Unsourced report broke no new ground: cops
(NEWSER) - Scotland Yard, smarting from a report that it failed to inform victims of a British tabloid's rampant phone hacking, today opened and quickly closed an investigation into the potentially explosive matter, reports the New York Times. Cops reportedly had evidence of thousands of incidences of illegal activity by private investigators working for at least 31 journalists from News Corp.'s News of the World and Sun—but prosecutors brought no charges, and a Guardian exposé contained nothing new, investigators said. More»
