crackerjack
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The police clearly failed to even attempt to do their job.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/22/phone-hacking-police-editor-dinners
The police clearly failed to even attempt to do their job.
Has it been cleared up for definite if the tax payer is paying for his solicitors yet?
Which they interpret as meaning that the taxpayer is paying. Something they find particularly cheeky as Carter-Ruck are claiming that the Graun caused Yates “considerable personal and professional distress and embarrassment”. Their point being - why the fuck should the public care about his personal embarrassment?We asked the Metropolitan Police Authority, which eventually came back with a brief statement: “The Authority can approve expenditure on legal advice under strict criteria, subject to limits on the amount to be disbursed, for cases which have the potential to bring the organisation as a whole into disrepute.”
In other words it looks very bad for Yates. Good.
Nevertheless, as a result of her evidence to the select committee, Brooks also became a target for the police. The Home Office warrant to intercept her phone calls is likely to have been signed by the then home secretary David Blunkett, whose own voicemail messages were then intercepted by the News of the World, according to journalists who worked there. It is understood that Brooks was warned that her phone was being tapped but she believed it was related to the leaking of the Hutton report to the Sun.