Reporter Threatens to Name Names in Phone Hacking Scandal

[babsbunny]

Reporter Threatens to Name Names in Phone Hacking Scandal

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/world/europe/reporter-threatens-to-disclose-who-ordered-phone-hacking-at-british-paper.html?_r=3

By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: September 30, 2011

LONDON — A reporter who is among the 16 people arrested and then freed on bail in the phone hacking case that has shaken Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in Britain warned his former bosses on Friday that he planned to break his silence on the scandal in a civil court case. He said that he would reveal those who were responsible for the phone hacking.

The reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, 49, who was the chief reporter for the now-defunct tabloid The News of the World, gave the warning in a statement issued through his lawyers in connection with his wrongful-dismissal lawsuit against News International, the British newspaper arm of Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation. Mr. Thurlbeck was one of the first people arrested by Scotland Yard in a renewed investigation of the phone hacking this year, but he has denied publicly having played any part in the illegal interception of cellphone voicemails.

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. Here goes another suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head three times.

I do hope he has protection. :scared:

[seabeyond]

2. thinkin. why did he give them a heads up. nt

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. They know how much he knows? If anything happens to me...look at Murdoch?

Just guessing. :)

[Scuba]

3. Rupert paid him off to name some fall guys who are far less guilty than Rupert. n/t

[SoCalDem]

4. Just DO IT..

I am eternally tired of people playing the "i-m-a-gonna-do-it" card. If you have info, release it and let the cookies crumble at will..