10 things we learned from the Met police at the phone-hacking hearing

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1. David Cameron's chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, turned down the opportunity for the prime minister to be briefed on the fact that Neil Wallis was giving PR advice to the Metropolitan police,...

2. The buck does not always stop at the top in the Met.

3. No one properly checked Wallis before he began work for Scotland Yard.

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7. Corporate PR consultancy can be a lucrative business. The Met received three tenders for a two-day-a-month contract to advise senior officers on press matters.

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10. We are living in strange times: there have been very few previous select committee hearings at which a Conservative MP (Mark Reckless) and a commissioner of the Metropolitan police go out of their way to praise the Guardian

link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/19/phone-hacking-select-committee-met