Looks like it is getting deeper and deeper?
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Phone hacking by News of the World and Sun journalists was known about by senior executives even as it was being denied, new evidence suggests.
News International documents released by a Commons committee say some journalists carried out illegal practices between 2001 and 2003.
But in 2008 the parent company was denying the practice went beyond one "rogue reporter".
One document suggested the position was "fatal to our case".
The evidence from the Commons committee investigating the scandal shows how the News of the World tried to keep the phone hacking case involving Gordon Taylor - the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association - under wraps.
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'Illegal inquiries'
The newly released documents also show a leading barrister warned the News of the World on 3 June 2008 that there was a "powerful case that there is (or was) a culture of illegal information access" at the News of the World.
Michael Silverleaf QC said that the allegations would be "extremely damaging to NGN's (News Group Newspapers) public reputation".
He wrote that there was "overwhelming evidence of the involvement of a number of senior NGN journalists" in "illegal enquiries" into an individual whose name is blanked out.
"In addition there is substantial surrounding material about the extent of NGN journalists' attempts to obtain access to information illegally in relation to other individuals," he said.
"In the light of these facts there is a powerful case that there is (or was) a culture of illegal information access used at NGN in order to produce stories for publication."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15544034