Today a second official of Scotland Yard — London’s Metropolitan Police — has resigned in the wake of a broadening scandal involving phone hacking and collusion between police, politicians and tabloid journalists. Yesterday Sir Paul Stephenson, head of Scotland Yard, stepped down just hours after former News Intl. exec Rebekah Brooks was arrested. Today, John Yates, the number two person in the department and the head of counter-terrorism, offered his resignation.<\/p>\n
These resignations involve how a former editor of the embattled News of the World<\/em> tabloid, which closed last week, was hired by the Metropolitan Police as a communications consultant. Scotland Yard is also accused of sitting on 11,000 pages of evidence for several years that — since it was opened up recently — has resulted in 10 arrests of News Intl. journalists and the resignations of three of Murdoch’s top executives. The scandal is growing closer to Prime Minister David Cameron. One of Cameron’s former aides, also a former News of the World<\/em> editor, was arrested a week ago as well, bringing the scandal up to the top level of British government. –efc<\/p>\n Here is today’s article from The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> — one of Rupert Murdoch’s papers. Les Hinton, head of Dow Jones (which publishes The Wall Street Journal<\/em>), resigned Friday, likely in an effort to prevent that newspaper from being tainted by the scandal in the event of Hinton’s arrest.<\/p>\n If you’re trying to map out who is who and what is what, here is a graphic from The New York Times<\/em> that lists the key players and their roles<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can read my coverage by emailing pholus@planetwaves.net<\/strong>. You’ll receive an autoreply with a link to the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today a second official of Scotland Yard — London’s Metropolitan Police — has resigned in the wake of a broadening scandal involving phone hacking and collusion between police, politicians and tabloid journalists. Yesterday Sir Paul Stephenson, head of Scotland Yard, stepped down just hours after former News Intl. exec Rebekah Brooks was arrested. Today, John … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[601],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}