Saturday, January 14, 2012

News of The World and Climategate connections

Heidi the cross-eyed oppossum 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI48BkaNR7M&feature=related

Sir Paul Stephenson, Neil Wallis & The £10k Freebie - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNQ3wqDqXlM

Sir Paul Stephenson Telling The Committee About Champneys & Neil Wallis - NOTW Phone Hacking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD_AWwkvoCA


http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2011/07/17/sir-paul-stephenson-resigns
Excerpt:

Sir Paul Stephenson resigns

Sunday, 17 July 2011 9:35 PM

By Ian Dunt
Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned as Metropolitan police commissioner in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
The resignation follows another dramatic day of developments across London, as Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the News of the World, was arrested and questioned by police over allegations of phone-hacking and payments to police.
While news of the arrest spread, Sir Paul endured a day of controversy over his relationship with Neil Wallis, a former executive editor at the News Of The World.
Mr Wallis had previously been linked to the Met via a communications consultancy role he took on after he left the newspaper. It was revealed this morning that he was working in a PR role for a health resort where the Met commissioner had stayed for free after an operation, saving up to £12,000.
"The contracting of Mr Wallis only became of relevance when his name became linked with the new investigation into phone hacking," Sir Paul said in a statement this evening.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/11/27/latest-climategate-emails-bbc-cahoots-climategate-scientists
Excerpt:

Latest Climategate Emails: BBC 'In Cahoots With Climategate Scientists'

By Tom Blumer | November 27, 2011 | 09:02
Imagine if it were discovered that free-market think tanks were caught vetting scripts of Fox News programs, intervening to prevent free-market sceptics from receiving air time, and consulted with the network about how it should alter its programing in a free-market direction. The howls of outrage would be loud, long and unrelenting from other news networks, the wire services, and leading U.S. newspapers.
What I have just described, and more, characterizes a decade-long relationship between the British Broadcasting Corporation and UK-based climate scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) -- except that the BBC is government-funded and disproportionately controls the flow of broadcast news in the UK. What the UK Daily Mail has revealed today as part of its ongoing review of the second set of Climategate emails released before Thanksgiving has caused Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation to write that the BBC is "in cahoots with Climategate scientists." What follows are excerpts from the David Rose's Daily Mail story (bolds are mine):

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/19/272361/news-corp-hacked-climategate-emails-time-for-an-independent-investigation/
Excerpt:

News Corp and the Hacked Climategate Emails: Time for an Independent Investigation

By Joe Romm on Jul 19, 2011 at 12:55 pm
There have been countless independent investigations into the scientists whose e-mails were hacked in November 2009.  And the scientists have been (quietly) vindicated every time (see “The first rule of vindicating climate science is you do not talk about vindicating climate science“).
But we still don’t know who hacked the emails! And now we know that one of the key investigative bodies tasked with tracking down the hackers — Scotland Yard –  were compromised at the time.
How were they compromised?  Neil Wallis — the former News of the World executive editor — became a “£1,000 a day” consultant to Scotland Yard in October 2009.  Last week he became the ninth person arrested in the metastasizing News Corp scandal “on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to section 1(1) Criminal Law Act 1977.”

http://drtimball.com/2011/climategate-cover-up-continues-with-cru-hacking-saga/
Excerpt:
East Anglia’s Toxic Reputation Manager
At the Guardian symposium last summer, George Monbiot’s opening question (to Trevor Davies of East Anglia) was:
why was CRU’s response to this issue such a total car crash?
Davies’s response:
It’s very difficult for a good employer to get reputation management right.
A few days ago, we learned (h/t reader Chu) that the University of East Anglia had used Neil Wallis of the Outside Organisation for “reputation management”. Wallis turns out to have been a former News of the World editor, who was recently arrested in connection with the NOTW scandals.
The University of East Anglia was not the only UK institution that employed Wallis for reputation management. Concurrently he was employed as a consultant for the Metropolitan Police Services in London, where he had been hired on the recommendation of Deputy Commissioner John Yates, who was also responsible for counter terrorism operations in the UK. Wallis’ former close associate at the News of the World, Andy Coulson, was press secretary for Prime Minister David Cameron, to whom Wallis is now said to have provided “informal” advice.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8785470/Phone-hacking-News-International-paid-Neil-Wallis-while-he-was-at-Scotland-Yard.html
Excerpt:

Phone hacking: News International paid Neil Wallis while he was at Scotland Yard

The former News of the World executive employed by the Metropolitan Police was secretly paid more than £25,000 by News International during his time at Scotland Yard, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Former Deputy Editor of The News Of The World Neil Wallis leaves Hammersmith Police station after being questioned by police over the phone hacking scandal
Former Deputy Editor of The News Of The World Neil Wallis leaves Hammersmith Police station after being questioned by police over the phone hacking scandal Photo: WARREN ALLOTT
By , and Mark Hughes
6:17PM BST 23 Sep 2011
Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the tabloid newspaper, was paid the money during late 2009 and 2010 for providing “crime exclusives” including details of Scotland Yard investigations.
At the time, he was working as a police consultant working closely with Sir Paul Stephenson, the then commissioner. Mr Wallis was also paid £24,000 from taxpayer funds for his work at the force.
The details of his News International payments have emerged in billing records obtained by detectives investigating the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World.
It is understood that Mr Wallis was also selling crime stories to other newspapers during his time at Scotland Yard.
The legality of Mr Wallis, who was effectively working as a police employee, selling potentially confidential police information to tabloid newspapers is not clear.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/20/996814/-When-MurdochGate-Met-ClimateGate
Excerpt:
Wed Jul 20, 2011 at 07:07 PM PDT

When MurdochGate Met ClimateGate

I'm cross-posting this from our Current website because, well, because.
And because the Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal may have just metastasized.
The so-called "Climate-Gate" controversy - in which e-mails about Global Warming were stolen from researchers at Britain's University of East Anglia in November, 2009 - now turns out to bear the stamp of Neil Wallis, one of the key figures in Murdoch's hacking of the phones, voicemails, and other electronic communications of thousands of people.
Wallis is unique in this scandal. He had been the Executive Editor of Murdoch's "News Of The World" when hacking was at its peak. Yet in 2009 he wound up being hired by the police as a public relations consultant, while the police investigated the hacking scandal - and he wound up spying for Murdoch's people on what Scotland Yard was investigating.
Wallis was, as the New York Times put it:
"…reporting back to News International while he was working for the police on the hacking case."
More over, while Wallis was keeping Murdoch's organization apprized of what and whom the police were investigating, the police were trying to convince other news organizations not to cover the story - a suppression of evidence that benefited both the police and Rupert Murdoch.
As the British newspaper The Guardian reported last Friday:
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