Posted on 07/14/2011 1:29:58 PM PDT by abb
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a probe into whether employees of News Corp. might have hacked or attempted to hack into the private calls and phone records of Sept. 11 victims and their families, according to people familiar with the matter.
The investigation was opened Thursday morning, following a request a day earlier by Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.) who heads the House Homeland Security Committee and whose Long Island district was home to many victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The investigation will try to determine whether employees of News Corp. illegally accessed the private calls, voice-mail messages, or call records of 9/11 victims or their families, these people say. It will also look into whether any News Corp. employees bribed or sought to bribe police officials to gain access to such records.
A scandal over phone hacking in the U.K. by News of the World, a publication recently closed by News Corp., has roiled the media empire and prompted a series of legal inquiries.
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch will go before UK's Parliament to answer questions on the News of the World hacking scandal. News Corp. is the parent company of The Wall Street Journal.
The Daily Mail in the U.K. reported earlier this week that News of the World reporters tried to hack the voice-mails of dead 9/11 victims, citing an unidentified former New York policeman who said he was offered money by News of the World reporters who said they would pay him to retrieve private phone calls. The unidentified former officer says he declined the offer.
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I’m thinking FOX would have restricted Beck even more after this if Beck was still with them?
Then why didn't we see an FBI investigation of the NY Times when it disclosed information gotten by illicit means?
I thought freedom of the press was an unimpeachable right in America. Remember when the SLIMES of New York published Iraq war details? No liberal outburst then.....or when the Washington comPost published the name of a CIA operative? Liberals used that to attack a conservative, but NEVER condemned the paper. How about CNN’s Tailhook lies? Regrettable, but CNN still was revered.
No sirree Bob, news organizations are SACRED.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear... I’m skeptical even about the British part of the story. What in heck would Murdoch & Co. DO with the intercepts if they got them? Publishing them would of course land them in dutch (Murdoch is not THAT stupid), and they are useful for darn little else if anything.
Soros/Media Matters HIT JOB!
will they investigate other MSM reporters for the same thing?
how many others like cnn, msnbc, cbs, nyt, wpo, yahoo, google, were doing the exact same thing?
You have proof of this, or are you merely parroting what some left-wing rag in England alleges?
It was Piers Morgan, when he was running the Mirror, who authorized the use of fake pictures showing British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. There is no one who thought he didn't know they were fake.
Murdoch bought the New of the World (and the London Times), he didn't create it.
Failure to investigate the first crime, does not make investigating the second crime wrong.
Exactly. Sorry if I misread.
“I thought freedom of the press was an unimpeachable right in America.”
Do you believe the press has the right to break into your home, place cameras in your bedroom?
Do you believe that guy had the First Amendment Right to hack into Sarah Palin’s email?
But it does prove political motivation for the second prosecution, doesn't it? Which is what this is all about.
Yes they will try....
But if they do it , you are done !
This is an act of war,”cultural” war i mean, and the answer must be proportionate at least.
Hope that Murdock will fight back and that the Tea Party,Republicans,Conservatives,independents,libertarians and all the free and sane people will stand up ...
The claims of so called “hacking” aren’t quite honest. Last night I was watching parliament argue over it in great britain. What a couple of tabloid reporters did was try one of a couple 4 digit voicemail access codes that are commonly factory installed on cell phones. Apparently the victims never set up their own access codes. I also got the impression that its pretty common behavior among journalists in Britain.
As far as the rumors of the same in the USA, I’ve got lots of rumors of wrongdoing that the FBI is welcome to investigate if they wish.
They shut down a major newspaper over the hacking of a murder victim’s voicemail.
And I will stand with Perter King in that there should be an investigation to determine if accounts in the US were hacked.
And stand alongside the Regime, too.
Cry me a river. If conservatives need Fox to survive, they're even more screwed than they know.
No it doesn't, it might prove political favoritism for overlooking the first offense. You need a lot more cases of non-prosecution of phone hacking to be able to claim this is selective prosecution.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
That’s interesting. I suspected “hacking” would turn out to be just another example of “lazy language” by the scribbling class.
I'd heard about NOTW -- didn't know there was a "major newspaper" involved too! ;-)
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