Keeping an eye on things for their friends
by digby
A top investigator for the Senate Finance Committee, working under Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), may have had smoking gun evidence of News Corp’s hacking activity. While News Corp’s British subsidiaries have received the most media attention for systematically hacking the cell phone and personal records of private citizens, the public still has heard little of allegations relating to similar conduct perpetrated by News Corp against its American competitors. ThinkProgress has learned that not only did a sensitive tip come to Grassley’s office about News Corp’s cyber attacks against other American companies, but authorities may have failed to look into the matter partially because a staffer named Nick Podsiadly allegedly never followed through on his promise to the whistleblower.
Read on for the details.
I’m still quite skeptical that the government itself didn’t know and enable this. After all, we were in the midst of an unprecedented spree of government surveillance of American citizens in the aftermath of 9/11. Did they miss this?
What do you suppose will happen if News Corp’s competitors find out that more than just a lone Senate staffer was aware that Rupert Murdoch was spying on them. Like the NSA, for instance. You remember them, the guys who were spying on everybody during that period?
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