New york times hacking scandal

A full list of supporters is available here. American Progress would like to acknowledge the many generous supporters who make our work possible. Center for American Progress News Corp. As Carr notes, with some credulity: If this happened in any other industry — the banking sector during the financial crisis, the oil companies after the BP spill, or Blackwater during the Iraq war — you would expect to see a full-court press by journalists seeking to shine a light on a corrupt culture allowed to run amok.

As The New York Times report on the recent arrests put it, we have not only: … industrial-scale phone hacking , but also checkbook journalism that is alleged to have included payments rising into the tens of thousands of dollars to public officials, including police and prison officers, and a cover-up that prosecutors say persisted long after the heat of public anger was focused on the miscreants. Eric Alterman Senior Fellow. Aug 2, Eric Alterman. Aug 23, Eric Alterman.

You Might Also Like. Jan 6, Eric Alterman. Dec 2, Eric Alterman. Nov 3, Gadi Dechter. Arrested on July 14 on suspicion of involvement in phone hacking and bribery of police officers. He worked with Scotland Yard as a media consultant from October to September , a role that was not revealed until after his arrest, and is said to have reported back to News International about the hacking case during this period. Arrested again on July 8 , he was chief reporter covering the royal family.

He served four months in jail after pleading guilty in January to hacking the phone messages of aides to the royal family. Served six months in jail for his role in the hacking scandal of He was hired by Clive Goodman. Revelations from his private notes, seized by police for the initial investigation, are at the center of many of the new allegations.

Arrested on April 5 as part of the investigation into phone hacking. He was fired in January after a forensic computer specialist found three e-mail messages sent to Mr.

Edmundson with PIN codes for accessing voice mail. When The News of the World moved offices in , the computer Mr. Edmondson used was destroyed in what the company described as a standard procedure. Arrested on April He was hired by Andy Coulson in and was said to have worked closely with Ian Edmundson. Arrested on Aug. Was assistant editor under Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. His name appears on a contract with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire that has been of great interest to the parliamentary committee investigating the phone hacking.

On July 21 he surfaced in Florida , saying he was talking to the British police about the investigation and preparing to return to Britain. As managing editor of The News of the World for 22 years until , he was responsible for the paper's finances during the period in question. In testimony to Parliament, Rebekah Brooks said all payments to private investigators would have gone through his office. James and Rupert Murdoch said they did not know whether his departure, immediately before new reports of phone hacking surfaced, was related to those accusations.

As a rule it is rarely a promising development when reporters start asking if the prime minister should resign. The wonder is not that the question was answered in the negative but that it was asked at all.

The inconceivable is now conceivable. Nothing will ever be quite the same again. Michael Gerson at The Washington Post was one of them. Starting at [Wednesday morning], Cameron took practice questions from his advisers. His speech to Parliament began before noon. Eventually, he fielded minutes of questions from members of Parliament. But Cameron gave an assured performance — a successful blend of contrition and defiance. No prime minister, even tangentially, wants to be involved in a scandal that somehow involves Rupert Murdoch; a private investigator with a criminal past; the resignation of the head of the Metropolitan police; the voice mails of a murdered teenage girl; a suddenly deceased whistle-blower; an arrested newspaper editor; and a lawsuit by Jude Law.

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