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well it was a non-story really, the most interesting bits were the bits you can work out from them, rather than the messages themselves.

firstly there are only five sources for these emails,  the first one we can almost certainly rule out, and that's David cameron and Number 10. you would think them being the source is something that there is a vanishingly small chance of happening. The second possibility is Rebekah herself , but according to her evidence given at the Leveson Inquiry she only has six weeks of messages and the time for that doesnt match with the content of the messages. The third  option is that the police have been leaking to the Mail, but if that was the case, you would think that the re would be much more than just the two relatively innocuous text messages. The fourth source would be the leveson inquiry itself, and if someone from there was to do the leaking you'd think that similarly to the police, firstly they would leak more, and secondly it would be a risk that might damage the inquirys process.

This leaves one possibilty as being most likely, that News International is leaking its employees emails to The Mail as part of the ongoing campaign against media regulation, a sort of  "We know what is in the rest, and we're willing to leak them, You wouldn't want your premiership to get damaged" gangster style threat.

So I know which my choice would be, but your own personal measure of who holds the lead piping in the Library may vary.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Nov 4th, 2012 at 05:05:07 PM EST
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David Cameron acknowledges there may be more Rebekah Brooks texts | Politics | The Guardian

David Cameron has acknowledged in private that he may be sitting on a further cache of emails and texts to and from Rebekah Brooks after a highly selective search was carried out for the Leveson inquiry.

The prime minister faced fresh embarrassment over his links with the former News International chief executive as it emerged that only a handful of his communications were searched for the inquiry, set up after the phone hacking scandal.

Cameron's aides looked only for emails and texts related to two specific areas highlighted by the inquiry - News International and BSkyB.

The prime minister believes it is wrong of critics, such as the former Labour Europe minister Chris Bryant, to say that he is sitting on a secret cache of communications because any emails and texts uncovered in the search were handed to the inquiry. But he acknowledges that a wider search may yield more texts and emails between the two.



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Nov 4th, 2012 at 05:12:15 PM EST
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good reasoning

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Nov 4th, 2012 at 05:20:58 PM EST
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well an interesting point is that then news Internationals new management would be in breach of the data protection act, you'd think they would have put illegality behind them

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Nov 4th, 2012 at 05:24:16 PM EST
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