The Official Newscorp/UK end of season finale/Rebekah Brooks did 9/11 thread

He's back and balder than ever.

does he still have his beard

Inquiries inquiries inquiries:

• IPCC oversight of Operation Elveden:
Operation Elveden, looking into corruption, is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. As soon as individual suspected officers have been identified, IPCC investigators will lead an independent investigation of those officers. Both of these matters will then be considered by the Leveson Inquiry, already established by the Prime Minister.
• Review of police-press relations:
Elizabeth Filkin, the former Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, has "provisionally agreed to examine the ethical considerations that should, in future, underpin the relationships between the Metropolitan Police and the media, how to ensure maximum transparency and public confidence, and provide advice".
The management board of the Met has "agreed a new set of guidelines relating to relationships with the media, including recording meetings and hospitality and publication on the internet".
• Investigation into police corruption:
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has been asked to consider "instances of undue influence, inappropriate contractual arrangements and other abuses of power in police relationships with the media and other parties".
• Review of IPCC powers:
IPCC chief executive, Jane Furniss, has told the Home Secretary she has the power she needs for now but the Home Secretary has "commissioned work to consider whether the IPCC needs further powers, including whether it should be given the power to question civilian witnesses during the course of their investigations".
Ms May said: "Given that the IPCC can at present only investigate specific allegations against individual officers, I have also asked whether the Commission needs to have a greater role in investigating allegations about institutional failings of a force or forces."

Oh and:

16.35 Breaking: David Cameron will now curtail his Africa trip - having already shortened it once and insisted earlier today he would not do so again.

At this rate he'll be refused reentry as an undesirable.

i so want one of the principles to try to flee the country while they can

Re: Hague. Let's put the (purely platonic) bed sharing with attractive pouting young (male) political "advisers" to one side then, shall we?

PRINCIPALS

godfkndamnit

The principles themselves having long since gone.

http://www.5chicago.com/theindex/jamie-principle/photo.jpg

4.38pm: My colleague Vikram Dodd tells me that the home affairs committee has Lord Macdonald, director of public prosecutions at at the time of the first phone hacking prosecution in 2007, to appear before it tomorrow in a special session. Macdonald has been criticised because he has subsequently agreed to do some work for News International.

it is seriously difficult to keep all this shit straight

Everyone is arresting everyone else before they resign during a committee appearance.

isn't it gonna be quicker to pull in everybody who hasn't been paid by News Corp?

The room would be empty.

Meanwhile, speaking of committees and things:

Paul Dacre tells draft defamation bill committee he's never encountered hacking or blagging by journalists

or anything resembling "journalism", in his newsroom.

Related:

Dacre, when asked re hacking and blagging ever justified:"Goodness me, deep waters"

Who is this guy again? Besides being the Daily Mail doofus and all.

Uh

No.10 confirms it missed off PM media meetings list last wk a "social engagement" with RBrooks."It was administrative error"

https://twitter.com/#!/paulwaugh/status/92974742927196160

Way too many of those admin errors IMO.

Betting odds do not mean "lol he might go"

It's basically the lowest price that can attract people to buy a ticket for lolreasons...

14.54 Boris Johnson appears to have lost his temper at a question from Jon Snow

Hold up, the Night's Watch is now involved?!?

so anticipating dacre's downfall - surely imminent, if he had nothing to hide surely he'd be GOING IIIIINNNNN right now

Hold up, the Night's Watch is now involved?!?

DJP already got there. ;-)

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL, R4 PM just opened with this as the intro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE

Oh dear, looks like Murdoch using his goons to send Cameron a 'don't fuck with me' message:

Sky's Adam Boulton says there was a social meeting between Ms Brooks, James Murdoch and the Prime Minister that was not originally revealed.

i need this to be the intro music to a news programme v soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_-GiF77St0

5.23pm: John Yates has just given a public statement about his resignation. Here are the key points.

• Yates said that he had acted "with complete integrity" and that his conscience was clear.

• He said that "ill-informed" and occasional "downright malicious gossip" was making it impossible for him to carry on doing his counter-terrorism job.

• He said that he looked forward to the inquiry showing that he behaved properly when he reviewed the phone hacking case in 2009.

• That would be £500 please

Mr Miliband continues on Mr Cameron: "He must take ultimate responsibility for the conduct of his Government. I'm not saying he should go, but he should come clean."

Way too many of those admin errors IMO.

it would be totally hypocritical of me not to give anyone a free pass for admin errors at all times :/

Yes, but your admin errors really ARE admin errors.

John Yates has just given a public statement about his resignation

aka Yates' whines lodged

The ExNOTWJourno2 Twitter feed is making something of this:

Boss of the parent group of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T-Mobile is standing down for "personal reasons"

yah that is what my brother is working on, it's some wild wild stuff

I'm with T-mobile, do you think I could use this as grounds for ditching my contract with them.

A new rush of things:

17.41 The IPCC says it is investigating four senior officers or former officers.

Quote We have today received referrals from the Metropolitan Police Authority about the conduct of four current or former senior Metropolitan Police officers. The matters referred involve:
• The conduct of the Met Commissioner in carrying overall responsibility for the investigation into phone hacking
• The conduct of Assistant Commissioner John Yates: in his review in July 2009 and overall role in relation to the phone hacking investigation; and in his alleged involvement in inappropriately securing employment for the daughter of a friend;
• The conduct of two former senior officers in their role in the phone hacking investigation.

17.33 Breaking: IPCC investigating claims John Yates inappropriately secured employment for Neil Wallis's daughter

The IPCC says it is investigating John Yates for his role in the phone-hacking investigation but also for securing inappropriate employment for the daughter of a friend. Our crime correspondent Mark Hughes says that that friend is understood to be Neil Wallis.

17.30 More info on the social engagement with Rebekah Brooks inadvertently left off the list released by Downing Street last week. Apparently it was Cameron's birthday party.

T-Mobile and Orange just merged about a year ago, so is it an Orange person or a T-Mobile person?

Vodafone are on the African jolly with Cameron BTW.

More info on the social engagement with Rebekah Brooks inadvertently left off the list released by Downing Street last week. Apparently it was Cameron's birthday party.

Holy shitbags, this is a gift that'll keep on giving.

haha otm that's a narrative right there

And now this?

BREAKING Former and current DPPs (Ken Macdonald and Keir Starmer) to give evidence to MPs on home affairs select cttee tomororrow

Sources close to the company said they expected Alexander to be followed out of the door by a "wave" of senior executives.

Though I gather this is the same Macdonald mentioned earlier.

Sky's Mark Yates says that the IPCC are not confirming that the daughter of Neil Wallis, the former NOTW deputy editor, was the person who gained employment thanks to John Yates.

"happy birthday dave!!!"

"a... shit sandwich! just what i always wanted!"

More info on the social engagement with Rebekah Brooks inadvertently left off the list released by Downing Street last week. Apparently it was Cameron's birthday party.

oh maaaaaaan, amazing

"admin error"!!! just HAPPENED to be dave's b'day!

But, but, his birthday is in October?

Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned.

Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, is said to have been found dead at his Watford home.

Hertfordshire police would not confirm his identity, but the force said in a statement: "At 10.40am today [Monday 18 July] police were called to Langley Road, Watford, following the concerns for welfare of a man who lives at an address on the street. Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after.

"The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."

???

oh christ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/news-of-the-world-sean-hoare

News of the World phone hacking whistleblower found dead

Death of Sean Hoare – who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking – not being treated as suspicious

shit got real-er

And now this?

BREAKING Former and current DPPs (Ken Macdonald and Keir Starmer) to give evidence to MPs on home affairs select cttee tomororrow
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 11:54 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

IIRC Ken Macdonald was an adulterer, what did NOTW have on him?