BBC - The parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking at the News of the World is expected to heavily criticise Tom Crone, the paper's former lawyer, when it publishes its report into the affair.Highly placed Westminster sources said Crone was likely to be severely reprimanded by the Commons culture, media and sport select committee over his failure to fully answer questions about surveillance carried out by the paper when he gave evidence in September.
Crone told MPs in September he "may" have commissioned private investigators "a long time ago maybe … on various things like tracing, maybe a bit of surveillance".
James Murdoch is expected to be characterised as ill-informed rather than mendacious by MPs, but News Corp's deputy chief operating officer is also likely to emerge with little credit when the report is finally published.
It is thought MPs will express surprise at Murdoch's lack of knowledge about phone hacking at the paper at a time when several key documents were circulating within the company that clearly showed the practice was widespread.
Previously (6 months ago)-
Opposition Labour party leader Ed Miliband said on Sunday that he would force parliament to vote this week if Cameron did not take steps to halt the £8.7 billion bid by Murdoch's News Corp for the 61 percent of BSkyB that it does not already own. The independent quote a senior government source as saying: "we are working on a plan to suspend the deal while the police investigation is taking place," – a move seen to head off a potentially damaging Commons vote which could potentially see Cameron’s Lib Dem coalition partners (apparently less favoured my Murdoch and company) side with a Labour party looking to make capital casting the Prime Minister as some sort of aloof pariah.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment