News Corp Scandal: Scotland Yard Goes After Reporters Who Embarrassed Them

Scotland Yard is demanding that reporters in the Protector disclose the private sources that enabledthe papertobreakthe News Corp phone hacking scandal story. Law enforcement are stating the United kingdom’s Official Secrets Act –normally used against spies– inside a legal bid to find the names. It had been theGuardian’s thought in This summer thatScotlandYard had poorly handled its investigationof this news around the globe for hacking the telephone of the missing killed girl that set the scandal moving. The fallout from might accusations the police were affected byNews Corp authorities led to the ouster of top Scotland Yard officials. Additionally, it triggered Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to shut this news of theWorld, abandon itsBSkyB takeover bid and undergo the currentseries of legal and government queries. The Protector’s editor Alan Rusbridger stated”We shall resist this remarkable demand towards the utmost.” Former Work minister Tom Watsonsaid: “It is definitely an crazy abuse and completely unacceptable that, getting unsuccessful to research serious wrongdoing in the News around the globe for over a decade, law enforcement should certainly be attempting to move from the Protector.”