Payback time from the Met

[David Johnson]

Apparently the Met are using the Official Secrets Act to try and force the Guardian to provide their sources for the Millie Dowler phone hacking story.

Given that the news of this event galvanised those involved in the phone hacking story and all the arrests made by the Met have been "by appointment" I don't see why the Official Secrets Act is appropriate.

The Official Secrets Act was meant for spying type crimes where national security is put at risk.

So having buried the NOTW phone hacking story a few years ago, the Met in the shape of former Police Commissioner, Paul Stevenson lent on the Guardian to try and stop them banging on about phone hacking.

Despite this, the Guardian kept at it and eventually, the truth started to come out. As a result senior Met officers like Paul Stevenson and his Deputy Commissioner, John Yates resigned.

Seems like the Met are trying to get their own back.

Cheers
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[RoddersUK]

Fuckem. The bastards deserve to be fucked.

[andy at handiwork]

I take you are not a fan of serious and important investigative journalism then.

[Arginald Valleywater]

Which you won't get in the Guadiran. Still harks back to old school labour when they were for the werking claarses, not the Islington Eton crew.

[David Johnson]

The paper supported the Lib Dems at the last election.

[andy at handiwork]

The Guardian's work on the Murdoch / Met / politicians relationship is one of the best pieces of investigative journalism in the past 20 years. If nothing else it exposed just how inept, corrupt and unfit for purpose the Met had become. If you cant see the danger of what the Met are now doing with regards the attack on the Guardian then you dont deserve a free press.

[Arginald Valleywater]

Nah the Guardian is still second rate bogroll read by lefty luvvies and batty boys from the BBC. The Met is dodgy. Being honest any business with 50000 staff will have a few wrongdoers. Nothing much to see here, move along.

[andy at handiwork]

Sadly this was the attitude Plod took for years over the phone hacking. It took the quality journalism of one of the few papers that are worth reading these days to expose the cosy and probably corrupt relationship between the Met and NI. We are all the losers if papers like the Guardian and Indy and others look the other way when public malfeasance is apparent.

[RoddersUK]

I am all for investigative journalism. I just aint a fan of the metrosexual PC fucking Met.
As for the Guardian, all it is fit for is wiping ones arse with.
I presume you mean Guardian and working classes.

[David Johnson]

Having realised they have made a cockup, the Met appear to have seen sense on this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14991304

CHeers
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