Sooo, it appears everyone in the murdoch empire knew about the phone hacking. People were paid off, lawyers involved. Read a nice round-up over at the Telegraph:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8617707/Phone-hacking-scandal-live.html
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