Three solicitors representing phone hacking victims were themselves targets of the News of the World, according to Newsnight. They included Mark Lewis, the lawyer for the family of Milly Dowler and Gordon Taylor, the former head of the Professional Footballers' Association. The programme reported that the solicitors were not put under surveillance for the purpose of writing stories about them.
Murdoch may have flown out of the country on his private jet, but the scandal is ever metastasizing.
And the "hacking" may soon find news areas of privacy invasion by Murdoch, Inc.
Tom Watson, the Labour MP who helped expose phone hacking, has warned that the illegal interception of emails will be the next big scandal to emerge.
Get ready to sign more checks Rupert. In the UK Murdoch's pernicious power has -- for now at least -- been diminished substantially. Here, not so much. The vast majority of Americans want such potential privacy invasions looked into. What reason do we have to believe this Administration, so preternaturally afraid of attacks from the Right (as opposed to their base), will do so thoroughly? We will see.
[cross-posted at Firedoglake]