With its dismissal of Ian Edmondson, News International abandoned the mantra it has chanted for four years: that
phone hacking carried out by the News of the World was the work of a «rogue reporter».
The report finds the company «deliberately» tried to «thwart» the 2005 - 6 Metropolitan police investigation into
phone hacking carried out by the tabloid.
Not exact matches
These include departmental committees, such as those for Business Innovation & Skills (which
carried out the questioning of Ashley and Green) or Culture, Media & Sport (which questioned Rupert Murdoch and others over
phone hacking), as well as cross-cutting committees such as Public Accounts (the source of the Google inquiry on tax avoidance) and Science & Technology.
Hinton, who after 52 years at the company is seen as a key Murdoch henchman, faces tough questions over whether he saw the report before he testified to a parliamentary committee that the
phone hacking scandal was
carried out by a «single rogue reporter».
«
Hacking into solicitors»
phones would be very serious indeed, and we urge the police to
carry out a full investigation,» said Hudson.