Scotland Yard and the UK Guardian- unprecedented!

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/16/phone-hacking-met-court-order
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In an unprecedented legal attack on journalists' sources, Scotland Yard officers claim the act, which has special powers usually aimed at espionage, could have been breached in July when reporters Amelia Hill and Nick Davies revealed the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone. They are demanding source information be handed over.

The Guardian's editor, Alan Rusbridger, said on Friday: "We shall resist this extraordinary demand to the utmost".

Tom Watson, the former Labour minister who has been prominent in exposing hacking by the News of the World, said: "It is an outrageous abuse and completely unacceptable that, having failed to investigate serious wrongdoing at the News of the World for more than a decade, the police should now be trying to move against the Guardian. It was the Guardian who first exposed this scandal."

The NUJ general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, said: "This is a very serious threat to journalists and the NUJ will fight off this vicious attempt to use the Official Secrets Act … Journalists have investigated the hacking story and told the truth to the public. They should be congratulated rather than being hounded and criminalised by the state.
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Wow! This is interference on steriods.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Republicon Family Propaganda Values - Brit style

Scuzzbaggery (R) up the wazoo (R).

[Dawson Leery]

2. At this point Scotland Yard CANNOT be trusted in ANY matter.

[malaise]

3. Exactly

They were part of the coverup - the shite will soon hit the fan.

[truebrit71]

5. There was definitely some shady things going on..

...but picking a fight with an organisation that buys it's ink by the drum is not a wise move...the fuzz would have been much better off congratulating them for doing a better job than they did...

[DCKit]

8. +1. Anyone who buys this load of BS has News Corp. in their IV drip.

This is going to backfire spectacularly on the PoPo.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Only the UK can pass that judgement.

Got a link to confirm the overall consensus of the UK on that subject ?

If the Guardian does not come up with an answer at least one of their reporters is likely to get 12 months for contempt of court.

The Act does cover unauthorised disclosures. What may be at stake here is the integrity of the case against News
Internional and co. on the subject of Milly Dowler specifically.

[aquart]

4. What is NUJ?

[truebrit71]

6. National Union of Journalists

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[malaise]

7. National Union of Journalists

http://www.nuj.org.uk/