Murdoch forced into Strategic Withdrawal, British Public in Pursuit

[Demosthenes11]

idk if it's mentioned in there as well, but murdoch asked blair to go to war with Iraq PERSONALLY the day before the US invaded.

He also offered a 9/11 first responder a large amount of cash in exchange for private calls from that day. dude has no boundaries between politics, privacy, and media

[Headspace]

There was a report on deadspin that they may have hacked phones of 9/11 victims and families.

[Dimmauk]

Daily show's take on this was hilarious.

[Caiyuo]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...s-corp/241994/

Department of Justice Investigates News Corp.

By Chris Good Jul 15 2011, 10:47 AM ET 1
After allegations surfaced that reporters working for The News of The World attempted to hack the phones of 9/11 victims, Attorney General Eric Holder said in Australia Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Reuters reports:

"There have been members of Congress in the United States who have asked us to investigate those same allegations and we are progressing in that regard using the appropriate Federal law enforcement agencies," Holder told reporters.

This week, multiple members of Congress, hailing from both parties, asked Holder to investigate News Corp. after the allegations surfaced. The FBI is specifically investigating the claim about 9/11 victims, according to multiple news outlets.
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, asked for an investigation in a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller this week. From TalkingPointsMemo:

"It is revolting to imagine that members of the media would seek to compromise the integrity of a public official for financial gain in the pursuit of yellow journalism," King said in a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller. "The 9/11 families have suffered egregiously, but unfortunately they remain vulnerable against such unjustifiable parasitic strains."

Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), meanwhile, issued similar requests to holder and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). From National Journal:

"The allegations, if true, may constitute a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits corrupt payments intended to influence any act or decision of a foreign official," Rockefeller and Boxer wrote in a joint statement.

Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) also sent letters to Holder and the SEC.

[Souj]

So what's the best case scenario to come out of this? All of Murdoch's properties get shut down, or at least he loses control of them, or is he just gonna end up shutting down 2-3 of his newspapers, take a beating from the 2 other news media stations he doesn't own, then this all gets forgotten about in 2 weeks and he continues to make billions of dollars from his 700 other newspapers and tv stations?

[quannum]

Ayman al-Zawahiri would take over daily operations even though people say hes not as charasmatic as rupert

[Nightfyre]

I'd be completely unsurprised if the DoJ investigated just long enough for the public to get distracted and forget all about this.

[Drex]

Bout time for another little white girl to go missing, is it?

[Plow]

So what's the best case scenario to come out of this? All of Murdoch's properties get shut down

I dunno if that's a best case, really, because for that to happen some seriously seriously bad shit is going to have to have happened.

[Eaglestrike]

BBC just tweeted:

Phone #hacking whistleblower Sean Hoare found dead at his home in Watford. Police say circumstances 'unexplained but not suspicious'

[Dimmauk]

BBC just tweeted:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_901724.html

Sean Hoare, a former reporter for the News of the World who was the first to go on the record about Andy Coulson's alleged knowledge of the phone hacking there, has been found dead, according to the Guardian. He was found by police at his London home.

Hoare was known to have problems with drugs and alcohol, and the police said that they were not treating the death as a suspicious one, though they did not reveal what caused Hoare to pass away. But it still comes as a grim coincidence during a period when the phone hacking scandal is escalating seemingly every day.

Hoare first outed himself as a phone-hacker in a September 10 New York Times article. He said that he used to play Coulson—who became the top communications aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, and was later arrested for his alleged role in the hacking operation—recordings of hacked voicemails when the latter was the editor of the News of the World. Coulson, he told the paper, "actively encouraged me to do it." After the article was published, Hoare was questioned by police.

He spoke again to the paper last week, after the scandal had turned into a full-blown crisis.


WOW WHAT A COINCIDENCE!!

[thestalkmore]

It only makes sense that it's a coincidence. Why would you kill the guy who had already blown the whistle?

[Eaglestrike]

It only makes sense that it's a coincidence. Why would you kill the guy who had already blown the whistle?

To make sure more people don't step forward?

[Dimmauk]

It only makes sense that it's a coincidence. Why would you kill the guy who had already blown the whistle?

http://pointlessbanter.net/wp-conten...etStitches.jpg

[Eaglestrike]

I mean it makes perfect sense to do this. You're going to have all the lower employees offered deals to come forward and get lesser/dropped charges against them. If they believe they'll be killed for doing this, they might shut up and not tell.

[Mazmaz]

Not to mention now he can't testify in a court?

[Kuya]

Oh i really hope this ruins him.

[Lucavi]

It only makes sense that it's a coincidence. Why would you kill the guy who had already blown the whistle?

To set a precedence for anyone else who might want to come forward?

[Cantih]

but not suspicious

The fuck it isn't.

This certainly raises the stakes. If it turns out he was offed, it might actually destroy News Corp in the UK.

[Jaybar]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L-KYHWHKdy...esupremacy.jpg

Should have left Murdoch alone.