After Rupert and James Murdoch testified about the News Corp. hacking scandal, I wrote, "I suspect many people are scrutinizing the testimony of Rupert and James to see if what they said actually rings true." That's what happened. And, it seems some of James' testimony wasn't exactly truthful. He's being called out on his lies by former employees. Even the Prime Minister, a close ally of the Murdochs, weighed in. From the NYT:
Testimony by James Murdoch to a parliamentary committee investigating the phone hacking scandal came under renewed scrutiny on Friday with Prime Minister David Cameron saying Mr. Murdoch still had “questions to answer” and a lawmaker calling for the police to open a new inquiry.For up-to-the minute info. on the Murdoch scandal, check out the Guardian's live coverage. This scandal isn't going away any time soon.
The pressure on Mr. Murdoch built a day after two former executives of News International — the British susidiary of News Corporation — publicly contradicted evidence he gave to a parliamentary panel seeking to unravel the tangled story of phone hacking at the now defunct Murdoch tabloid, The News of the World.
“Clearly James Murdoch has got questions to answer in Parliament and I’m sure he will do that,” Mr. Cameron said during a visit to an auto plant in the British Midlands. “And clearly News International has got some big issues to deal with and a mess to clear up. That has to be done by the management of that company. In the end the management of the company must be an issue for the shareholders of that company, but the government wants to see this sorted out.”
The two executives said on Thursday that they told Mr. Murdoch in 2008 of evidence suggesting that phone hacking at one of the company’s tabloid newspapers was more widespread. The former executives said they informed Mr. Murdoch at the time that he was authorizing an unusually large secret settlement of a lawsuit brought by a hacking victim.
