Like I said a few days ago: Anyone get the feeling that all these stories are the pilot fish before the big story breaks? There is clearly something such worse on the horizon. They have shut down the News of the World to help avoid some of the impending scandal.
I suspect it's related the the story about the detective channel 4 had a few days ago. I wonder if The News of the World interfered with the murder investigation to protect a private investigator they had on staff? That would be my theory,
and I stress theory, given the information we know so far. First of all here is an interesting comment from
The Telegraph's Peter Oborne:
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Originally Posted by Peter Oborne
The Prime Minister cannot claim in defence that he was naively drawn in to this lethal circle. He was warned – many times. Shortly before the last election he was explicitly told about the company he was keeping. Alan Rusbridger – editor of The Guardian newspaper, which has performed such a wonderful service to public decency by bringing to light the shattering depravity of Mr Murdoch’s newspaper empire – went to meet one of Mr Cameron’s closest advisers shortly before the last election. He briefed this adviser very carefully about Mr Coulson, telling him many troubling pieces of information that could not then be put into the public domain.
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Here is what Alan Rusbridger said
yesterday in response to the above claim:
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Originally Posted by Alan Rusbridger
Peter Oborne is right. Before the election it was common knowledge in Fleet Street that an investigator used by the NoW during Andy Coulson's editorship was on remand for conspiracy to murder. We couldn't report that due to contempt of court restrictions, but I thought it right that Cameron should know before he took any decisions about taking Andy Coulson into Number 10. So I sent word via an intermediary close to Cameron. And I also told Clegg personally.
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So Andy Coulson had used a private investigator who was on remand for conspiracy to commit murder according to the editor of The Guardian.
Now let's visit those
Channel 4 News allegations again:
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Originally Posted by Channel 4 News
Exclusive: Channel 4 News learns that a Metropolitan Police detective was put under surveillance by News of the World journalists and his personal details targeted.
The surveillance operation came during a crucial murder investigation which implicated private investigators who had alleged links to News International.
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Did The News of the World seek to interfere in a murder case by putting surveillance on, possibly in an attempt to discredit, the investigating officer to protect a murder suspect whom they had connections with?