Top UK police officers probed over phone hackingReported by SeattlePI.com on Thursday, 28 June 2012 (on June 28, 2012)
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Top UK police officers probed over phone hacking
Associated Press
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Updated 09:34 a.m., Thursday, June 28, 2012
LONDON (AP) — Britain's police watchdog said Thursday that it was investigating two senior police officers whose force failed to act on information that could have blown open the phone hacking scandal well before it erupted last year. The scandal forced the closure of the News of the World, cost proprietor Rupert Murdoch his multibillion pound (dollar) bid for full control of satellite broadcaster BSkyB, and led to a series of overlapping police, parliamentary and regulatory inquiries on both sides of the Atlantic. Surrey Police has yet to offer an explanation of why it didn't act on the information — although the revelation that the force had accepted money from Murdoch's News Corp. has raised questions about the nature of the force's relationship with the New York-based media company.
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