GOP hero Chris Christie revealed his meetings with Fox News in the US (rather than being forced by a judge) but there are certainly many more secret meetings both in the US and UK between News Corp execs and politicians. It's all been much too cozy and has to stop. The Guardian:
Ed Llewellyn, David Cameron's chief of staff, last night found himself in the spotlight over phone hacking for the second time in a week after No 10 announced that he attended a Scotland Yard dinner attended by Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World.
Llewellyn and Andy Coulson, then communications director at No 10, attended a dinner hosted by Sir Paul Stephenson when he was Metropolitan police commissioner on 17 June last year.
Wallis, once Coulson's deputy at the News of the World, had been hired as a media adviser by the Met and was present at the dinner. Earlier this month Wallis was arrested by the Met as part of Operation Weeting, the main investigation into allegations of phone hacking.
