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Police: Phone-hacking whistleblower has been found dead, death not considered suspicious

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 14:26
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Monday, July 18, 2011 9:31 AM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Wow...it's getting hairier. Given the other post is about Murdoch having a bad "week", and it's now Week 2, with a major development, thought I'd start another one:

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Police say Sean Hoare, the whistleblower reporter who alleged widespread hacking at the News of the World, has been found dead.

Police said Hoare's death at his home in England was not considered to be suspicious, according to Britain's Press Association news agency.

Hoare was quoted by The New York Times as saying that phone-hacking was widely used and even encouraged at the News of the World tabloid under then-editor Andy Coulson.

http://www.newser.com/article/d9oi7gvo3/police-phone-hacking-whistlebl
ower-has-been-found-dead-death-not-considered-suspicious.html

I can't find any better details on a quick search; I just heard it on the news. I assume more be forthcoming, 'cuz I'd like to know how he died that makes them "not consider" it suspicious. Personally, I'd rather it not be of suspicious nature; helluva karmik kick-back for doing something I consider good.

Then there's this:

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The board of British Sky Broadcasting is reported to be mulling whether to ask James Murdoch to stand down as its chairman, at least "until News International has been stabilized," according to BBC business editor Robert Peston.

[The] biggest cliffhanger is this: Will the Prime Minister, who assiduously courted their favor, be irreparably damaged by their travails? Two weeks is a very long time in British politics. The next few days could be even longer.

http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/07/18/call-scotland-yard-britain
s-prime-minister-is-in-deep-trouble/?hpt=hp_t1

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Monday, July 18, 2011 11:41 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

News Whore, er, Hoare...

These so-called "news" agencies are nothing more than fronts for intelligence agencies. Murdered "reporters" are dime a dozen.

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Monday, July 18, 2011 11:57 AM

OLDENGLANDDRY

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14194623

The BBC's initial take on the story.

Yahoo has slightly more. Unfortunately the initial lack of info will lead to the inevetable CONspiricy theories.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ex-news-world-reporter-dead-180850869.html

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Monday, July 18, 2011 2:50 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by piratenews:
News Whore, er, Hoare...

These so-called "news" agencies are nothing more than fronts for intelligence agencies. Murdered "reporters" are dime a dozen.

Don't you consider yourself a "reporter", PN?

Anyone got a spare dime? ;)

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Monday, July 18, 2011 2:50 PM

KWICKO

The death might not be considered suspicious, but the timing certainly is.

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Monday, July 18, 2011 3:15 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

This has KGB written all over it. If not them, then their tactics.

My first impulse, at least. There are others who can 'suicide' targets, on short order.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Monday, July 18, 2011 4:13 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Sounds suspicious enough to me, too bad we can't put Poirot on the case, he'd have it cleared up in no time at all.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, July 18, 2011 5:07 PM

KWICKO

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
This has KGB written all over it. If not them, then their tactics.

My first impulse, at least. There are others who can 'suicide' targets, on short order.

Think closer to home. MI5 comes to mind. They are, after all, tasked with protecting the British government.

And if they're very good at it, nobody will ever be able to prove a bit of it.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 5:56 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

KGB? What a laugh. No chance it could be any of OUR guys, or the Brits? I guess 'cuz we and they are the "good guys" or something. Far as I know, Russia hasn't suffered any outting of THEIR documents (tho' I could certainly be wrong), so they have far less reason to want him dead.

It was the timing that seemed odd to me, too. Anyone heard anything about the cause of death? I haven't watched the news today or read anything or looked for anything.

All in all, strange to say the least. I can't help wondering why there's no mention of the cause of death. Maybe they have to wait for an autopsy or something, I just find it strange.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:18 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
(CBS/AP) Scotland Yard detectives on Saturday traced the final steps of a former KGB spy turned Kremlin critic after officials determined he was poisoned by a rare radioactive substance.

A cabinet council that deals with sensitive diplomatic incidents met for a third day to discuss Alexander Litvinenko's death. A meeting Friday was chaired by Britain's top law enforcement official, Home Secretary John Reid.

Litvinenko died late Thursday at a London hospital after days in intensive care as doctors puzzled over what was destroying his immune system and causing his organs to fail.

Police said they were not yet treating the case as a murder, rather as an "unexplained death."

Britain's Health Protection Agency said Friday that the radioactive element polonium-210 had been found in his urine, and the police said traces of radiation were found at Litvinenko's home and a ritzy hotel bar and sushi restaurant he visited on Nov. 1, the day he became ill.

Polonium-210 is not a substance used in everyday research laboratories, according to a toxicologist interviewed on Saturday.

First thing that I thought of, though the means of death wasn't anywhere near the same.

Just tossing it out there, is all.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:26 PM

KWICKO

Yup, but pretty much every government has "wet work" teams for this kind of thing. And Britain's own MI5 is one of the better ones, and they definitely DO have a vested interest in protecting their government, even if it means giving Rupert an easy out.

But as I pointed out before, if they're really good, nobody will ever be able to prove it.

This guy had a known history of problems with drugs and alcohol, it's said, so it wouldn't really be that suspicious if he died of an overdose.

What struck me as odd was that he died just as his claims were being verified and he was being vindicated. I could see someone offing themselves or overdosing "accidentally on purpose" if they were being vilified or ostracized, but this should have been his moment of victory. The timing is what I find odd.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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