• Don Foster, a Lib Dem culture spokesman, has said that Dominic Grieve, the attorney general, should stop the police attempt to get the Guardian to reveal
the sources of its phone hacking stories.
Not exact matches
Hundreds
of journalists at the News
of the World, the vast majority
of whom have never
hacked a
phone in their life, are out
of work (although
sources suggest they were drinking pints
of champagne on the company card Thursday night).
[229] The BBC's Newsnight programme reported other
sources at the Sunday Mirror confirming use
of phone hacking, with one
source saying «At one point in 2004, it seemed like it was the only way people were getting scoops.»
The Guardian journalist Nick Davies described commissions from the News
of the World as the «golden
source»
of income for Rees» «empire
of corruption», which involved a network
of contacts with corrupt police officers and a pattern
of illegal behaviour extending far beyond
phone hacking.
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.
It quoted
sources saying police officers found evidence
of News Group staff using private investigators who had
hacked into «thousands»
of mobile
phones.
After sending all these things to the bank I got quite fast a
phone call: Sorry, but it's absolutely impossible to get clearance for a bigger deposit (based on the sell off
of my coins)- because Mt. Gox was
hacked as far as they know, and therefore they have to decline, since I bought my coins from «not reproducible
sources»... WTF!?