and i think one of the pieces here as well is for the company to move forward is for and i think this is important. many of the individuals, even if there is if there s no evidence of wrongdoing or anything like that, and i think that 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. so you have no evidence of any complicity to cover up the existence of the file? i do not have that. can you tell us the employment status of daniel cloak? mr. cloak left the company some time ago and i don t know his employment status. he s not in the business. he was the 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. i m just very quickly to the
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 file that you discovered this year, regarding les hinton, when did he first become aware of
emerges, or was there prior to that departure, you would have a different piece. but there s quite a that s an important point just to be clear about. my final question is it seems to me on the face of it that the news of the world was sacrificed in order to try to protect rebekah brooks position at news international. in effect, rather than her being having her departure being announced, the news of the world was offered up as an alternative to try to deal with the whole thing. do you regret now making that decision? do you regret closing the news of the world to try and save rebekah brooks? in hindsight, do you wish you accepted her resignation to start with in order that that paper with a fine tradition could probably continue and all of the people who are now out of work could still be in work? i regret very much the pain of people that will not be able to find work. the two decisions were totally unrelated, absolutely sxl totally unrelated. so when you cam
members of the britt parliament. they are supposed to hammer him and his allies on a empire destroying jobs and careers and now raising new questions about his company s conduct right here in the united states. bribery, hacking, corruption of power. lawmakers say the allegations are not about just sleazy journalism, about the power of an empire that has gone largely unchallenged, before now. it s 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. thanks for joining us. here are other stories we will take a look. another step in the nation s debt crisis but not any closer to a final deal. the house will vote on a republican measure but the president says he won t even consider it. the government deadline remains august 2nd before it runs out of money. the space shuttle atlantis on its way home. this morning, it did undock from the international space station and began the final voyage in the program s 30-year-old history. now back to the murdoch media scandal
detectives, as i said, who formed i think the major part of operation motor i would like to know what you did with him. sorry? i would like to know what you did with him. in the main, my use of private investigators while i was editor of news of the world was purely legitimate and in pursuit in the main, as you know, for the addresses and whereabouts of convicted pedophiles, than is my majority use, if not almost exclusively use of private investigators myself. i respect that the news of the world also used private investigators for other stories. are you aware that steve whitmore actually directed i wasn t aware until two weeks ago. you are now? yes, i am. why did you order a mobile conversion from steve whitmore? as i said, it was 11 years ago. i have answered this question many times but just to repeat, a mobile conversion which is finding an address from a mobile phone, that is what a mobile conversion is, and can be got through legitimate mean