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Murdoch’s Paper Had Three Who Knew of Phone Taps
July 15, 2009
(Bloomberg)Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World had at least two journalists, in addition to another sent to jail, who knew the paper was using a private investigator to tap phones, Guardian journalist Nick Davies told lawmakers.
Davies, who on July 8 reported that the newspaper owned by News Corp. paid more than 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) to settle lawsuits from people whose phone messages had been intercepted, today presented Parliament’s Culture Committee with an e-mail that he said showed at least three people at the paper were aware of the phone tapping.