Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., called News Corp. “kind of...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., called News Corp. “kind of slimy” following recent allegations that the company hacked cellphones. His comments came in an interview Tuesday. “We are looking for any Americans either over here or over there…
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who were hacked into,” he said of the U.S. and the U.K, which has been probing the allegations. If any are found in the U.S., this would “come under our responsibility and there is such a vast empire of effort that I can’t feel like there isn’t something there,” he said. “It’s pretty slimy, don’t you think?” Last week Rockefeller asked the head of a U.K. judicial investigation into the alleged hacking if it found new information suggesting the conduct “involved U.S. citizens or violated U.S. laws” (CD May 3 p16). On Tuesday Free Press urged the senator to hold hearings to investigate the “potential crimes committed by News Corp.” in the U.S. (http://xrl.us/bm6p47). “It is Congress’ responsibility to investigate corruption and cover-ups of this scale, especially with regard to a company that has been granted numerous licenses to use the public airwaves,” the letter said. A News Corp. spokesman declined to comment.