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July 12, 2011

Murdoch Scandal Expands; Scotland Yard, Former British Prime Minister Targeted 
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The phone hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire
continues to expand. The New York Times reports that five senior British
police investigators discovered in 2006 that their mobile phones were
targeted soon after Scotland Yard opened an initial criminal inquiry of
phone hacking by reporters from Murdoch's News of the World. Meanwhile,
former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has admitted that reporters
from another Murdoch-owned newspaper illegally obtained the medical
records of his infant son who had cystic fibrosis. Brown condemned the
actions of Murdoch's papers.

Gordon Brown, former British prime minister: "I think what happened
pretty early on in government is that the Sunday Times appear to have
got access to my building society accounts, they got access to my legal
files, there's some question mark as to what happened to other files,
documentation, tax and everything else, but I'm shocked, I'm genuinely
shocked to find that this happened because of their links with
criminals."



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