obviously it was our investigation that led to the opening of that inquiry, the information that we gave to the police they then opened it and we subsequently set up a management standards committee in order to tp facilitate the police with any information they requested or anything that we could proactive lee find to help them. as part of that disclosure, and as part of the references made to the internal investigation into harbottle & lewis the police as part of the reference the police asked and the management standards committee about the harbottle & lewis, we went off to look for it, we then found it, and as i think james murdoch said in session, we told counsel about it and handed it over to the police on june the 20th. this troll didn t involve
not be open there. there would not be a new criminal inquiry if it hadn t been for the information news international handled over. i m not saying we haven t made mistakes. but we but the metropolitan police have repeatedly said as you heard last week, the committee heard last week, they said there was no need for further criminal investigation. so i think that everyone involved in 2007 would say now that the mistakes were made. but i hope that you feel we have responded appropriately and responsibly season we say the information in 2010. there are some thing here that don t stack up. we might not have any evidence. this is the sort of thing that s not quite right. did that prompt any activity on
major garrett about what all this haoepbs and where we go from here in the effort to raise the debt ceiling by that august 2nd deadline. the on going hearings that we are watching for the news of the world newspaper in britain with rebekah brooks testifying continues. and we want to take you back there for the time being. then we ll get back into the debt discussion with senator tom coburn here a little while from now. for now let s go back here. i can t comment on what who know it, when they know it and how they knew it. i can only tell the committee what i knew while i was editor of american s newsroom and editor of the sun and my actions trying to get to the bottom of this story. in 2006, from my own personal point of view i was the editor of the sun, and i had been approached by the police to explain the nature of access on
a very well respected legal firm and i m sure that that won t be the case, and john chapman has been a very respected lawyer with international for many years and i m sure would absolutely not have done that. however, in light of what we know now, when i and the management standards committee at international saw that file, we felt that it was, from our perspective, put a new light on information that we had had in the past, and we handed it over to the police. i didn t ask that question, but it would have been a very good question to ask, so thank you. why did john chapman leave the employ of news international. as you heard in the previous session that john chapman wanted 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
his knowledge of it, and why it hadn t come to light before. and the management and standards committee what was his response to you? his response to us at the time was that he was off to do an investigation into the illegal interception of voice mails, that he felt that he he felt that the harbottle & lewis recommendation, which was the letter that you have got. very misleading letter. he felt, as our legal adviser that the letter from harbottle & lewis was got you off the hook. no, was an accurate review of the harbottle & lewis file. that is something that clearly you ve heard today by james murdoch that he thought it was on examination. did he just