As feeble excuses go ...

[durham_rambler]

There are not many laughs in the News of the World phone hacking saga, but this story in today's Guardian made me laugh out loud:

Under the headline News of the World surveillance of detective: what Rebekah Brooks knew comes the story of how the newspaper was spying on a senior Scotland Yard detective, David Cook, who was investigating two murder suspects with links to one of the paper's reporters:

Scotland Yard chose not to mount a formal inquiry. Instead a senior press officer contacted Brooks to ask for an explanation. She is understood to have told them they were investigating a report that Cook was having an affair with another officer, Jacqui Hames, the presenter of BBC Crimewatch. Yard sources say they rejected this explanation, because Cook had been married to Hames for some years.

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Investigation fail continued:

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Craig Murray asks: "Why have the police not been into all of News International’s offices, particularly its HQ, and removed all the hard drives, rather than waiting for News International voluntarily to sort through their own emails and hand over what they choose?"

He has a point.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

This makes me wish for a Monty Python-esque parody. But then I realize that one just can't. It's too funny already.

I keep trying to explain to my Yank friends that Monty Python was documentary, not fiction. I guess one has to actually live in England to understand this.