Cameron promises News of the World phone hack probe

[Gerald]

David Cameron has promised to set up a public inquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World.

The UK prime minister said claims that the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been hacked, with some messages deleted, were "disgusting".

But he said an inquiry must wait until police investigations were over - Labour says it should be set up sooner.

Meanwhile News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch said the allegations were "deplorable and unacceptable".

But he stood by News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of the News of the World at the time, and has faced calls for her resignation.

Mr Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, the newspaper's parent company, said in a statement: "I have made clear that our company must fully and proactively cooperate with the police in all investigations and that is exactly what News International has been doing and will continue to do under Rebekah Brooks' leadership."

He added that he was "committed to addressing these issues fully".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14036673


Note: 6 July 2011 Last updated at 19:53 GMT

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Meanwhile News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch said the allegations were "deplorable and unacceptable".

Hypocrite.

But he stood by News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of the News of the World at the time, and has faced calls for her resignation.

Publicly, maybe. Privately?

BTW: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=185213

[Gerald]

Yes I know,may blame that I'm sitting in an airplane

Hypocrite.

Not at all, it was a partial quote which misreprested what he really said.

The full quote is "these revelations are deplorable and despicable after I have spent many millions trying to keep people quiet about them"
He has a point, when you have been throwing around a hell of a lot of hush money and have having your tame politicians help you out in trying to sweep the crimes under the carpet it really is despicable that after 5 years efforts it still becomes public.

[Castout]

Speaking of cell phone

I wrote this in another site

So the plague even hit Europe huh. Here it's probably worse. Last weekend my mom cellphone was ringing and on the screen it registered it was from my sister. I accepted the phone and only could hear people conversation them being oblivious that their phone was making call. I tried to tell them but it seemed they couldn't hear me. The funny thing I then heard an advertising from the cellphone company and it wasn't from tv or radio. I don't think the call happened because someone accidentally played or hit the calling button. Back last year my phone bill from the same provider more than doubled with the same amount of usage. I checked the call list and I think there was too many of familiar numbers which I did call but they got multiplied into many different call times which I didn't use. I switched provider immediately.Fast forward another year my mother came up with the same suspicion that her billing was engineered and to reduce suspicion from their customers they used numbers that actually have been used instead some random numbers.In one word: %$%#%%%%$

[Jimbuna]

these difficult times will continue for many months ahead

Too right!!

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...king_1_3545684