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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Cameron has said he asked coulson if he had any involvement in the phone hacking and was assured by andy coulson he had played no part in it add to that the checks made on coulson clearly came up ok and cameron employed him. Of all the issues in this whole affair i cannot help thinking gettiing bogged down in andy coulson is letting a lot of other people off a very big hook.
Now cameron has come out and said he regrets hiring the guy and in hindsight wouldn't do it again what more do people want from him.
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Quite simply they don't believe him. The background check coming up with nothing seems odd given the degree to which we now know he was involved, some of this is new evidence, but some were listed in 2009 when this story first broke. Then, before the last election, more concrete warnings were given by some members of the Lib Dems and by some people in Fleet Street. Cameron says they never got to him, instead going to aides who negated to pass it on. That seems odd to people.
That said I think that it's not a big deal. However Labour have sensed a weakness they can exploit and that is politics. There was no great annoyance when the same tactics were employed against Brown.