LEVESON LATEST: NOTW LIED TO CLARENCE MITCHELL OVER 'DIARY' (merged)

More bad news for the forkers - yet again, they were wrong.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/09/leveson-inquiry-dacre-mills-clifford-live

11.16am: Jay asks about the News of the World's publication of Kate McCann's diary without her permission.

Edmondson says he was instructed by Myler to record a call with the McCanns' press adviser at the time, Clarence Mitchell, regarding the diary. He adds that recording such calls was standard practice.

He says that, on the instruction of Myler, he did not make it clear in the call that the paper had a copy of the diary.

He says he was uncomfortable about this, as he was friends with Mitchell.

11.18am: Edmondson says he was told to "not make it clear what we had, tell him in general terms, something woolly".

He adds:

… to give him the impression we were running a story, but not tell him what story, certainy not tell him we were in possesion of the complete diaries. There had been publication of extracts of the diaries in Portugal but not to the extent we had; he was frightened he [Mitchell] would take action.

11.20am: Edmondson agrees with Jay that the thinking behind this was to prevent the story being injuncted.

He told Myler, who had Gerry McCann's telephone number, that they could have worked "collaboratively" with the McCanns but Myler said this wouldn't work.

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My my! So, NOTW didn't tell Clarrie the truth, because if they had, they would have been slapped with an injunction?

I think that now leaves the way clear to find out just how the NOTW obtained the diaries from Portugal? A few names to be revealed, mayhap?

11.34am: Leveson asks Edmondson some more questions about the Kate McCann diary. Did he or did not make it clear to Clarence Mitchell that he had the entire diary? "No," says Edmondson.

That's the one we've been waiting for.

The Nasties will just pretend this hasn't happened. And anyway, they are too busy pretending The Lovely Sofia isn't going to testify for Marcos Correia.

La La, what a disaster it is all turning out to be.

Disaster on every single front today, Sabot.

I hope NOTW now do the right thing and reveal who in Portugal passed on Kate's illicitly-obtained diary.

Can anything more go wrong, Bonny? There isn't much left now short of The Libel Trial, and we all know what is going to happen there. The first Judge made it obvious what she thought of Gonc's Book. The Ban was only lifted due to a legal technicality.
The Book has never gone back on sale because because The Publishers now know that it is definitely Libellous. They were sucked in by Amaral's lies, along with a few others, but it ain't going to happen again.

NOTW Boss Blamed Over Kate McCann's Diary
The News Of The World's editor wanted the McCanns to be misled about plans to publish a private diary, an ex-executive says


http://news.sky.com/home/video/uk-news/video/16166650

I've merged it with the Guardian reports, Maggs - thanks for the video, I somehow think we are going to hear a lot more about this.

There certainly were some Conspiracies going on, but not where The Nasties would like to think they were.
The PJ. The Media. And Portuguse Posters. That's where they should have been looking.
We knew but they didn't want to listen to us. Now, they will just have to deal with the fall out.

It will be very interesting to see if Myler issues a challenge to or denial of the statements made in Leveson Inquiry today. If he doesn't...

He wanted to be able to blame Clarence Mitchell. Bloody Hell. Thank God for The Leveson Enquiry.

I like this bit, quote:

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16166632

Speaking after Mr Edmondson's evidence, Mr Mitchell said: "I feel entirely vindicated.
"I have always said the NOTW actively sought to deceive me over the publication of Kate's diary.
"But to hear that it was apparently done at the editor's direct behest was particularly shocking, if not surprising. Clearly Mr Myler now has some serious questions to answer.
"The distress this episode caused Kate, Gerry and myself was immense. I am glad we are getting to the truth at last."

That's IT. We spend our time in a perpetual state of Shock but not Surprise.

Personally, I am bombshelled-out already, and we still have Friday to go, Sabot.

It is rather looking as if the whole vendetta against the McCann family is now in its death throes.

Leveson Inquiry: News of the World editor 'ordered deception of McCanns'

Colin Myler, the editor of the News of the World, ordered his news editor, Ian Edmonson, to mislead a spokesman for Madeleine McCann's parents about an intrusive story the tabloid planned to publish, it was claimed at the Leveson inquiry.

By Martin Beckford, Home Affairs Editor3:43PM GMT 09 Feb 2012

Mr Myler was said to have told Mr Edmonson to have a "woolly" conversation with Clarence Mitchell and not reveal the fact that the newspaper was going to print Kate McCann's private diary.
He came up with the ploy to stop the family of the missing girl obtaining an injunction against the story being published, the Leveson Inquiry into press standards heard on Thursday.
The evidence from Mr Edmonson, the former head of news at the News of the World who is taking his old paper to an employment tribunal, contradicts what Mr Myler has previously said.
The former editor has told the Leveson hearing that his paper would never have published the diary of the missing girl's mother if she had not been aware of the plan, and that he thought Mr Edmonson had cleared it with the McCanns' spokesman, Mr Mitchell.
Giving evidence at the Royal Courts of Justice hearing, Mr Edmonson said he had a meeting with Tom Crone, the paper's senior lawyer, who gave a view of the story that "dismayed" his editor.

He said the editor told him to phone Mr Mitchell but not to make it clear exactly what the paper had and intended to publish that Sunday - "make it very woolly".
This was in case the McCanns "took action" to stop the story coming out, and also as cover in case they complained afterwards.
"It would be in order to blame Clarence, that he hadn't acted properly on instruction."
Mr Edmonson said he felt uneasy about doing this and suggested that the editor ring Gerry McCann himself, but was overruled.
Asked by Lord Justice Leveson if he had told his editor that he had informed the McCanns' spokesman about the planned diary story, Mr Edmonson replied: "No."

More at:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/leveson-inquiry/9072215/Leveson-Inquiry-News-of-the-World-editor-ordered-deception-of-McCanns.html

Just a reminder:

http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.com/2012/02/there-is-liars-god-damned-liars-and.html


There Are Liars, God Damned Liars, And Then There Is The Defunct British Newspaper, The News Of The World.

bb1 wrote:Personally, I am bombshelled-out already, and we still have Friday to go, Sabot.

It is rather looking as if the whole vendetta against the McCann family is now in its death throes.

Dear God, I hope it is.
Just cannot imagine the added misery that this internet campaign has added to the grief they are already suffering.x

I would think that most of it is just static for the McCann family, and ignored - it's the ones like Bennett, who take it into the real world, who are the enemies of Madeleine McCann.

Mind you, they are all disgusting, with their longing for Madeleine to be dead, and their revolting 'theories' - and Gonc is the source of all that.

As for that carpet-bagger Brown

New piece:

http://exposingthemyths.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-actually-wants-to-be-misinformed.html

Quote, on the subject of the bile the forkers come out with:

"Let's hope 2012 is going to be the annus horribilis for the McCanns!" posted one earlier this week. It doesn't seem to enter her head that the McCanns' annus horribilis was 2007.

Huntter8 Huntter8
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@nowaymojo @GasparStatement #mccann They've arrested 5 more this morning. Not be long before it's your turn. hate all u like, u won't win

Delusional lunatic. What on earth has the MoD got to do with anything?

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16167723

Defence Staff Held In Illegal Payments Probe

Has it not sunk in yet, it is now almost a badge of honor to have been arrested in the course of this endless inquiry?

Nothing's going to happen, no-one is going to go to jail.

But what WILL happen is that thanks to idiots like them, the press will be clamped down on like never before, and there simply will not be any whistleblowers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100438/The-Sun-associate-editor-Trevor-Kavangh-says-newspaper-swamp-needs-draining.html

Names of confidential newspaper sources handed to police by News International's internal investigation team

News International has given police the names of its reporters confidential sources to police, breaking a taboo of journalism, it was revealed today.
News Corporation's Management and Standards Committee (MSC) handed over the identities of sources on the grounds that they do not deserve protection because there is evidence that The Sun or the News of the World may have paid them for information.
This is despite the newspaper industry's code of conduct which states: 'Journalists have a moral obligation to protect confidential sources of information.'

The whole piece is worth reading; I see Ms Jenny Jones has surfaced again, to protest about what is being seen by many as a witchhunt.

http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.com/2012/02/perhaps-now-we-will-find-out-who-lied.html

Here's hoping.

Perhaps now we will find out who sold Kate McCann's diary to the NOTW.
ETA Oops