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The boss of Everything Everywhere, the parent group of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T-Mobile, is standing down for "personal reasons". Tom Alexander, who will leave the chief executive role on 31 August, said he wished "to pursue other interests".
Originally posted by Knobby
The story has now taken a nore sinister turn...
News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead
Originally posted by PaganArchangel
For goodness sake's now somebody has been "found" dead - looks like the one who blew the whistle
CNN.com
They don't think there was anything suspicious
Oh honey, please...
Are they flippin' high?!
I mean..WTF
Originally posted by Knobby
This is probably totally unrelated, but I thought I should post it.
Orange and T-Mobile chief executive quits
The boss of Everything Everywhere, the parent group of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T-Mobile, is standing down for "personal reasons". Tom Alexander, who will leave the chief executive role on 31 August, said he wished "to pursue other interests".
Operation Elveden is a British police investigation. It was opened as a result of documents provided by News International to the Operation Weeting investigation.
According to the Metropolitan Police website, Operation Elveden is an investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police. It is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
The investigation is led by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers of the Metropolitan Police Service, who is also leading Operation Weeting. Those arrested in Operation Elveden are being held on corruption allegations contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906. The Elveden suspects are given numbers to identify them. Currently three people have been arrested in Elveden. The service's Directorate of Professional Standards is also involved in the investigation.
The police investigation into bribes to police officers by News of the World is called Operation Elveden. It has not identified, suspended or arrested a single bent cop.
What’s in a name? To Norfolk people Eleveden is a notorious bottleneck on the A11, the main road into and out of the county. You can, literally, queue for miles and for hours to get through Elveden in either direction. It is a place notorious to Norfolk for frustration, obstruction and never getting anywhere. I myself have spent a huge amount of time being stuck by Elveden; it is extremely difficult to avoid or get round. Elveden means no progress.
Andy Hayman was Chief Constable of Norfolk before moving down to the Met.
Did the Met name Operation Elveden as a grim in-joke to indicate they would make sure the accusations never went anywhere?
UPDATE
I have just realised I am definitely right. Operation Weeting is the investigation into the News of the World phone hacking itself. Weeting is the village at the southern end of the notorious Elveden traffic jam.
You don't shutter a 167-year-old newspaper, the largest English-language weekly in the world, just because some reporters were overzealous in their quest for news. The newspaper hacked the phones, computers, bank accounts, phone and medical records of leading members of the Illuminati establishment, Governors of the Bank of England, the royal family, and politicians and their wives such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw, Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell.
Now another whistle blower, Sean Hoare, has been murdered. Hoare, a former News of the World columnist and friend of Editor Andy Coulson, exposed the hacking scandal. He said there was "more to come...this is not going to go away." He also feared the "government" would try to murder him. Are we supposed to believe the police who say his death is "not being treated as suspicious?"
Pressure on David Cameron to explain why Andy Coulson was spared tough security and background checks increased as it emerged both his successor as director of communications and his former deputy are being vetted to a higher level than he ever was.