Attorney general considers investigation into News Corp.

[nmbluesky]

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday his office is looking into requests by lawmakers to investigate News Corp., the multinational media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch.
News Corp. is embroiled in a phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom that forced one of its top executives, Rebekah Brooks, to resign Friday. Now, U.S. legislators say they want to know if the company engaged in that illegal activity in the United States.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/15/us.hacking/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[malaise]

1. Get on with it Eric

NOW!!

Rec

[NightWatcher]

2. why, was Newscorp trying to get a medical marijuana license?

that's how we can stop them, someone go to their hq and sprinkle some kind on the floor and then call Holder

[PATRICK]

3. vs. J. Edgar Murdoch

When the open secret that the first FBI director had blackmail files on everyone got too open, Nixon had a meeting to deal with the problem and Hoover dealt with him probably by just sliding a few select copies across the table. From what I remember about the looks on Nixon's face going in and coming out the only mystery was what was in those particular tidbits. Hoover looked grim and powerful. He died in May of the next year and Watergate went into swing a month later.

Heady days.

Now Murdoch is not a bureaucrat. Unfortunately he is a plutocrat of information and propaganda. If he has not been doing his homework on the sharks he swims with as well as the kings,pols,journalists, law enforcement agents, etc. it would be a remarkable show of grace and etiquette. So everyone who is anyone has a reason to fear the "Empire" within. As long as he had made the world safe for cannibal capitalism and the few he could have this wide swathe of power.

But neither does he have the refined desk of power with one protector to blackmail as Hoover had his "loyal" presidents. There is no one man he can go to and raise a single shield of protection. So, I would think, now has come a Nixon panic moment. The pretext is about the scurrilous hacking of vulnerable commoners' private lives. This is connected to the more serious "influencing" of pols and police, journalists and Royals- mostly in the UK.

Now that it is naturally spreading to the US the FBI is literally jumping on the wagon- after journalists HERE are coming forth and evidence of heavy influencing of American government- as any sane person would expect- would make our corrupted system act to save its skin.

So the American pretext handed to them is the scurrilous and dastardly tapping of 911 widows and- the foreign influence laws(which Murdoch also tried to influence).

Treason, espionage, act of war, high crimes and international ones at that would make Murdoch's money influence far second to the implied blackmail. Hence the awkward and desperate attacks by governments formerly at the trough. In all the appalling dirt probably none is worse than hearing 24/7 Murdoch's defenders and "fair-minded" colleagues of the MSM trying to help distance Murdoch from his crimes.

It's sickening. Hoover never got such sycophantic service from the press but he was not one of their own either. Far from secret files stashed in Hoover's office castle, Murdoch's are a sprawling international mess. If he cannot control them he has nothing to deal with. If he dies he need make no threat to release them. They would likely begin spilling out much worse than with Hoover's own messily edited opus. That might also mean he can make no credible deal other than give up most of his ambition and retrench. Unlike Hoover, he also has his spawn involved in a life or death gambit with the powers of the world.

We know far too well how Scotland Yard and the FBI would be told to handle this. Get dirt and pressure for a deal. Mitigate damage to Murdoch. Secure the blackmail material on our beloved global VIP's. Let Murdoch go on prospering with some of that reasonable Third Way compromising. Only, the problem is, these dirtbags are too incredibly overreaching, irrational, incompetent and doomed to make "business as usual" succeed in "the real world(the one you simply CANNOT change). Hardly anything scandalous would bring anyone down these days unless the MSM, in the true Murdoch model, decided to trumpet the hypocritical charge. The chaos however would be more than an embarrassment, another note of doom from Gabriel's trumpet. A moronic meltdown.

Alas, Babylon.

[Hangingon]

4. Anything to distract from "Fast and Furious".