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Wow, that's crazy. They've been arrested before though right?
Not in relation to the current investigations, I'm just pulling together a list of my blog posts on Southern Investigations and Marunchak.
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The Cook-Hames Surveillance : A Watched Kettle... - About how Jonathan Rees organised with Alex Marunchak an attempt to discredit a serving police officer, David Cook, after he appeared on Crimewatch appealing for information on the murder of Daniel Morgan.
Derek Haslam Confirms To Ian Hurst Southern Investigations Targeted MPs, Ministers, And The Home Secretary - My worst headline ever for Southern Investigations worst crime
Alex Marunchak - Presumed Innocent - Everything in the public domain Alex Marunchak has done that would make the police interested in him.
Operation Tuleta - A Second Look - A look at the Operation Rees and Marunchak were arrested under, worth a read if you want to predict what happens next.
Hackgate for Beginners - The Murder of Daniel Morgan - A must read on the murder of Daniel Morgan, the former partner of Jonathan Rees at Southern Investigations.
Alastair Morgan On The Latest Hackgate Revelations - My brief interview with Daniel Morgan's brother about the recent weeks hacking revelations.
I know it's a lot of articles to read, but it reflects how central Southern Investigations and Alex Marunchak were to the major elements of Hackgate, and all are really worth a read considering there's a lot more to come.
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Oct 2, 2012 11:12
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- Brown Moses
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Sid Fillery, Greg Miskiw, Glenn Mulcaire, three names to remember.
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Oct 2, 2012 11:41
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- Brown Moses
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Here's the Guardian's take
quote:Alex Marunchak and Jonathan Rees held as part of Operation Kalmyk
Scotland Yard officers investigating alleged computer hacking have made two further arrests, understood to be former News of the World journalist Alex Marunchak and private investigator Jonathan Rees.
The two men were arrested shortly before 7am on Tuesday morning at their homes by police officers working on Operation Kalmyk.
This is an investigation into journalism related computer hacking which is being carried out under the auspices of Operation Tuleta, the wider Metropolitan police probe into criminal breaches of privacy.
A 58-year-old man – understood to be Rees – was arrested in Surrey and taken to a south London police station. The second arrestee is a 61-year-old male journalist – understood to be Marunchak – who will be interviewed at a Kent police station.
Both were arrested for alleged offences under Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and Sections 1 & 2 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
Tuesday's arrests bring the total number under Operation Tuleta to 16.
Tuleta is being run in conjunction with the Met's other investigations into alleged illegal activity by journalists, Operation Weeting (phone hacking) and Operation Elveden (inappropriate payments to public officials).
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Oct 2, 2012 11:47
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- Sion
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This whole thing is just one massive loving spiders web of shitehawks and he said, she said bullshit by this point isn't it? This is why government inquiries take so loving long.
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Oct 2, 2012 15:43
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- Brown Moses
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quote:Pair named as 'Alex Marunchak and Jonathan Rees' bailed after hacking arrests
A 61-year-old journalist arrested yesterday in connection with allegations of computer hacking has been bailed by police.
The man was named by the BBC as former News of the World Ireland editor Alex Marunchak. A 58-year-old man, named as private investigator Jonathan Rees, was also arrested yesterday morning and released on bail.
Both were arrested on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and Sections 1 and 2 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, police said.
Scotland Yard said the arrests brought to 16 the number of people arrested under Operation Tuleta, a Scotland Yard investigation into privacy breaches including the alleged hacking of computers and stolen mobile phones.
The operation is being run in tandem with two other investigations: Operation Weeting, which is looking at alleged phone hacking, and Operation Elveden, an inquiry into claims of corrupt payments to public officials.
Both men were arrested at their homes, which were searched by officers.
The 58-year-old was bailed to return to a south London police station later this week, while the 61-year-old was bailed until mid-February.
Over the last 16 months at least 47 journalists have been arrested by UK police for alleged offences committed in the course of their work.
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Oct 3, 2012 10:02
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- Hong XiuQuan
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Surprised they received bail at all to be honest. Worried they may now try to destroy evidence.
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Oct 3, 2012 12:06
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Surprised they received bail at all to be honest. Worried they may now try to destroy evidence.
Marunchak and Rees must have known this has been coming for months, they've had plenty of time to prepare already.
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Oct 3, 2012 12:10
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- Brown Moses
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The good thing about having all these posts about Southern Investigations and friends already written up is they aren't covered by the contempt of court rules that are now in force after Rees and Marunchak got arrested. Poor David Allen Green was about to publish a detailed examination of them and the Daniel Morgan case and has now had to rewrite the whole thing to avoid contempt.
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Oct 3, 2012 13:23
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- Brown Moses
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Is that how it works? You can't be done for anything at all?
From what I've been told by people in the know basically if it's already in the public domain you can't be done for it. It's actually getting pretty difficult to write articles about phone hacking due to the sheer volume of arrests. I had to edited on recent article because I forogt two of the people in it had been arrested.
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Oct 3, 2012 13:41
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I can't see how it could work otherwise. It'd be hard to go around retroactively deleting posts and pulping newspapers because someone had been arrested.
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Oct 3, 2012 14:30
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I can't see how it could work otherwise. It'd be hard to go around retroactively deleting posts and pulping newspapers because someone had been arrested.
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Oct 3, 2012 15:05
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- Lovely Joe Stalin
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The libel laws in the UK are crazy. (I suspect their contempt-of-court laws are similar.) For an American, it's terribly strange, but they don't have the same kind of free-speech hangup that we do.
In this case it's the concept that the right to a fair trial trumps the freedom of journalists to make money. Given that it means Nancy Grace etc don't exist here, I think it's a entirely justifiable.
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Oct 3, 2012 15:58
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What BM publishes could conceivably influence the jury, money or no. It's the same principle. Once a prosecution is in motion the right to of the defendant to a fair trial comes before all other considerations.
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Oct 3, 2012 16:08
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Here's David Allen Green's piece on the Murder of Daniel Morgan I mentioned earlier, watch as he skillfully avoids mentioning certain names
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/death-daniel-morgan
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Oct 3, 2012 16:55
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Given that it means Nancy Grace etc don't exist here..
No, just journalists who hack into dead girls' phones and well all the poo poo this thread is about. Which seems quite a bit worse than having that moron who talks on a 5th rate news channel (HLN) to me at least?
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Oct 3, 2012 20:51
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Another piece from my regular contributor - One Rogue Email And The Indestructible Archive.
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Oct 3, 2012 20:56
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- Mr. Squishy
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No, just journalists who hack into dead girls' phones and well all the poo poo this thread is about. Which seems quite a bit worse than having that moron who talks on a 5th rate news channel (HLN) to me at least?
You're right, contempt of court laws lead to corruption and illegality. I understand this because I know everything is interconnected.
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Oct 3, 2012 21:51
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From what I've been told by people in the know basically if it's already in the public domain you can't be done for it. It's actually getting pretty difficult to write articles about phone hacking due to the sheer volume of arrests. I had to edited on recent article because I forogt two of the people in it had been arrested.
If you were to accidentally publish an article containing something potentially libelous and then edit it out later, but the original article was still being copy/pasted, cached on Google, etc could you be held in contempt? Just curious.
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If you were to accidentally publish an article containing something potentially libelous and then edit it out later, but the original article was still being copy/pasted, cached on Google, etc could you be held in contempt? Just curious.
Short answer no but, long answer yes unless. Cached and otherwise republished content is a massive swirling vortex of doom, legally, especially given the extraterritorial aspect of it.
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Oct 4, 2012 09:27
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Meanwhile, in the colonies...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HDKzV1zzIk
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Oct 4, 2012 11:24
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Seriously BM, I hope all you put on that application form for the BBC was "I am Brown Moses" since you're doing a bangup job.
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Oct 4, 2012 11:33
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- Brown Moses
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I've just applied for the BBC Journalism Training Scheme, so fingers crossed. I mentioned I did the Brown Moses Blog, so hopefully some of the people reading the application have actually heard of me. I made sure to mention I've been linked and quoted in the New York Times, Guardian, News Statesman, and all those other places, so I hope that perks up their interest even if they haven't heard of my blog.
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I've just applied for the BBC Journalism Training Scheme, so fingers crossed. I mentioned I did the Brown Moses Blog, so hopefully some of the people reading the application have actually heard of me. I made sure to mention I've been linked and quoted in the New York Times, Guardian, News Statesman, and all those other places, so I hope that perks up their interest even if they haven't heard of my blog.
Best of luck! It has been a lot of fun reading your analysis on both this and the arab spring. It'll be interesting to see how Auntie adapts to reportage from the internet, and I reckon you're ideally placed to help them with that.
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- Hong XiuQuan
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Richard Littlejohn is hilariously awful in the Mail:
Twat posted:
If Savile was alive today, he'd be a star witness at Leveson - given the full 'Sir James' treatment and allowed to trash the Press
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Some newspapers did try to stand up the allegations, without success. But they had to tread carefully.
How far was Fleet Street supposed to go? What if it heard that Savile had been leaving voice or text messages on a 14-year-old girl’s mobile phone, had such a thing existed back then?
What if a photographer dressed as a BBC commissionaire had burst into Savile’s dressing room hoping to catch him molesting a schoolgirl?
What if a newspaper had camped out in his front garden, staked out his caravan, or shouted through his letter box. What if a reporter — shock horror — had been caught buying a drink for one of the investigating officers?
And then imagine the evidence had fallen short of proof positive.
If Jimmy Savile was alive today, he’d have been a star witness at Leveson, given the full ‘Sir James’ treatment by his lordship and allowed to trash the Press without fear of contradiction or cross-examination.
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Richard Littlejohn is a paedophile. I don't have proof positive, but I'm going to put it on the front page of my newspaper anyway.
If you guys could spread this round the Internet, that'd be really helpful!
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Oct 5, 2012 12:00
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- Zephro
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/neil-wallis/jimmy-savile-other-unpubl_b_1942668.html
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Imagine if The Sun had printed an expose "Jimmy Savile is a Paedophile".
Imagine it had taken the sworn word of several young women victims, gone against the legal advice (for it would have been No!) like the Daily Mail did over naming the Stephen Lawrence killers, and printed the sort of allegations that have been aired this week in the wake of ITV's brave documentary.
Imagine then the carnage of the subsequent court case, where £750-a-hour barristers expertly tore to shreds the reputation of the paper's frightened and less-than-sophisticated witnesses, poring over the most minute detail of the sexual history of the disturbed young kids Savile had expertly targeted, while smiling benign old Jimmy sat in the dock in a purple shellsuit and waited to bring on the succession of character witnesses including royalty and former prime ministers to defend his honour.
Finally, imagine the record size of the libel damages - and then what play the whole miserable saga would have got from Lord Justice Leveson and his acolyte Mr Robert Jay QC at his subsequent Inquiry into the press.
Because, if Leveson was willing to give courtroom space to 20-year-old allegations from Anne Diamond, the whinings of the gruesome Max Mosley, and untested unsubstantiated wild claims from a prostitute-using fading actor, just think what airtime he would have given Saint Jimmy.
And that, in a nutshell, is why His Lordship is going to ensure that a whole load more Jimmy Saviles are going to get away with evil in the future.
Because Post-Leveson the British press are simply going to be too frightened to even risk that kind of expose any more.
As I've chronicled before, the chilling effect of Leveson-fear is already evident in our taboid and mid-market papers. In my very first Huffington Post UK blog on 22 August this year I warned:
"Stories about disgraced MPs, high society vice rings, cheating married celebrities, philandering tycoons, have all but disappeared from the papers. Not because they're not there - trust me, they never go away - but because even if you can get them past the lawyer you are still to scared to try and get them past His Lordship."
The Jimmy Savile story - or rather, the lack of it - is the perfect example of that. And I could tell you many more from a 35-year-career in national tabloid newspapers. The top Cabinet Minister and the rentboy? The MP who loved child pornography? The mega-rich tycoon and the (very young) shopgirls? The MP and the 13-year-old girl? The "superstud" telly star who secretly prefers guys? The supermodel super-hooker (only £25,000 a night, folks)? The sex-pest "sex-bomb" actress who no woman who knew her dared get into a lift with?
Untold stories like those around Fleet Street are legion. All the stories above - and many more - were investigated by newspapers. Talented, experienced reporters dug away for weeks or months, Large amounts of money were expended, expert legal advice sought and considered, risks agonised over....and ultimately all the stories above were spiked because the newspapers just didn't believe they could win in a libel court. Creatures like Savile trade off that. Lord Justice Leveson will give them succour.
There's been much chatter on Twitter this week suggesting that somehow the tabloids failed in their inability to bring Savile to book, despite the fact that rumours about him and young girls were very widely known indeed. They failed for the reasons above. But at least journalists did have a go.
Sadly, post the Leveson Inquiry, I really doubt that they'd even risk it now. Could an Editor survive losing such a legal case as I've described with their job intact? The News of the World lost the Max Mosley case because a judge ruled that it wrongly added an untrue twist to what most right-thinking people would still believe was disgusting and perverted behaviour. Yet Mosley has managed to convert himself into some noble folk hero in some quarters, to be listened to respectfully at Leveson while experienced and sensible newspaper executives were barely tolerated. Would newspapers even risk a Mosley-style investigation now, knowing the hunger currently abroad to do down the tabloid newspaper industry?
Who would risk putting their job, their newspaper, on the line now to give a voice to the victims, the down-trodden, the abused - the people that the Jimmy Saviles, the Gary Glitters, of the world prey upon?
Lord Justice Leveson insists he believes in Press Freedom, but... It is now a very big But indeed. Because many Editors and proprietors awaiting Leveson LJ's report next month on their industry with great trepidation are now feeling it is just not worth the risk any more to even publish such stories. In which case, why even bother investigating them?
Which, for the Jimmy Saviles of this world, is very very good news indeed. 
Hai guys, literally your only two choices are having journalists burgling the offices of Cabinet ministers and hacking dead childrens' mobiles, or total censorship that will let THE PAEDOS take over Are Country 
edit: for context, the author is a one-time tabloid editor who's been arrested under one or other of the phone-hacking inquiries, heh.
Zephro fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Oct 5, 2012
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I must have missed the part where the pre-leveson press investigated and exposed Savile.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/neil-wallis/jimmy-savile-other-unpubl_b_1942668.html
Hai guys, literally your only two choices are having journalists burgling the offices of Cabinet ministers and hacking dead childrens' mobiles, or total censorship that will let THE PAEDOS take over Are Country
edit: for context, the author is a one-time tabloid editor who's been arrested under one or other of the phone-hacking inquiries, heh.
He follows me on Twitter, and my contributor wrote a rather scathing article about him and his lack of self-awareness, and when I tweeted it he replied "Excellent!", so I tweeted it again saying something along the lines of "described as excellent by Neil Wallis", and he sent me a DM complaining, asking that next time I quote him in quotation marks, and to include the exclamation point. I think perhaps the irony of him asking that in relation to that specific article was lost on him.
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He follows me on Twitter, and my contributor wrote a rather scathing article about him and his lack of self-awareness, and when I tweeted it he replied "Excellent!", so I tweeted it again saying something along the lines of "described as excellent by Neil Wallis", and he sent me a DM complaining, asking that next time I quote him in quotation marks, and to include the exclamation point. I think perhaps the irony of him asking that in relation to that specific article was lost on him.
I guessed who that HuffPo article was going to be by even without clicking on the link. Did any of these people whining about "ARE PRESS FREEDOM" even watch the inquiry? LJL said many times he doesn't intend to gag the press and public interest reporting was discussed frequently too.
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Oct 6, 2012 07:32
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Little bit of news from yesterday
quote:News International wins court ruling on searches related to phone hacking
Lawyers acting for more than 170 phone-hacking victims, including Cherie Blair and Hugh Grant, were dealt a blow on Friday after losing a high court application to force News International to do a general search of its databases for potential evidence of illegal voicemail interception.
However, the high court did order News International to hand over nine previously undisclosed emails between News International and the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who is at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal.
The phone-hacking claimants were seeking further disclosure in relation to Mulcaire's activities before 2001 in an effort to establish whether voicemail interception had taken place earlier than admitted by News International during the course of the civil litigation proceedings.
They were also seeking access to 433 emails in a file on the computer in the room of a senior News International executive labelled "3 - Neville Thurlbeck.pst", along with other documentation submitted to the Metropolitan police and the Leveson inquiry. The .pst suffix would ordinarily refer to personal Microsoft Outlook email folders.
Mr Justice Vos said the decision not to allow more generic disclosure "does not come easily to me" in the light of previous evidence that News International, even during the course of litigation, had failed to disclose material it should have, and had also admitted to the destruction of emails.
However, he said: "Even with all that background, it seems to me that, to put it bluntly, you can have too much of a good thing", adding that the "value of further general disclosure" was "unlikely to be justified".
He said he did not see how further generic disclosure could be "proportionate" in relation to civil proceedings or "cost effective".
During the four-day hearing last week, News International argued that it had already made generic admission that phone hacking had taken place and further disclosure would not serve to advance their case as it had already been conceded by the publisher.
It also told the court that searching all the documents disclosed to the Met by the law firm Linklaters' criminal team would cost over £500,000 and to search all the Microsoft Outlook files manually would cost around £1m.
Mr Justice Vos said: "It seems to me that the bulk of any further disclosure should be on a case-specific basis."
The court also heard that no application had been made by Mulcaire to have the civil trials, currently listed for June, adjourned on the grounds they could prejudice a criminal trial he is facing in September 2013.
Vos said he could see how many of the lead cases in the civil litigation could be tried "without trespassing on any allegations made in the criminal proceedings".
Last week, counsel for Mulcaire told the court she had concerns that Mulcaire's criminal case could be prejudiced by witnesses discussing how injured their feelings were by phone hacking in the earlier civil actions.
Vos noted that News Group Newspapers, the subsidiary of News International that includes the Sun and the now-closed News of the World, had agreed voluntarily to do a manual search for disclosable documents in the Leveson files and the .pst files contained on "Senior Executive B's" computer. This, said Vos, was "a very constructive proposal" and urged News International to continue to be responsive to "measured requests" for searches.
He added he was not saying that no further application for generic disclosure would be possible. "Circumstances can change," he warned.
A spokeswoman for News International said Vos had "in short, agreed with News Group Newspapers that 'enough is enough'". She added: "We have always been committed to bringing these proceedings to a fair, appropriate and expeditious conclusion and we welcome today's judgment which will assist that process."
A few people have been asking for my Twitter account again, so it's Brown_Moses for anyone who wants to follow.
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Oct 6, 2012 12:28
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Hacked Off are publishing an open letter to David Cameron urging him not to go ahead with the rumored "Second Chance" for press self-regulation to be announced at the Tory conference.
BBC News posted:Dozens of phone-hacking victims have urged David Cameron to keep an open mind on press regulation.
Campaign group Hacked Off expressed concern about reports suggesting the PM will reject statutory intervention even if the Leveson Inquiry recommends it.
An open letter signed by 60 phone-hack victims, including Hugh Grant and Charlotte Church, urges him to fully consider the inquiry's recommendations.
The recommendations are expected to be made by the end of 2012.
The Leveson Inquiry, which was held at the Royal Courts of Justice, was prompted by the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
It heard evidence from victims, journalists, media executives and proprietors, police and politicians over an eight month period.
Lord Justice Leveson's report, is expected to be critical of many of those who gave evidence and suggest a new way to regulate newspapers in the future, according to BBC correspondent Nick Higham.
The open letter to Mr Cameron, said it was "highly regrettable" that articles in the press and "supporting comments from senior Conservative Party figures" had " sought to undermine the work of the inquiry and to threaten any recommendations it may make for effective regulation of the industry."
Some cabinet ministers, such as the Education Secretary Michael Gove, have suggested that new laws are not needed to control the press.
The letter went on: "To remind you once again - you said that the test of the future system of press regulation is not whether it suits the politicians or their friends in the press, but rather the public interest - including the need of members of society to be free from illegal and unethical press practices. Do we have those reassurances?"
The inquiry was set up to examine media culture, practice and ethics, with the first stage examining relationships press has with public, politicians and police.
A second part of the inquiry, looking into the extent of unlawful or improper conduct within News International and other newspaper media organisations, will not get under way until police investigations are concluded.
A Downing Street spokesman said Mr Cameron was awaiting Lord Justice Leveson's report and would then respond to his recommendations in due course.
The Observer are also running with it as their lead as well
Something that the Tories didn't want out till the conference started? Will be interesting to see how they react.
Sex Vicar fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Oct 7, 2012
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Second chance? hahahah
"You know after all those murders, police bribes, hacked computers and cellphones of dead girls I really think we should have another go at this!!!"
The tories really are a psychotically worse than worthless party, and anyone who voted for them should probably be lobotomized for the safety of future generations at this point.
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I'm not quite sure how anyone can advocate self regulation when two massive newspapers (the Star and the Express) simply decided to opt out. As a very base we need to make sure that you can't print blatantly misleading headlines which are contradicted by their articles such as the Daily Star saying that Simon Cowell was dead (he wasn't.)
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Bozzer, legrend, etc
quote:Boris Johnson's diary reveals Brooks and Murdoch calls
The publishing of the London mayor's official diary has revealed undisclosed conversations with News International (NI) executives.
Boris Johnson had phone calls with NI executives including Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch during the height of the phone-hacking scandal.
Details were revealed after a request from the BBC and the intervention of the Information Commissioner.
A mayoral spokesman said Mr Johnson did not discuss the phone hacking scandal.
The release of the mayor's full official diary shows certain appointments in 2011 were not disclosed in a list of key engagements presented to the London Assembly at the monthly Mayor's Question Time.
'Quite extraordinary'
On 28 April 2011, the mayor had a phone conversation with Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of the News of the World at the time much of the phone hacking is alleged to have taken place.
The diary, which lists more than 7,000 entries, also records a previously undisclosed telephone conversation with NI executive chairman James Murdoch on 6 May 2011.
Furthermore, the mayor met NI lobbyist Frederick Michel at City Hall on 11 May 2011 and had dinner with Prime Minister David Cameron on 17 May 2011, the diary revealed.
Lib Dem London Assembly leader Caroline Pidgeon said: "To discover that his published monthly engagements don't reflect his diary is quite extraordinary and leads to questions of why he's trying to hide some of his key engagements."
Labour London Assembly member Len Duvall said: "At the time the mayor had this pattern of contact is the time when police are investigating News International and individuals working for News International."
City Hall said some key engagements were not previously released "for commercial sensitive" reasons.
A Greater London Assembly spokesperson said: "At no point during these meetings or conversations did the mayor discuss Operation Weeting [Police investigation into phone hacking]."
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