Thursday, August 18, 2011

The America Connection

Oh oh, phone hacking just got closer to Murdoch's most recent nation of claimed citizenship.

James Desborough, an award-winning reporter at the former News of the World newspaper, has been arrested by officers investigating the phone-hacking scandal...

His move to the US makes his arrest, the 13th made by Operation Weeting, particularly significant. If Desborough was involved in hacking while in Britain, as police appear to believe he was, it raises the question of whether he practised those techniques in the US – and if so, whether he was the first and only News of the World journalist in the US to do so.


And the likelihood he didn't and others also did not seems pretty low.

Odds somebody in the U.S. is arrested with the cell phone records of a 9/11 family are getting higher.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

...off to the store to buy some popcorn!

pansypoo said...

certainly hacking kerry,tho ha fucked up nicely all BY HISSELF.

Montag said...

Hmm, I'm beginning to wonder if this is isn't a "well, Tony Blair and George Bush are friends, and they're spying on everyone, and we're friends of Blair and Bush, so I'm sure it's okay if we spy on everyone, too" routine.

Now, maybe, the question is whether or not ol' Tony and Georgie said, "sure, go ahead--just make sure you share with us, okay?"