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Reuters reports — British Prime Minister David Cameron was among top politicians who sent sympathetic messages to Rebekah Brooks when she was forced to resign as chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's U.K. newspaper group over phone-hacking, she told an inquiry on Friday.
Tabloid editor got free horse from UK police force
Brooks is a former editor of the News of the World, which Murdoch shut last July when it emerged its journalists had hacked into the voicemail of public figures and a murdered schoolgirl. She was appearing at a judicial inquiry into press ethics to answer questions about her friendships with British politicians.
VIDEO: Brooks confirms Cameron ties amid scandal
The Leveson Inquiry's lead lawyer, Robert Jay, cut straight to the chase as Brooks began her day-long testimony, pressing her for names of politicians who had expressed their sympathy when she was caught up in the hacking storm in July 2011. At first Brooks sought to evade the question, but eventually said:
"I received some indirect messages from Number 10, Number 11, the Home Office, the Foreign Office." Numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street are the prime minister's and finance minister's offices respectively. Read the full story.
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Leave it to the Brits to twist a phone hacking scandal into an inquest into who some tart was connected to in the government. Ah well, they've been nervous ever since Christine Keeler.
The scoundrels commute back and forth across the pond.....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/06/leveson-murdoch-cameron-brooks-privilege
Hope she serves time.
Thanks for the link--good article.
The UK government leaders are as corrupt as any of the governments in eastern europe or the middle east. You can own the government of the UK with money, their constitution has more holes than the US constitution and our whole government system in the US runs on who has the most money. Watch the votes of the courts.
The Murdocks have used their media outlets to gain political favors since Rupert's father established his first 'news'paper in Australia. They print whatever it takes to get those favors and it brings them a heafty profit too.