Letter Suggests Cover-Up in Phone-Hacking Scandal

Wait, you mean there's a chance that top politicians, business executives, and newspapermen would LIE to us?

So, it turns out that not only were senior executives and journalists at News of the World aware of the system of phone-hacking that eventually brought down the tabloid, they also discussed it openly during editorial meetings. So says Clive Goodman, the lone reporter jailed so far for phone-hacking, in a letter written four years ago that The Guardian has just published. The letter suggests that Andy Coulson, a former editor at the paper who was later hired by Prime Minister David Cameron as a communications adviser, knew full well the extent of the hacking, which he – and Cameron – have both denied. Further, it implicates the raft of senior News International executives who claimed the hacking was undertaken by a few bad apples at NoW, and suggests there could have been an attempt to cover up the scandal to protect the higher-ups. Goodman, a royal reporter, penned the letter after serving his four-month jail sentence in 2007 in an appeal to the tabloid to get his job back. He didn't get it.