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Police: Phone-hacking whistleblower has been found dead, death not considered suspicious
Monday, July 18, 2011 9:31 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote: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.
Quote: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.
Monday, July 18, 2011 11:41 AM
PIRATENEWS
John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!
Monday, July 18, 2011 11:57 AM
OLDENGLANDDRY
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)
Quote: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.
Monday, July 18, 2011 3:15 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Monday, July 18, 2011 4:13 PM
RIONAEIRE
Beir bua agus beannacht
Monday, July 18, 2011 5:07 PM
Quote: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.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 5:56 AM
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:18 AM
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.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:26 PM
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