Royal Family e-mails hacked/ phone too- This is gonna get nasty

Emails handed to the Metropolitan Police appear to show that the News of the World paid police officers responsible for protecting the royal family in return for the personal details of household members, according to a report.

The BBC's business editor Robert Peston said that in one of the emails, the News of the World's royal editor Clive Goodman asked the paper's editor Andy Coulson for money - said to be around £1,000 - in order to purchase a copy of the so-called "green book" of royal contacts from a royal protection officer.

The green book is a confidential directory of personal contact details corresponding to members of the royal household, and is meant to be locked away.

The emails suggesting that senior journalists at the News of the World were engaging in activities that would potentially compromise royal security were uncovered by the tabloid's publisher News International in 2007, but the company failed to act upon them, only passing the damning emails onto the Metropolitan Police four years later.
http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2011/07/12/royal-family-targeted-by-news-of-the-world-report/

:rofl:

bad things happen ..... :rofl:

They have lawyers, power and money

Now if the US can only ........... oh never mind, gotta go watch the hot babes on faux news and then watch
cspan and Holder bust pot smokers.

:rofl:

Seems to me this plus the news about hacking Gordon Brown could be interpreted as a breach of national security.

Would be funny if the Rupert "Champion of the Far Right" Murdoch got renditioned.

I'd pay for that headline.

According to a source, the e-mails include requests by a reporter for sums of about £1,000 to pay police officers in the royal protection branch for the information. The phone details could have been used to hack phones of the royal family.

"There was clear evidence from the e-mails that the security of the royal family was being put at risk," the source said. "I was profoundly shocked when I saw them."

The source added that the e-mails were unambiguous signs of criminal activity at the News of the World.
"It is quite astonishing that these emails were not handed to the police for investigation when they were first found in 2007", he said.

The e-mails were not passed to the Metropolitan police until 20 June this year, when they were re-obtained - from the offices of the solicitors Harbottle and Lewis - by a recently appointed new team of News International executives

.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14105225

After her death. Then the shit will really hit the fan

straight for the ol' tree chipper. :popcorn:

Was it a tabloid or police? I don't remember.

Murdoch is in deep doggie doo.

so even if he ends up persona non grata in the UK, WE are still stuck with him...and our judicial system will give him a free pass..

Bit off more than they can chew, IMHO.

this will be what takes him down. Screwing with the others might have been okay with some, but screwing with the Royal Family will really piss the Brits off.

I'm eagerly awaiting their demise. Good riddance asshole.

Murdoch's newspapers probably lose money. Its the Sky TV system that Murdoch wanted. With all this unpleasantry, even his biggest suckups in the British Government will have to tell Murdoch to not move forward on the deal.

:popcorn:

Move from the fan!!! :evilgrin:

you really don't want to piss them off.

of the SS in the US. Imagine if the SS took the equivalent of 1000 pounds from Fox for the Obama's book of private phone numbers.
What would that bastard take for a breach in security.

This is fugging huge and must warrant investigations in the US.