Well, not really, but how is it that there is no thread on this scandal going on across the pond?
tl;dr Journalists from News of the World hacked into murdered girl's cellphone and erased voicemails making her family think she was still alive. Turns out that NotW hacked 11,000 individual's phones, accounts, etc for over 10 years WITH the help of local law enforcement, Metropolitian Police aka Scotland
in Yard. Not only did MP help, but they also TOOK BRIBES and gave jobs to former journalists. The scandal even reaches the office of the Prime Minister, who enjoys the patronage of Rupert Murdoch, the real life Mr. Burns.
How this applies to the US? Well, we had something called "9/11" happen and there's a good possibility that NotW or other NewsCorp subsidaries hacked into 9/11 victim's phones as well and are currently under investigation by the FBI.
I watched the hearing today and saw Murdoch play the senile old man for about two hours, then broke character and became the mean bastard we all knew he was. His son was a stammering bullshitter that didn't know how to stfu. At the 2.5 hour mark, a comedian threw a plate of shaving cream at Roopy and missed only to get a hard smack in the forehead by Wendi Deng, Roopy's third wife. Hilarity ensues and I am completely spent from being drowned in schadenfreude.
Discuss.
tl;dr Journalists from News of the World hacked into murdered girl's cellphone and erased voicemails making her family think she was still alive. Turns out that NotW hacked 11,000 individual's phones, accounts, etc for over 10 years WITH the help of local law enforcement, Metropolitian Police aka Scotland
in Yard. Not only did MP help, but they also TOOK BRIBES and gave jobs to former journalists. The scandal even reaches the office of the Prime Minister, who enjoys the patronage of Rupert Murdoch, the real life Mr. Burns.How this applies to the US? Well, we had something called "9/11" happen and there's a good possibility that NotW or other NewsCorp subsidaries hacked into 9/11 victim's phones as well and are currently under investigation by the FBI.
I watched the hearing today and saw Murdoch play the senile old man for about two hours, then broke character and became the mean bastard we all knew he was. His son was a stammering bullshitter that didn't know how to stfu. At the 2.5 hour mark, a comedian threw a plate of shaving cream at Roopy and missed only to get a hard smack in the forehead by Wendi Deng, Roopy's third wife. Hilarity ensues and I am completely spent from being drowned in schadenfreude.
Discuss.
