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Related: About this forumTony Blair advised Rebekah Brooks on phone-hacking scandal, court hears
Tony Blair advised Rebekah Brooks to launch a "Hutton style" inquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World at the height of the scandal over the issue, according to an email that has emerged at the Old Bailey trial.
The revelation emerged in an email that was read to the jury in the hacking trial on Wednesday, and followed what Brooks said was an hour-long phone call.
According to the email, sent the day after the News of the World's final issue and six days before Brooks was arrested, Blair also told her he was "available" to her and Rupert and James Murdoch as an "unofficial adviser" on a "between us" basis....
He said the inquiry would be "Hutton style" a reference to Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death of David Kelly and would "clear" her, but warned that "shortcomings" would have to be accepted as a result of the report....
(More at link):
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/19/tony-blair-rebekah-brooks-phone-hacking
T_i_B
(14,749 posts)It just goes to show what a whitewash the Hutton enquiry really was.
I really do think that the effect Tony Blair has had on British democracy has been pretty disasterous.
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)... but I'm not.
Nothing this man does would shock me now.
Asshole.
The Skin
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)What a self-important, jacked-up little shit he is...