But His Emails: New Info. About Will Lewis & the Alleged Murdoch Coverup
And it involves a wild false accusation against former PM Gordon Brown
It feels like the news about Washington Post’s new CEO, Will Lewis, alleged dodgy past playing fast and loose with journalistic ethics disappeared as quickly as it hit the news cycle. Coverage reached a fever pitch when NPR’s David Folkenflik wrote an explosive piece that included how Lewis tried to dangle an exclusive interview in exchange for killing any further digging into his past.
As a journalist, you would think that Lewis would know that saying that was a sure sign that there was something even more interesting to find. Perhaps he was used to reporters settling for the low-hanging story that requires less work.
This story had virtually dried up until Monday, July 29th.
In a new piece, Byline Investigates writes that, according to High Court Documents, in 2011—at the height of the phone hacking scandal—MET police were already investigating and told Murdoch’s higher ups to, “preserve the evidence, including emails.”
Johnson goes on to write:
According to High Court documents, Lewis, Cheesbrough and Brooks hit on the idea of making a trumped-up ‘false security threat.’
Astonishingly, they came up with notion of blaming Britain’s former Prime Minister Gordon Brown who had begun to ask questions about Rupert Murdoch’s companies.
This all came to light during a preliminary hearing “over claims brought by former Labour deputy leader Lord Tom Watson and ex-Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable”, about NGN targeting them via voicemail interception and private investigators.
And we have the email.