The British parliamentary committee investigating allegations of phone hacking by News Corp.’s
News of the World
tabloid may recall James Murdoch for questioning, according to news reports.
The
Wall Street Journal
— which is owned by News Corp. —
reported
that John Wittingdale, head of the parliamentary committee for culture, media and sport, said the committee has obtained evidence from current and former News Corp. officials that are “completely different and contradict each other…. We are very specifically looking at whether Parliament was misled.”
Murdoch testified on July 19 that he believed the phone hacking was confined to one reporter.
An Associated Press report
said that a 2007 letter from that reporter, Clive Goodman — who was fired, convicted and sent to prison — warned that eavesdropping was widely used and that
News of the World
senior journalists had approved the practice. (Sources:
Wall Street Journal,
Aug. 16, 2011; Associated Press, Aug. 16, 2011.)
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