Rupert Murdoch's Editor and Chief, of his now shuttered newspayer, testified that it was easy to HACK PEOPLES VOICEMAILS.  Is that why she and Murdoch's other editors allowed listening into BRITS voicemails??  I guess if it was so easy, she she should be held accountable, right??  Another MSM distraction??  Nope!  Came from the UK but has tentacles 'across the pond'.


Rebekah Brooks said it was 'easy to listen to voicemails', hacking trial hears
Eimear Cook, ex-wife of Colin Montgomerie, accused of lying under oath over statements made about lunch with Brooks


guardian.com, Monday 25 November 2013 13.20 EST

Rebekah Brooks

Rebekah Brooks allegedly told Elmear Cook that it was easy to listen to famous people's voicemails.

Eimear Cook, the ex-wife of golfing star Colin Montgomerie was accused of repeatedly lying under oath about a lunch with Rebekah Brooks in which she claimed the former News International chief excutive had told her how easy it was to hack phones.

In a tense and prolonged exchange at the Old Bailey on Monday, counsel for Brooks said Cook had fabricated parts of her witness statement to the police, including a claim that the former publishing boss had told her about an assault on her ex-husband Ross Kemp.

Brooks' counsel Jonathan Laidlaw, QC, asked her had she done this to increase the compensation she received as part of a civil claim she made against News International for phone hacking.

"Is that why you made things up?" he asked. "To get more money as a result in the settlement?".

She "categorically" denied she had lied on oath. "I have no reason to lie," she said.

Cook, who was married to the former European Ryder Cup team captain for 14 years from 1990, met Brooks at the suggestion of friends after finding herself the subject of press intrusion following the break up of her marriage, she said.

Describing the private lunch, which took place at the Knightsbridge home of mutual friends, Cook told the jury the four had enjoyed lighthearted conversation about celebrities.

"We discussed a lot of public figures, people in the media in a gossipy fun way. I think I remember we were laughing because she had been in her own newspaper because she had a domestic row with her husband and that it had made her newspaper and we were laughing at the irony of it."

She added: "The bit I remember most was the topic of how easy it was to listen to their voicemails as long as they had not changed their factory settings on their pin code.

"She [Brooks, who was then Rebekah Wade] said that it was so easy to do and she couldn't believe that famous people who have all these advisers did not know they needed to change their pin code to make their voicemail secure".

Cook said Brooks told her Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney, who were engaged at the time, had had a row at a New York hotel and she had thrown her ring out of the window.

"It was in parentheses about the phone hacking. I was under the impression she was talking about Paul McCartney's phone not having its pin code changed," she said.

Who cares?

Quote from: The Boo Man... on November 25, 2013, 11:32:52 AM
Who cares?

Yet when the WH does it to our reporters, not a freakin word.

Hang on. SciFi fool criticized us for not covering this because Murdoch owns FOX News. And now this clown starts a thread on it.

What a coincidence...

Quote from: The Boo Man... on November 25, 2013, 12:01:54 PM
Hang on. SciFi fool criticized us for not covering this because Murdoch owns FOX News. And now this clown starts a thread on it.

What a coincidence...

According to numb nuts, we're censoring.

Quote from: Solar on November 25, 2013, 12:07:12 PM
According to numb nuts, we're censoring.

Then why is he here? Why doesn't he scale the wall and go to the west?

Quote from: The Boo Man... on November 25, 2013, 12:09:47 PM
Then why is he here? Why doesn't he scale the wall and go to the west?

Liberal in a round room searching for the corner?

When are we getting the G.W. Bush posts?

Quote from: The Boo Man... on November 25, 2013, 11:32:52 AM
Who cares?

Perhaps, NO ONE.  But it also depends on whether it 'crosses the pond'.  Remember this was an BRITISH newspaper owned by an AMERICAN company. 

Quote from: Solar on November 25, 2013, 11:34:22 AM
Yet when the WH does it to our reporters, not a freakin word.

THAT doesn't apply to me.  I had lots of words, in the NEGATIVE, to say about the AP guys phone calls geing monitored.  No different from this Pres. than the previous last Pres--for me.  ZERO, ZIP, NADA on this subject.

But in this case, Murdoch newspapers Editors allowed reporters to hack a DEAD CHILD'S phone, leaving her parents in HOPE that she was alive since 'activity' showed up on her phone (as well as Scotland Yard).  This Murdoch newspaper hacked the LABOUR PRIME MINISTER'S phone and was about to break story in which the PM and his wife TRAGICALLY just found out there infant daughter had a deadly disease and weren't ready to tell the world and were going to be outed.

Quote from: cpicturetaker12 on November 25, 2013, 12:42:40 PM
THAT doesn't apply to me.  I had lots of words, in the NEGATIVE, to say about the AP guys phone calls geing monitored.  No different from this Pres. than the previous last Pres--for me.  ZERO, ZIP, NADA on this subject.

But in this case, Murdoch newspapers Editors allowed reporters to hack a DEAD CHILD'S phone, leaving her parents in HOPE that she was alive since 'activity' showed up on her phone (as well as Scotland Yard).  This Murdoch newspaper hacked the LABOUR PRIME MINISTER'S phone and was about to break story in which the PM and his wife TRAGICALLY just found out there infant daughter had a deadly disease and weren't ready to tell the world and were going to be outed.

Then why don't you post this on a UK board.

Quote from: cpicturetaker12 on November 25, 2013, 12:23:40 PM
Perhaps, NO ONE.  But it also depends on whether it 'crosses the pond'.  Remember this was an BRITISH newspaper owned by an AMERICAN company.

Well so far it hasn't crossed the pond. If it does maybe we will care.

Quote from: cpicturetaker12 on November 25, 2013, 12:42:40 PM
THAT doesn't apply to me.  I had lots of words, in the NEGATIVE, to say about the AP guys phone calls geing monitored.  No different from this Pres. than the previous last Pres--for me.  ZERO, ZIP, NADA on this subject.

But in this case, Murdoch newspapers Editors allowed reporters to hack a DEAD CHILD'S phone, leaving her parents in HOPE that she was alive since 'activity' showed up on her phone (as well as Scotland Yard).  This Murdoch newspaper hacked the LABOUR PRIME MINISTER'S phone and was about to break story in which the PM and his wife TRAGICALLY just found out there infant daughter had a deadly disease and weren't ready to tell the world and were going to be outed.

I was talking about the press being dead silent over it.

Quote from: Solar on November 25, 2013, 12:12:34 PM
Liberal in a round room searching for the corner?

WE don't seem to have the biggest problem with the 'circular firing squad' off late.  According to your own about your own, Republicans have that issue for now. 

Quote from: cpicturetaker12 on November 25, 2013, 01:07:36 PM
WE don't seem to have the biggest problem with the 'circular firing squad' off late.  According to your own about your own, Republicans have that issue for now.

Nothing circular here, we have the RINO lined up against the wall.