UH OH, it wasn’t only the Murdoch papers, it was business as usual in Great Britain.
Probe of journalists’ misdeeds appears to expand beyond Murdoch papers
By Richard Allen Greene, CNNLondon (CNN) — A British police investigation into illegal activity by journalists appears to have expanded beyond Rupert Murdoch’s disgraced News of the World tabloid to many other newspapers.
The Metropolitan Police have asked the British Information Commissioner’s Office for its files from a probe into the work of a private investigator who sold illegally obtained information to a wide range of newspapers, the data-protection office told CNN Thursday.
The papers named in the Information Commissioner’s 2006 report include the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and News of the World.
A police spokesman declined to confirm what lines of inquiry the Met was pursuing as it follows up on allegations of illegal eavesdropping and police bribery by journalists.
The scandal over phone-hacking by News of the World forced the paper to close, prompted two top police officers to resign, and has put pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron, who hired a former editor of the paper to be his spokesman.
Police added 15 more officers to the investigation, boosting the existing team to 60, the officer in charge of the case said Wednesday.
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The increase comes in response to “a surge of enquiries and requests for assistance from the public and solicitors,” Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said.Police were already plowing through 11,000 pages of documents seized from a private investigator before they requested the additional files from the Information Commissioner.
The request for files from the Information Commissioner investigation came three months ago, the commissioner’s office said Thursday.
Its 2006 report, “What Price Privacy Now?,” names 31 newspapers and magazines that were clients of a private investigator who illegally obtained private information about people, usually by calling and pretending to be someone he was not.
The Daily and Sunday Mail newspapers, and the Daily Mirror and associated Sunday People, hold the top four spots. News of the World comes fifth.
The Mail and Mirror did not immediately respond to CNN requests for comment.
Piers Morgan, who now presents a CNN interview program, was editor of the Daily Mirror during part of the period covered by the report.
There is more to this story at the site and a lot more to come. It looks like someone was/is really trying to bring the Mighty Murdoch down. I’m not saying any of this was right but I am wondering if now that it looks like everyone was doing it, will Parliament be investigating EVERYONE?
