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The Hacked Off campaign argues that Lord Justice Leveson should reveal them because they could expose widespread illegality by journalists.
In the face of occasional mentions in lawsuits last year, the company fiercely disputed any suggestion that the newspaper was embroiled in widespread illegality.
It has also been suggested that federal and state officials have ignored or played down allegations of widespread illegality, a charge that is all too easy to believe.
John Whittingdale, the Tory chairman of the Commons culture select committee, named a series of News International executives who had told his committee that only one reporter was responsible for phone hacking while police possessed evidence of widespread illegality.
News International has also come under some pressure to waive legal privilege and allow the release of an internal dossier on hacking, compiled by the law firm BCL Burton Copeland in 2006, that might reveal whether senior executives knew of widespread illegality even as they said that hacking was limited to "one rogue reporter," Clive Goodman, who was jailed in 2007.
What part of rightfully exposing widespread illegality does the Education Secretary find 'vexatious' – or is it just vexing to a Secretary of State subjected to increasing pressure from the religious lobbyists whose long years of breaking the rules have now been challenged?
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Mr. Murdoch has long denied any wrongdoing, but is scheduled to face members of Parliament — including Mr. Watson — on Thursday to answer further questions on whether, and when, he knew of a widespread culture of illegality at the newspaper.
The court case followed GCC's adoption of these plans despite widespread opposition (16,000-signature petition and overwhelmingly negative consultation feedback) and repeated warnings of potential illegality by retired senior library service staff and opposition councillors.
Illegality should have consequences.
"Resist this tendency to illegality.
But the illegality still stands".
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