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News Corp was sent a letter by U.S. prosecutors investigating foreign bribery, requesting information on alleged payments employees made to U.K. police for tips, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The letter is part of an effort by the U.S. Justice Department to determine whether News Corp. violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, according to the person, who declined to be identified because the matter isn’t public. News Corp. fell 1.7 percent on the news.
The inquiry advances an existing U.S. probe that is reviewing claims that victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had their phones hacked by News Corp. employees. The letter doesn’t carry the same legal force as a grand jury subpoena, which would compel a response under law.
Oh that is awesome!
And here I thought all of the good news this September was going to be about uncovering the truth about Sarah Palin.
(H/T to Alaska WTF)
May this just be the first tremors in breaking open the cesspool that is Faux News.
ReplyDeleteThat is great news! Game on!
ReplyDeleteAndrew is having NONE of this MSM dodging crap:
ReplyDelete"Unattributed Crap"
That's Howie Kurtz's view of a book he hasn't even read. And why should he? Like every other MSM reporter (think Mike Allen's immediate dismissal of the book before reading a word of it), he knows already there is nothing in it, because it has anonymous sources and dares to write about the nitty-gritty reality of one of the biggest phonies in American political history. Yes, the Beltway is suddenly complaining about anonymous sources!
Of course, the only serious justification for such anonymity is if those sources could face retribution - the whistle-blower excuse. You will find on any given day countless examples of anonymous sources in Politico or the WaPo that have no such justification. But McGinniss's citations did. Much of Politico's unnamed sources have power and influence. None of McGinniss's sources did. They live in small towns in a demographically small state and the Palins are demonstrably powerful and vindictive people, capable of using their influence to destroy their foes...
...But it remains, in my view, deeply relevant to this country's institutions that we fully investigate and understand how a delusional, unstable, ignorant, vicious unknown came to be selected by a tiny group of people with no serious vetting to be potentially one heart beat away from the presidency of the US. The magnitude of that error should make anyone who cares about this democracy worry. Palin is different - less qualified than anyone in history, shielded from press scrutiny, able to get away with constant lies and absurd stories because of a cowed press, terrified of being called "liberal."
more...
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/09/unattributed-crap.html
To the U.S. Justice System: Like Sarah Palin says, no rewards for bad behavior. . .put the gloves on and the heels off, pucker those pit-bull lips for the high-gloss, sharpen those elbows and let them fly - DO NOT LET NEWS CORP GET AWAY WITH BAD BEHAVIOR.
ReplyDeleteOh, and throw in a cursory examination of the Alaska Fund Trust, SarahPAC and Trig while you are at it.
Perfect timing for Rick Perry to dine with Rupert. He's palin' around with hackers.
ReplyDeleteThe better news will be when Fox shuts down their propaganda for good.
ReplyDeleteI've said it before, I'll say it again: Fox will be the mainstream outlet that breaks the Babygate story. Throwing Gov. Palin to the wolves will be a great way to deflect attention from their sins for a couple of weeks.
ReplyDeleteMurdoch and Ailes are smart cookies. I'm sure they learned long ago the utility of keeping a "designated victim" on hand at all times. And paying one million a year for a high profile victim like "Seward's Floozy" is really a very cheap insurance policy. It's money well spent as long as they remember her real purpose of employment and don't get frustrated having paid so much for "Political Analysis".
It's one thing to "go rogue" on Sen. McCain, it is quite another to do it to Roger Ailes. I'm sure he hasn't forgotten her disobedience after the Arizona shooting.
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Yay! Oh, please let there be some real dirt found.
ReplyDeleteThat would really make my year.
I'd also like to see taxes on the rich upped. Then Bill O will hang it up.
Things slowly coming to light. Murdoch's empire needs to go down in flames. The modern day Goebbels
ReplyDeleteIf there is indeed justice in this world, pus filled Roger Ailes will be doing his handcuff clad perp walk soon. Additionally, if it could be proven that FauxNews was in on the hacking scandal, they too would go the way of News of the World.
ReplyDeleteThe day that font of putrescent sewage that is FauxNews goes off the air, the average IQ of our nation will rise a couple of points.
In all honesty, Murdoch, Ailes, and all of the on air baboons at FauxNews have done FAR more to inflict genuine harm to this nation than has Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda inflicted physical wounds, but FauxNews has been eroding our values and chipping away at the foundations of our democracy. Al Qaeda cannot do anything which threatens our democracy. FauxNews already has.
I hope Ailes actually does time in prison for his crimes. If they dragged his fat ass out in cuffs I'm sure that FauxNews would STILL not cover this story.
Woo hoo - play ball!
ReplyDeleteWoo Hoo! the icing on the cake, the cherry on a hot fudge sudae!
ReplyDeleteLife is Good!