hacking

hacking
andy coulson is the prime minister’s chief spin doctor; he used to be the editor of the ‘news of the world’.
back in 2007 clive goodman, the news of the world’s royal correspondent, was jailed for illegally tapping some of the phones of the royal household. at the time andy coulson resigned because while he said he was not aware that the tapping was going on it had occurred on his watch so of he went.
the new york times has resurrected the story because they have a named source who claims coulson knew it was going on and it was much more widespread than originally thought.
coulson denies this.
number 10 are fully behind him (william hague might be jealous… sorry couldn’t resist).
some say that this is just the new york times having a go because of their great rivals the wall street journal’s link to news of the world through rupert murdoch, others are also pointing out that the drink and drug habits of the new source make him totally unreliable.
but surely it just comes down to:
if coulson didn’t know it was going on then he was a pretty shit editor of the paper, so surely number 10 have a pup on their hands.
or coulson knew it was happening but as far as number 10 are concerned that is fine as it is in the past and andy is doing a good job for them. (besides if number 10 want a phone tapped they just go to mi6).
either way the pressure must by on coulson, as the slick machine that was the con/dems is wobbling a bit and only the recent birth is providing some nice happy photo ops.