chapman, who is a corporate lawyer, and daniel cloak who was a head of hr, i think that they would they if called to this committee, that in their experience and their knowledge and when they looked through the file and felt that the harbottle & lewis letter was correct. okay. i ve got just a couple of final questions. the silence eye cross fleet street apart from a few newspapers. the garden, the independent and the ft and the new york times in the coverage of this affair, can you remember calling any editors after the guardian story in july 2005 to discuss how they might cover or not cover the story in order to downplay the
time, but i ve got a few more questions. as you ve described it, the email investigation was carried out by the it department and over seen by the director of legal affairs john chapman and the human resources director daniel cloak, is that your understanding? what was the question? the investigation itself. you described it, and others described it to us, it was carried out by the it department and over seen by the director of legal affairs, john chapman, and the human resources personnel director daniel cloak h is that an accurate description? that is my understanding. can you tell us why john chapman has left the organization? john chapman and the organization decided it was, you know, in mutual interest to part ways, and i think you know, i think one of the pieces here as
there was certainly when we examined it reexamined that, we found things which we immediately went to counsel with to get advice on how to present it to the police. in their written response to this committee s questions, are you aware that news international stated that both john chapman and daniel cloak reviewed these e-mails before forwarding them to the firm? no. so nobody in the company told you that two of your executives had reviewed the e-mails i was under the understanding that everything had been sent to them. okay. you are aware that lord mcdonald q.c. has since reviewed the e-mails on behalf of news international, are you not? yes. you re aware that he stated he found evidence and he s appointed the whole board of news corporation.
well is for the company to move forward, and is for and i think this is important, you know, many of the individuals, even if there is no if there is no evidence of wrongdoing, or anything like that, and i think that you know, and no evidence of impropriety, many individuals have chosen that it s time to part ways. i was not involved with the discussions with mr. chapman, i wasn t in there. you have no evidence of any complicity of mr. chapman to cover up the existence of the file that i do not have that. can you tell us the employment statement of daniel cloak. he left the company some time ago. i don t know his employment. he is not in the business. he was director of human resources for a number of years, not that many actually, i m not sure, but left over a year ago, i think, but i can follow-up with you the status. okay. i m just going very quickly to the witnesses who came to us. and, again, in respect to the
to leave and we felt that under the circumstances that that was the right course of action. because john chapman has come out very strongly in this session and he acted alone did he not. i think at the time that john chapman, who is a corporate lawyer, and daniel cloak who was a head of hr, i think that they would they if called to this committee, that in their experience and their knowledge and when they looked through the file and felt that the harbottle & lewis letter was correct. okay. i ve got just a couple of final questions. the silence eye cross fleet street apart from a few newspapers. the garden, the independent and the ft and the new york times in the coverage of this affair,