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now, rebecca .....

now, rebecca .....

When you were editor of the News of the World, were you aware that more than half of your news and feature reporters were paying Whittamore to use his network of blaggers to obtain confidential information?

Were you aware that your news editor, your features editor and your Scottish news editor were among those using this network? Do you remember using him yourself? The paperwork seized from his office by the ICO records you asking him to "convert" a mobile phone number into an owner's name and address.

Were you aware that Whittamore was submitting invoices to the NoW which explicitly requested payment for apparently illegal acts?

When you were editor of the NoW were you aware that your news editor, Greg Miskiw, was authorised to give a full-time contract of employment to Mulcaire?

When you were editor of the NoW, what did you do when you were told by three senior officials at Scotland Yard that one of your executives, Alex Marunchak, had used the paper's resources on behalf of two murder suspects to spy on the senior detective investigating their alleged crime?

The Guardian has disclosed that the surveillance of Det Supt Dave Cook involved the NoW in physically following him and his young children, "blagging" his personal details from confidential police databases, attempting to access his voicemail and that of his wife, and possibly sending a Trojan horse email to steal information from his computer. Did any of this come as a surprise to you, or were you told this by the police while you were editor.

When you were editor of the NoW, you published a story which referred to a message left by a recruitment agency on the voicemail of Milly Dowler, the 13-year-old schoolgirl, who was then missing without explanation. Did you read that story? Did it occur to you to question how your reporter could have known about this message?

Surrey police, who were investigating Milly Dowler's disappearance, were provided with information about that voicemail by the NoW. Was that done without your authority? Are you confident that Surrey police have no record of your being involved in the decision to tell them about that voicemail?

When you were editor of the Sun, you published confidential medical information about the illness being suffered by Gordon Brown's infant son. Did the Sun obtain that information directly or indirectly from a health worker? Did the Sun pay a health worker or anybody related to a health worker for that information or for a story related to that information?

Rebekah Brooks and the Murdochs: questions that need answering

 

tipped off?...

Yes John,

...and some astute journos have told me that it's highly likely that News International had been tipped off by the police that Rebekah was going to be arrested, thus she "resigned" before the stain got to the firm directly...

 

and for some real good (fantastic) cartoon please visit moir's at the SMH especially this one, this day 18/07/2011...

http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/opinion/cartoons/alan-moir-20090907-fdxk.html

death plus more...

A former News of the World journalist who made phone-hacking allegations against the paper has been found dead.

Sean Hoare told the New York Times the practice was far more extensive than the paper acknowledged when police first investigated hacking claims.

A police spokesman said the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious.

It comes after Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resigned after growing pressure over the scandal.

Meanwhile, computer hackers have tampered with the website of News International-owned The Sun's website, redirecting readers to a hoax story which said Rupert Murdoch has been found dead in his garden.

A group of hackers called Lulz Security, which has previously targeted games companies and US government websites, claimed responsibility via Twitter.

News International said it was "aware" of what was happening but made no further comment.

Interpreter

The Guardian is reporting that police are examining items including paperwork and a computer found in a bin near the London home of Rebekah Brooks.

It says her husband, Charlie, had tried to reclaim it and that a security guard at the apartment block called police.

Earlier, it emerged that a former senior News of the World (NoW) journalist carried out work for Scotland Yard dealing with witnesses and suspects while employed by the paper.

Alex Marunchak was employed by the Met as a Ukrainian language interpreter and was on Scotland Yard's list of interpreters between 1980 and 2000.

According to the BBC's Panorama, the former NoW Irish edition editor obtained e-mails hacked into by a private detective in 2006. Mr Marunchak denied receiving "any unlawfully obtained material".

In a statement, the Met said it would look into the matter, saying: "We recognise that this may cause concern and that some professions may be incompatible with the role of an interpreter."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14194623

not the only dog with flees?...

As a trickle of revelations has become a torrent, the company switched from containment to crisis mode. Ms. Brooks and others first made the case that other newspapers had also hacked phones, and they sought to dig up evidence to prove it, interviews show.

At a private meeting, Rupert Murdoch warned Paul Dacre, the editor of the rival Daily Mail newspaper and one of the most powerful men on Fleet Street, that “we are not going to be the only bad dog on the street,” according to an account that Mr. Dacre gave to his management team. Mr. Murdoch’s spokesman did not respond to questions about his private conversations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/world/europe/19tactics.html?_r=1&hp

we go out and destroy other people’s live...

Not many News of the World hacks can compete with their ex-editor Rebekah Brooks in the colourful character stakes. But one man who can is Greg Miskiw. He is currently thought to be somewhere in Florida - and the Met police would very much like to talk to him.

Miskiw has figured in documents taken from the homes of two private detectives at the heart of the phone-hacking scandal – Glenn Mulcaire and Steve Whittamore.

Miskiw was appointed by Brooks a decade ago as the Sunday tabloid's news editor. In this capacity, he hired the services of Mulcaire, famously offering him a £7,500 bonus in 2005 if he could deliver enough transcripts to stand up a story about Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association.

Taylor worked out that his phone had been hacked and put his lawyers onto the News of the World. Soon after, Miskiw was bundled out of Wapping and turned up in Manchester where he opened a news agency.

Since then, he has put even more distance between himself and the News International, taking himself off to Florida.

Last month, according to a report in the Independent on Sunday (above), Miskiw's former girlfriend Terenia Taras was arrested and questioned in West Yorkshire by police officers from the Met. She has been bailed to return to a police station in the autumn.

Miskiw is the source of the delightful quote that decorates the front cover of Peter Burden’s book, News of the world? Fake Sheikhs & Royal Trappings. It reads: "That is what we do - we go out and destroy other people’s lives".


Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/81829,people,news,scoop-police-want-to-talk-to-notws-greg-miskiw#ixzz1SXsnzHxP