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Introduction After over a year of the Leveson Inquiry looking at "the culture, practices and ethics of the British press" you might think that the UK Phone Hacking scandal is winding up, but of course, you'd be very very wrong. Unfortunately for News Corp a far greater scandal has been brewing (yes, greater than hacking the phones of murdered children), which at the very least points to the News of the World and it's private investigator, Southern Investigations, targeting senior public figures, including billionaires, politicans, ministers, etc, for burglaries, with the items stolen being used for stories, blackmail, and manipulation. It's one of those rare occasions were the suffix -gate actually seems quite fitting. Here's some handy resources to get you all started: Previous threads I - Grandpappy Murdoch vs. Jonnie Pie Faces - July 15th - July 19th II - Murdoch vs. The World - The Inappropriate TV IV thread for July 20th - July 20th III - Murdoch vs. The World II - James Murdoch vs Early Onset Alzheimer's - July 20th - November 11th IV - Murdoch vs. The World III - Burgling MPs, Blackmailing Senior Police Officers = November 12th 2011 - September 18th 2012 Recommended reading Hackgate for Beginners - A guide to all the different aspects of the hacking scandal so far, really worth a read if you need to catch up. Alex Marunchak - Presumed Innocent - About a key figure at the News of the World who worked closely with Southern Investigations and has mysteriously avoided arrest (at the time of writing). Operation Tuleta - A Second Look - Examining the police operation that will likely be at the centre of charges relating to Hackgate 2. I'd also recommend you follow me on Twitter for the latest Hackgate 2 news, assuming you can put up with all the Syria Tweets I make.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 08:06 |
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And so to begin here's the Independent's article that links the News of the World (and Alex Marunchak) directly to the ordering of burglariesquote:Exclusive: News of the World 'ordered burglary' The Press Reform blog has also been putting together the latest news, which is well worth a read. Brown Moses fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Sep 18, 2012 |
# ? Sep 18, 2012 08:08 |
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Everyone seems to be saying this second part is going to be an even greater scandal than hacking a murdered schoolgirl's phone. Burglary of ministers for blackmail is a pretty big deal, can't wait to see what else they were upto if they thought that was fair game.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 08:10 |
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Isn't this Treason or something. I mean I expect people to go away for the rest of their lives for this poo poo.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 08:14 |
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Someone in the last thread suggested it would be sedition, but it won't be because England, Wales & Scotland abolished the common law offence of sedition for UK nationals a couple of years ago. (Although Rupert Murdoch could still be charged as an alien). Personally, I'm keen to see when this hits the BBC News website. They're obviously playing it safe for now, while nothing official is happening with the allegations, but they've been so utterly spineless in their reporting for the last year or so, I'm interested to see the timing and content of how they report this.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 08:21 |
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Last week it was the last chance for people to take civil action against the News of the World quote:Neil Kinnock takes legal action as new phone-hacking claims reach 174 Of course, this was all before it was public knowledge that there was much worse stuff going on.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 08:23 |
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Antinumeric posted:Isn't this Treason or something. I mean I expect people to go away for the rest of their lives for this poo poo. It violates God knows how many laws... these people probably could go away for the rest of their lives. Aside - in the last few pages of the last thread, hacks proclaiming exclusive about NotW using investigative company linked to murder... pretty sure Tom Watson talks about this at length in his book and that he's been banging on about this for some time. I'm embarrassed for the remaining embers of our press.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 08:28 |
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Murdoch vs. The World IV: We Don't Even Know Anymore Let the airing of Joking aside, I'm more interested in the political backlash for the targets of his blackmail. Will there be a list? Will we see people showing up at trials testifying, or being convicted of something so bad they let Rupert Murdoch blackmail them. I expect more than a few heads will roll before this is all said and done, and some of them will not be NotW or their pet PI's men.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 08:30 |
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Hong XiuQuan posted:It violates God knows how many laws... these people probably could go away for the rest of their lives. In that regard it's probably a REALLY good time to read up on the murder of Daniel Morgan, former partner at Southern Investigations who was about to reveal details of massive police corruption to a journalist but ended up with an axe in his face in a car park. The alleged journalist in question? Alex Marunchak, who went on to have a close working relationship with Southern Investigations. There's actually a lot of Freemasonary links involved, but most people are avoiding it because it makes you sound loopy even bringing the subject up.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 08:32 |
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Could this be the Milly Dowler moment?quote:Did News International order burglary of Hillsborough campaigner’s home?
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 08:58 |
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You know what's annoying? People like Nick Cohen talking about how this is all sour grapes and we need to leave the press alone etc. (I think he's done that in the past). And I like Cohen. I would have thought people like him would LIKE the poo poo cutting out of their profession, but everyone seems to think it's a big cleaning of house where everyone is a suspect. It's not hard to figure out who is a dick, and who isn't. What have these other "good" journos got to worry about?
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:08 |
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It would be interesting to see if there's any old news reports of public figures being mysteriously burgled, or having their phones and laptops stolen.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:16 |
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Brown Moses posted:Could this be the Milly Dowler moment? Come on mate, have you seen the source? You know that those loony lefties are just making poo poo up to make the fine Captains of Industry looks bad.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:16 |
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Brown Moses posted:In that regard it's probably a REALLY good time to read up on the murder of Daniel Morgan, former partner at Southern Investigations who was about to reveal details of massive police corruption to a journalist but ended up with an axe in his face in a car park. The alleged journalist in question? Alex Marunchak, who went on to have a close working relationship with Southern Investigations. What I found interesting in the Evening Standard article was Jonathan Rees claiming that the reason why Derek Haslam infiltrated them is because the Met was concerned about the investigations into Police corruption and into CIB3 in particular: Evening Standard posted:Rees — who admits he was once “very close” to Haslam — described his allegations as “nonsense”. He claims Scotland Yard asked Haslam to infiltrate SI to invent “blatant lies” and smear them at a time when the firm was uncovering police corruption on behalf of the press. Of course that the stuff people claim Morgan was killed for. With the additional claim that Rees was also in on it as mentioned above...
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:19 |
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Brown Moses posted:It would be interesting to see if there's any old news reports of public figures being mysteriously burgled, or having their phones and laptops stolen. Wasn't there a spate of burglaries against footballers while they were playing away (in Europe, not shagging someone who isn't their misses)? These were blamed on a sophisticated gang and from what I understand never solved.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:23 |
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Brown Moses posted:It would be interesting to see if there's any old news reports of public figures being mysteriously burgled, or having their phones and laptops stolen. Sarah Wollaston MP Liam Fox MP David Davies MP and that's 30 seconds of googling, there'll be loads more
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:25 |
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notaspy posted:Wasn't there a spate of burglaries against footballers while they were playing away (in Europe, not shagging someone who isn't their misses)? These were blamed on a sophisticated gang and from what I understand never solved. The Away Day Robberies
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:27 |
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I might blog about these past burglaries if I can clear my schedule, so keep em coming.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:28 |
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Ah, ok then.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:32 |
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Brown Moses posted:I might blog about these past burglaries if I can clear my schedule, so keep em coming. Helen Liddell MP quote:BURGLARS HAVE struck at the home of Helen Liddell, the Deputy Secretary of State for Scotland. A handbag containing two mobile phones and confidential contact books is believed to have been stolen. George Galloway MP notaspy posted:Ah, ok then. Even if 8/10 were organised gangs, and the other 1/10 a lucky chancer, then there's still that doubt there, especially with how big the reward for a scoop on a footballer like Gerrard/Rooney would be for a tabloid.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:39 |
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If NOTW was ordering people to break in to buildings, then maybe we can for once justify appending the suffix -gate to this particular scandal!
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:49 |
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The question you should all be asking is who was actually doing the burglaries?
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 09:51 |
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Brown Moses posted:The question you should all be asking is who was actually doing the burglaries? Was it SI who were using serving police officers for burglaries in the 80s and 90s or have I got my sleazy fuckers mixed up?
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 10:01 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Was it SI who were using serving police officers for burglaries in the 80s and 90s or have I got my sleazy fuckers mixed up? Ding!
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 10:04 |
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Brown Moses posted:The question you should all be asking is who was actually doing the burglaries?
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 10:08 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Was it SI who were using serving police officers for burglaries in the 80s and 90s or have I got my sleazy fuckers mixed up? What's the source for this?
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 10:13 |
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My hometown actually got nationwide press 25-30 years ago because the local police would get told "Hey, we're going on vacation for a couple weeks, please watch our house" and they would then rob it blind. One of the people involved was later a long-time school-board member, elected multiple times. I really, really despise my roots, if you can't tell.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 10:22 |
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It's possible David Cameron hired Andy Coulson after he was responsible for ordering burglaries that targeted members of the Labour party. If that's the case was Cameron, or other members of his government, aware of the News of the World's activities?
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 10:30 |
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Brown Moses posted:It's possible David Cameron hired Andy Coulson after he was responsible for ordering burglaries that targeted members of the Labour party. If that's the case was Cameron, or other members of his government, aware of the News of the World's activities? Oh god, considering Hunt has dragged before Leveson for his cosy relationship with NI, could he get dragged back into this again? Please, please say yes.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 10:40 |
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Why is this barely in the news today?
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 10:56 |
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This is insane. Also I'm not surprised that I had to hear about this on SA and not from the news.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 10:59 |
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Couple more stolen laptop stories Hazel Blears More than 1,000 government laptops lost or stolen, new figures show
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 11:05 |
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Truly, it never stops giving.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 11:08 |
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Gambrinus posted:What's the source for this? Private Eye's stories about the murder of Daniel Morgan is where I heard it although I think it's come up in the coverage of this as well.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 11:10 |
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Wow, stopped paying attention to this a while ago, but ordering break ins to get scoops...
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 11:30 |
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As an aside, there apparently isn't a single article on the BBC website about this. Not a peep. The last story about Southern Investigations is from May this year when the Daniel Morgan murder trial collapsed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18144543 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18154695 No peep of it in the Newspaper Review either: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19632499 Rather striking considering part of it was front page on the Evening Standard last night and was front page of the Independent today and also had some coverage in the Telegraph etc. Makes you curious why the seem to have killed all coverage of it. Libel concerns? Munin fucked around with this message at 11:36 on Sep 18, 2012 |
# ? Sep 18, 2012 11:32 |
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I would bet heavily on an unconsciously self-serving assumption that people are bored of the whole thing and it's not a story.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 11:44 |
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Brown Moses posted:Couple more stolen laptop stories Okay, I remember reading about that awhile ago and wondering, "drat what is up with the Brits loosing all that stuff?" At first I thought it was really lax attitude or incompetence coupled with a strong dose of espionage. So now the insinuation is that the press paid off law enforcement to steal documents so they could spy on government institutions, who would then turn around and bully government officials into submission over policy. Wow. Moses, is Levenson at a definite end, or could this start a WHOLE other round of hearings? Also, your work in these threads has been outstanding.
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# ? Sep 18, 2012 11:50 |
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Zephro posted:I would bet heavily on an unconsciously self-serving assumption that people are bored of the whole thing and it's not a story. Perhaps but even if it news of less interest they generally have a small note or mention, especially if it has a niche audience which would like to know. If anyone has mates at the BBC I'd be curious about the reasoning. This is all aside from the fact that these are big allegations.
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Automatic Slim posted:Moses, is Levenson at a definite end, or could this start a WHOLE other round of hearings? I was asking that same question myself, I think it's something Tom Watson or Chris Bryant might bring up, it's obviously under the remit of the Leveson Inquiry, and will probably undermine his conclusions if he doesn't consider these new revelations.
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