support network, which turned out to be an absolute lifeline.

"A lifeline policy that we now adopt as victims' advocates.

"Since Sarah was murdered, my marriage broke down, my brother passed away, then my mother and then my father."

No need to guess who got the scoops on all these events, which were reported as human interest pieces over the years.

"I just don't know what I would have done without being able to reach out to my friends and family 'whenever I needed them' during these very dark times and it helped me stay in touch with the NOTW team regarding their support for my campaign to bring about Sarah's Law which went national this year.

Christ.

Unreal. If they aren't soulless Reptilians a la Icke, they may as well be.




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[kenoma]

In a statement released this evening, ex-Chief Executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks (43) says she was 'deeply moved' by the messages of condolence and support left on the Winehouse family's phones.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

In a statement released this evening, ex-Chief Executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks (43) says she was 'deeply moved' by the messages of condolence and support left on the Winehouse family's phones.

Okay, I laughed, and now I feel bad. I can't go around this place being all moral and superior anymore, which I was only just getting the hang of. That's your fault Kenoma. Hope you're happy.

[MacCruiskeen]

Yeah, but Ahab, when can we finally expect exclusive pics of Anders B. Breivik actually pointing his gun at us, obtained by our free press by hacking into a teenager's cellphone as she hid in the undergrowth (or tried to)?

When? Why won't the media report the really important stuff? That's what tortures me.

[Byrne]

“I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone,” [Piers] Morgan has said.

Oh, yeah?:

From Private Eye #1293 - Just Fancy That !
"I got back to the office to learn that Kate Winslet, having indicated she would come to our 'Pride of Britain' awards tomorrow, is now saying she can't. Someone had got hold of her mobile number - I never like to ask - so I rang her...'Hello,' she said, sounding a bit taken aback. 'How did you get my mobile number? I've only just changed it. You've got to tell me, please, I am so worried now.' "

- Piers Morgan, 10th April 2000 diary entry in 'The Insider'

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Yeah, but Ahab, when can we finally expect exclusive pics of Anders B. Breivik actually pointing his gun at us, obtained by our free press by hacking into a teenager's cellphone as she hid in the undergrowth (or tried to)?

When? Why won't the media report the really important stuff? That's what tortures me.

I lie awake nights too. We call ourselves a free society, a democracy. Where, then, I ask, are the real-time internet videos of child-killings that have always been the fundamental hallmark of liberty, and the sole guarantor of truth? Whither the Twitter pics?

People once asked - who will guard the guardians? I ask, who will film the shootings? Who, if not the children?

Ach, i can;t go on with that. I'm too ashamed. Ashamed for everybody, and especially me. But proud of Norway, i have to say. The public reaction has been absolutely exemplary, just as, to me and to Scotland generally (I hope) their society has been exemplary for decades.

The really terrible thing about this:

...exclusive pics of Anders B. Breivik actually pointing his gun at us, obtained by our free press by hacking into a teenager's cellphone as she hid in the undergrowth (or tried to)?

is that it will actually happen one day. If it hasn't already. Not with Breivik, though, obviously. His successors.