Not even a hint of irony

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kpete  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-22-11 01:23 PM
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Solicitor's Phones Hacked By News Of The World (Clients Incl Julian Assange/Wikileaks) 
 Source: Channel 4 News

Friday 22 July 2011


High-profile media lawyer Mark Stephens has revealed to Channel 4 News that police have confirmed he is among the 4,000 potential News of the World phone-hack victims.

His name appears in Glenn Mulcaire's notebooks, which police are currently trawling. Sixty officers working for Operation Weeting are contacting people whose mobile phone numbers were listed by the private investigator, who served a jail sentence for phone hacking in 2007.

Mr Stephens told Channel 4 News he contacted Scotland Yard to ask if his phone had been targeted. He said: "I asked them if I'd been hacked - they came back to me in 90 mins and said yes."
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Mr Stephens's former clients include James Hewitt, who had an affair with Princess Diana, and most recently the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.



Read more: http://www.channel4.com/news/solicitors-phones-hacked-b...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4931137

Much heavy sighing ensues.

Yet...

...not one of them thinks that Assange who obtains documents illegally by facilitating their crimes is a crime itself but hacking the hacker is supposedly the worse thing in the world.

[formerlurker]

So many people allegedly involved and not one other media source does this? 

You have to laugh out loud at the claims (and feigned shock) that reporters were paying off police etc. for stories... that never happens anywhere else right?   

I think the only thing that will come out of this is just how widespread it is.