Morgan Evanar
Jul 18th, 2011, 06:49:17 PM
As most of you know, there is a massive controversy because News Corp members illegally accessed voicemails of various people in England to manipulate them for the sake of a story of a murdered girl. It has come out that the police were complicit in requests for the locations of celebrities and it is likely they also had their voicemails manipulated as well.
The thread on SomethingAwful has an incredibly accurate and well maintained summary of the major players and what has happened thus far.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3425129
LulzSec The Lulz Boat
TheSun.co.uk now redirects to our twitter feed. Hello, everyone that wanted to visit The Sun! How is your day? Good? Good!
This story is developing incredibly quickly, much like an Aussie brush fire, and something new seems to emerge every 3 hours or less.
Here is a summary shamelessly ripped from SomethingAwful:
Introduction
Over the past two weeks the United Kingdom has been going through what many people are calling the UK's Watergate, or, as some excitable journalists have put it, the UK's Berlin Wall moment. As this seems to be spreading to the US and Australia I thought it's time to start a seperate thread. The background is pretty extensive, and rather than copy and paste the huge Wikipedia article about it, you can start off by reading it here
The Main Players
Andy Coulson - Editor of the News of the World from 2003 to 2007, who resigned after the Royal phone hacking scandal, and was hired by the Conservative Pary several months later to act as communications director. In 2010 he because Director of Communications for the Prime Minister, appointed directly by David Cameron. He resigned in January 2011 when more allegations came to light about phone hacking. Arrested July 8th 2011.
David Cameron - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and up to his neck in it. Directly hired Andy Coulson, apparently after his office received warnings from political allies and newspaper editors that Andy Coulson was a pretty dodgy fella, and maybe even involved with an axe murderer. Also very friendly with the Murdoch family, as all modern Prime Ministers must be, and it's widely believed the BSkyB deal was a thank you to Murdoch for his support during the election. He's pretty much been forced to shit all over his relationship with Murdoch to save his own neck, but his relationship with Andy Coulson is a major politcal Achilles' heel.
Rebekah Brooks - Editor of two News International titles, The News of the World from 2000 to 2003, and The Sun from 2003 to 2009. Currently chief executive of News International, and widely believed to know a lot more about illegal activities then she's letting on. Rupurt Murdoch apparently decided to shut down the News of the World rather than accepting her resignation, although that didn't help her at all, and just made a lot of journalists very pissed off with her. Cameron and Brooks are old friends, and live near each other in Cameron's constituency; and ignored the outcry early this year/late last year when it was announced they were having dinner together just as the BSkyB bid competition commission analysis was being put together. Resigned on 15/07/11, arrested two days later.
Rupert Murdoch - Entered the UK newspaper market with his aacquistion of the News of the World in 1968, quickly followed by the Sun. He had a very close relationship with Tony Blair's government, and then David Cameron's government, with the implication being that it's impossinle to win an election with the support of his newspaper. A real shit.
Glenn Mulcaire - A private investigator who worked for the News of the World, and was jailed in 2007 for his involvement in the interception of phone messages from Clarence House, the offical residence of the Princes of Wales. Police believe that 4000 people mentioned in documents seized by the police are likely to have been hacked by Mulcaire in an attempt to get stories for the News of the World.
James Murdoch - Rupert Murdoch's disappointment of a son. A top member of various Murdoch owned organisations, he's been widely criticised to totally failing to deal with the hacking crisis, losing a huge amount of money after buying Myspace, and generally lacking any business acumen.
Andy Hayman - In charge of the original phone hacking inquiry which decided they were too busy to properly investigate the 11,000 pieces of evidence they had gathered. On Tuesday 12/07/11 he told the Home Affairs Select Committee he thought that it would be more suspicious not to accept the hospitality of people he was criminally investigating when he went to dinner with News of the World during the investigation, resulting in the committee literally laughing in his face. Hayman resigned from the Service on 4 December 2007, following allegations about expense claims and alleged improper conduct with a female member of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and a female Sergeant, and went onto contribute to the News International title The Times.
Sir Paul Stephenson - Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and Britain's most senior police officer. He resigned on July 17th after it was revealed he hired former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis as an advisor and for having received free hospitality at a luxury health spa owned by a company for which Wallis also worked. Neil Wallis was involved in the previous phone hacking investigation, and was working for the police during a period where the Guardian and others were pushing for a new investigation. It was also alleged he was reporting back to News International while working for the police.
Minor players
Hugh Grant - In April 2011, Hugh Grant published an article in the New Statesman entitled "The Bugger, Bugged" about a conversation following a chance encounter with Paul McMullen, former journalist and paparazzo for News of the World. In unguarded comments which were secretly taped by Grant, McMullen alleged that editors at the Daily Mail and News of the World, particularly Andy Coulson, had ordered journalists to engage in illegal phone tapping and had done so with the full knowledge of senior British politicians. McMullen also said that every British Prime Minister from Margaret Thatcher onwards had cultivated a close relationship with Rupert Murdoch and his senior executives. He stressed the friendship between David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks (née Wade), agreeing when asked that both of them must have been aware of illegal phone tapping, and asserting that Cameron's inaction could be explained by self-interest:
quote:
Cameron is very much in debt to Rebekah Wade for helping him not quite win the election... So that was my submission to parliament – that Cameron's either a liar or an idiot.
When asked by Grant whether Cameron had encouraged the Metropolitan Police to "drag their feet" on investigating illegal phone tapping by Murdoch's journalists, McMullen agreed that this had happened, but also stated that the police themselves had taken bribes from tabloid journalists, so had a motive to comply:
quote:
"20 per cent of the Met has taken backhanders from tabloid hacks. So why would they want to open up that can of worms?... And what's wrong with that, anyway? It doesn't hurt anyone particularly."
Grant's article attracted considerable interest, due to both the revelatory content of the taped conversation, and the novelty of Grant himself "turning the tables" on a tabloid journalist.
Grant became something of a spokesman against Murdoch's News Corporation, culminating in a bravura performance on the BBC's Question Time in July 2011.
Neil Wallis - Former Deputy Editor and Executive editor of the News of the World until 2009, and hired by the Metropolition police to advise on public relations after previously being part of the first phone hacking inquiry. Arrested on July 14th, and his involvement with Sir Paul Stephenson, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, led to Sir Paul's resignation.
Organisations involved
The News of the World - The centre of many phone hacking allegations, opened in 1843, closed in 2011 in an attempt to save Rebekah Brooks' ass, and after advertisers abandoned it in droves. Murdoch had already planned to close the paper as a cost saving measure, so it seems like a rather cynical attempt to shut down the issue. It didn't work.
The Press Complaints Commission - Got a complaint about the media? Then why not complain to the PCC, who fails to enforce a voluntary code of behaviour, is run by the very people it's supposed to police, and is generally a worthless and toothless organisation. Former board members include Neil Wallis, recently arrested for his involvement in the phone hacking scandal. Don't expect it to be around for too much longer.
The Guardian - A centre-left liberal newspaper who persistently persued the phone hacking scandal even when everyone was telling them it was a worthless story. Nick Davies, who wrote the excellent Flat Earth News which covered the various illegal techniques used by the British press, works for the Guardian, and has been instrumental in ensuring this story didn't die.
House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee - A hilarious circus where guility as fuck police officers, journalists and News International executives squirm as a group of annoyed MPs ask them difficult questions. Highlights include various senior police officers explaining that they couldn't investigate the News of the World because the News of the World wouldn't have been co-operative and they were busy anyway. Coming soon, Rebekah Brooks and Murdoch Sr and Jr.
BSky - The major satellite and cable broadcaster in the UK, 39% of which is owned by News International, and has James Murdoch as chairman. It makes huge amounts of money, and was recently part of a takeover bid by News International, which was widely believed to be David Cameron's thank you to his friend Rupert Murdoch's support during the election. The take over bid was withdrawn, leading to much celebration.
Alleged victims
Numerous celebrities and politicians - Which no-one really cared about until....
The Family of Milly Dowler - ...until it was revealed that the mobile phone of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been backed, and voice mail messages deleted to make room for even more messages from her desperate friends family, which created the false impression Milly was deleting those messages, and that she was alive. Except she wasn't, she had been brutally murdered. The public revlusion at these revelations led to the situation we're in now.
The families of other horrific crimes - Pretty much anyone who was vaguely interesting or involved with well known crimes.
UK Soldiers' relatives - The News of the World are alleged to have intercepted phones belong to dead British soldiers after their numbers were found in the files of the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. In response to the allegations, The Royal British Legion announced that it would suspend all ties with the News of the World, dropping the newspaper as its campaigning partner.
The Royal Family - Some email messages were found suggesting Jonathan Rees, a private investigator made requests for sums of around £1,000 for contact details of senior members of the Royal Family and friends.
Gordon Brown - Gordon Brown alleged his bank account was accessed by The Sunday Times in 2000 and that The Sun gained private medical records about his son, Fraser. Rebekah Brooks called Brown to tell him that The Sun was going to reveal that his son had cystic fibrosis, and tried to persuade him not to spoil the newspaper's exclusive by announcing it himself first.
John Yates - Assistant Commissioner in the London Metropolitan Police Service, John Yates revealed his phone was hacked between 2004 and 2005 on 12 January 2011. Part of the team that investigated the original hacking allegations. Also hired Neil Wallis, and resigned on July 18th.
The families of 9/11 victims - Currently being investigated by the FBI, a brewing shitstorm is there ever was one.
I'll update the above as things progress, and if I've missed anything let me know.
The future
On Tuesday July 19th James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, and Rebekah Brooks have been summoed to appear before the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee. Both Murdochs refused to appear, until someone pointed out to them they looked like massive shits already, and refusing something like that isn't a good idea, especially when the Sergeant of Arms of the Houses of Parliament is going to issue you with a summons in person, and your refusal would set a legal precedent. Various sites will live stream it, once the schedule for the day is confirmed I'll post it here.
Operation Weeting, the police investigation into the phone hacking affair will continue, and is likely to last for a very long time. So far the police have contacted only 170 of the 3,870 people named in Glenn Mulcaire's files to date, and there's over 11,000 pages of evidence, and they've not even started of the allegations of email hacking and other crimes.
Operation Elveden will focus on illegal payments made to the police by newspapers, and is running alongside Operation Weeting.
Lord Justice Leveson has been asked by the government to lead two inquiries, with a remit to look into the specific claims about phone hacking at the News of the World, the initial police inquiry, allegations of illicit payments to police by the press, and the culture and ethics of the British media. It will have the power to compell witnesses to attend, and for evidence to be given under oath. It's likely to last over a year, and will involve all newspapers, not just the News International titles. It promises to be pretty explosive stuff, and the Murdoch's will almost certaintly be expect to attend and give evidence.
Videos
If you can't be bothered to read all that shit, here's a couple of those wacky Taiwanese news videos to help you catch up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGegvzU9S8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4wMboDH7M
Some other great video found by Pandachops:
Here's Hugh v John Gaunt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYunTPBWqgw
Steve Coogan v living embodiment of the shambling tabloid press: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUjrIn6OzJA
And Ed Miliband's face: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmXZkTbyLzo#t=424s
Andy Hayman doth protest too much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfI40CF9_yw
Fox News being awful as usual
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtC4gT-_Nj0
The Daily Show also has their own summary.
Hugh Grant explaining how he exposed hacking.
Former NotW journalist Paul McMullan explaining how he drove a woman to suicide through hack journalism.
Other stuff
Operation Motorman's report, which previously investigated allegations of offences under the Data Protection Act by the British press, revealed it was endemic, and was promptly ignored by everyone
Recommended blogs and Twitter accounts
@fieldproducer regulary updates on what's going on, and has plenty of friends in the media.
Bloggerheads is doing some interesting posts picking through specific stories from the News of the World from the mid-2000s archive which are fairly blatant about the methods they were using.
If there's anyone who wants to expand on what's happening in the US and Australia then please feel free to contribute.
Also, as there's going to be various live committees and hearings those can be TV IV'd, and try your best to provide live links that can be watched globally.
For the purposes of this thread "phone hacking" refers to any illegal interception or accessing of private phone messages or calls, regardless of the methods used.
The thread on SomethingAwful has an incredibly accurate and well maintained summary of the major players and what has happened thus far.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3425129
LulzSec The Lulz Boat
TheSun.co.uk now redirects to our twitter feed. Hello, everyone that wanted to visit The Sun! How is your day? Good? Good!
This story is developing incredibly quickly, much like an Aussie brush fire, and something new seems to emerge every 3 hours or less.
Here is a summary shamelessly ripped from SomethingAwful:
Introduction
Over the past two weeks the United Kingdom has been going through what many people are calling the UK's Watergate, or, as some excitable journalists have put it, the UK's Berlin Wall moment. As this seems to be spreading to the US and Australia I thought it's time to start a seperate thread. The background is pretty extensive, and rather than copy and paste the huge Wikipedia article about it, you can start off by reading it here
The Main Players
Andy Coulson - Editor of the News of the World from 2003 to 2007, who resigned after the Royal phone hacking scandal, and was hired by the Conservative Pary several months later to act as communications director. In 2010 he because Director of Communications for the Prime Minister, appointed directly by David Cameron. He resigned in January 2011 when more allegations came to light about phone hacking. Arrested July 8th 2011.
David Cameron - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and up to his neck in it. Directly hired Andy Coulson, apparently after his office received warnings from political allies and newspaper editors that Andy Coulson was a pretty dodgy fella, and maybe even involved with an axe murderer. Also very friendly with the Murdoch family, as all modern Prime Ministers must be, and it's widely believed the BSkyB deal was a thank you to Murdoch for his support during the election. He's pretty much been forced to shit all over his relationship with Murdoch to save his own neck, but his relationship with Andy Coulson is a major politcal Achilles' heel.
Rebekah Brooks - Editor of two News International titles, The News of the World from 2000 to 2003, and The Sun from 2003 to 2009. Currently chief executive of News International, and widely believed to know a lot more about illegal activities then she's letting on. Rupurt Murdoch apparently decided to shut down the News of the World rather than accepting her resignation, although that didn't help her at all, and just made a lot of journalists very pissed off with her. Cameron and Brooks are old friends, and live near each other in Cameron's constituency; and ignored the outcry early this year/late last year when it was announced they were having dinner together just as the BSkyB bid competition commission analysis was being put together. Resigned on 15/07/11, arrested two days later.
Rupert Murdoch - Entered the UK newspaper market with his aacquistion of the News of the World in 1968, quickly followed by the Sun. He had a very close relationship with Tony Blair's government, and then David Cameron's government, with the implication being that it's impossinle to win an election with the support of his newspaper. A real shit.
Glenn Mulcaire - A private investigator who worked for the News of the World, and was jailed in 2007 for his involvement in the interception of phone messages from Clarence House, the offical residence of the Princes of Wales. Police believe that 4000 people mentioned in documents seized by the police are likely to have been hacked by Mulcaire in an attempt to get stories for the News of the World.
James Murdoch - Rupert Murdoch's disappointment of a son. A top member of various Murdoch owned organisations, he's been widely criticised to totally failing to deal with the hacking crisis, losing a huge amount of money after buying Myspace, and generally lacking any business acumen.
Andy Hayman - In charge of the original phone hacking inquiry which decided they were too busy to properly investigate the 11,000 pieces of evidence they had gathered. On Tuesday 12/07/11 he told the Home Affairs Select Committee he thought that it would be more suspicious not to accept the hospitality of people he was criminally investigating when he went to dinner with News of the World during the investigation, resulting in the committee literally laughing in his face. Hayman resigned from the Service on 4 December 2007, following allegations about expense claims and alleged improper conduct with a female member of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and a female Sergeant, and went onto contribute to the News International title The Times.
Sir Paul Stephenson - Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and Britain's most senior police officer. He resigned on July 17th after it was revealed he hired former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis as an advisor and for having received free hospitality at a luxury health spa owned by a company for which Wallis also worked. Neil Wallis was involved in the previous phone hacking investigation, and was working for the police during a period where the Guardian and others were pushing for a new investigation. It was also alleged he was reporting back to News International while working for the police.
Minor players
Hugh Grant - In April 2011, Hugh Grant published an article in the New Statesman entitled "The Bugger, Bugged" about a conversation following a chance encounter with Paul McMullen, former journalist and paparazzo for News of the World. In unguarded comments which were secretly taped by Grant, McMullen alleged that editors at the Daily Mail and News of the World, particularly Andy Coulson, had ordered journalists to engage in illegal phone tapping and had done so with the full knowledge of senior British politicians. McMullen also said that every British Prime Minister from Margaret Thatcher onwards had cultivated a close relationship with Rupert Murdoch and his senior executives. He stressed the friendship between David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks (née Wade), agreeing when asked that both of them must have been aware of illegal phone tapping, and asserting that Cameron's inaction could be explained by self-interest:
quote:
Cameron is very much in debt to Rebekah Wade for helping him not quite win the election... So that was my submission to parliament – that Cameron's either a liar or an idiot.
When asked by Grant whether Cameron had encouraged the Metropolitan Police to "drag their feet" on investigating illegal phone tapping by Murdoch's journalists, McMullen agreed that this had happened, but also stated that the police themselves had taken bribes from tabloid journalists, so had a motive to comply:
quote:
"20 per cent of the Met has taken backhanders from tabloid hacks. So why would they want to open up that can of worms?... And what's wrong with that, anyway? It doesn't hurt anyone particularly."
Grant's article attracted considerable interest, due to both the revelatory content of the taped conversation, and the novelty of Grant himself "turning the tables" on a tabloid journalist.
Grant became something of a spokesman against Murdoch's News Corporation, culminating in a bravura performance on the BBC's Question Time in July 2011.
Neil Wallis - Former Deputy Editor and Executive editor of the News of the World until 2009, and hired by the Metropolition police to advise on public relations after previously being part of the first phone hacking inquiry. Arrested on July 14th, and his involvement with Sir Paul Stephenson, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, led to Sir Paul's resignation.
Organisations involved
The News of the World - The centre of many phone hacking allegations, opened in 1843, closed in 2011 in an attempt to save Rebekah Brooks' ass, and after advertisers abandoned it in droves. Murdoch had already planned to close the paper as a cost saving measure, so it seems like a rather cynical attempt to shut down the issue. It didn't work.
The Press Complaints Commission - Got a complaint about the media? Then why not complain to the PCC, who fails to enforce a voluntary code of behaviour, is run by the very people it's supposed to police, and is generally a worthless and toothless organisation. Former board members include Neil Wallis, recently arrested for his involvement in the phone hacking scandal. Don't expect it to be around for too much longer.
The Guardian - A centre-left liberal newspaper who persistently persued the phone hacking scandal even when everyone was telling them it was a worthless story. Nick Davies, who wrote the excellent Flat Earth News which covered the various illegal techniques used by the British press, works for the Guardian, and has been instrumental in ensuring this story didn't die.
House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee - A hilarious circus where guility as fuck police officers, journalists and News International executives squirm as a group of annoyed MPs ask them difficult questions. Highlights include various senior police officers explaining that they couldn't investigate the News of the World because the News of the World wouldn't have been co-operative and they were busy anyway. Coming soon, Rebekah Brooks and Murdoch Sr and Jr.
BSky - The major satellite and cable broadcaster in the UK, 39% of which is owned by News International, and has James Murdoch as chairman. It makes huge amounts of money, and was recently part of a takeover bid by News International, which was widely believed to be David Cameron's thank you to his friend Rupert Murdoch's support during the election. The take over bid was withdrawn, leading to much celebration.
Alleged victims
Numerous celebrities and politicians - Which no-one really cared about until....
The Family of Milly Dowler - ...until it was revealed that the mobile phone of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been backed, and voice mail messages deleted to make room for even more messages from her desperate friends family, which created the false impression Milly was deleting those messages, and that she was alive. Except she wasn't, she had been brutally murdered. The public revlusion at these revelations led to the situation we're in now.
The families of other horrific crimes - Pretty much anyone who was vaguely interesting or involved with well known crimes.
UK Soldiers' relatives - The News of the World are alleged to have intercepted phones belong to dead British soldiers after their numbers were found in the files of the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. In response to the allegations, The Royal British Legion announced that it would suspend all ties with the News of the World, dropping the newspaper as its campaigning partner.
The Royal Family - Some email messages were found suggesting Jonathan Rees, a private investigator made requests for sums of around £1,000 for contact details of senior members of the Royal Family and friends.
Gordon Brown - Gordon Brown alleged his bank account was accessed by The Sunday Times in 2000 and that The Sun gained private medical records about his son, Fraser. Rebekah Brooks called Brown to tell him that The Sun was going to reveal that his son had cystic fibrosis, and tried to persuade him not to spoil the newspaper's exclusive by announcing it himself first.
John Yates - Assistant Commissioner in the London Metropolitan Police Service, John Yates revealed his phone was hacked between 2004 and 2005 on 12 January 2011. Part of the team that investigated the original hacking allegations. Also hired Neil Wallis, and resigned on July 18th.
The families of 9/11 victims - Currently being investigated by the FBI, a brewing shitstorm is there ever was one.
I'll update the above as things progress, and if I've missed anything let me know.
The future
On Tuesday July 19th James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, and Rebekah Brooks have been summoed to appear before the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee. Both Murdochs refused to appear, until someone pointed out to them they looked like massive shits already, and refusing something like that isn't a good idea, especially when the Sergeant of Arms of the Houses of Parliament is going to issue you with a summons in person, and your refusal would set a legal precedent. Various sites will live stream it, once the schedule for the day is confirmed I'll post it here.
Operation Weeting, the police investigation into the phone hacking affair will continue, and is likely to last for a very long time. So far the police have contacted only 170 of the 3,870 people named in Glenn Mulcaire's files to date, and there's over 11,000 pages of evidence, and they've not even started of the allegations of email hacking and other crimes.
Operation Elveden will focus on illegal payments made to the police by newspapers, and is running alongside Operation Weeting.
Lord Justice Leveson has been asked by the government to lead two inquiries, with a remit to look into the specific claims about phone hacking at the News of the World, the initial police inquiry, allegations of illicit payments to police by the press, and the culture and ethics of the British media. It will have the power to compell witnesses to attend, and for evidence to be given under oath. It's likely to last over a year, and will involve all newspapers, not just the News International titles. It promises to be pretty explosive stuff, and the Murdoch's will almost certaintly be expect to attend and give evidence.
Videos
If you can't be bothered to read all that shit, here's a couple of those wacky Taiwanese news videos to help you catch up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGegvzU9S8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4wMboDH7M
Some other great video found by Pandachops:
Here's Hugh v John Gaunt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYunTPBWqgw
Steve Coogan v living embodiment of the shambling tabloid press: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUjrIn6OzJA
And Ed Miliband's face: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmXZkTbyLzo#t=424s
Andy Hayman doth protest too much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfI40CF9_yw
Fox News being awful as usual
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtC4gT-_Nj0
The Daily Show also has their own summary.
Hugh Grant explaining how he exposed hacking.
Former NotW journalist Paul McMullan explaining how he drove a woman to suicide through hack journalism.
Other stuff
Operation Motorman's report, which previously investigated allegations of offences under the Data Protection Act by the British press, revealed it was endemic, and was promptly ignored by everyone
Recommended blogs and Twitter accounts
@fieldproducer regulary updates on what's going on, and has plenty of friends in the media.
Bloggerheads is doing some interesting posts picking through specific stories from the News of the World from the mid-2000s archive which are fairly blatant about the methods they were using.
If there's anyone who wants to expand on what's happening in the US and Australia then please feel free to contribute.
Also, as there's going to be various live committees and hearings those can be TV IV'd, and try your best to provide live links that can be watched globally.
For the purposes of this thread "phone hacking" refers to any illegal interception or accessing of private phone messages or calls, regardless of the methods used.