{"id":30417,"date":"2011-07-19T17:12:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T17:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=30417"},"modified":"2011-07-20T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T15:59:34","slug":"hoares-allegations-against-coulson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=30417","title":{"rendered":"Hoare&#8217;s allegations against Coulson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 July 19, 2011<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sean Hoare, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=30372\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">the phone hacking whistleblower who was found dead at his home on Monday<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, had accused Andy Coulson, British Prime Minister David Cameron&#8217;s former communications chief, of \u201cactively\u201d encouraging phone hacking at News of the World.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In September 2010, Hoare said in an interview with the New York Times that Coulson was fully aware of phone hacking practices and that Coulson would even listen to recordings of hacked messages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Coulson, former News of the World deputy editor, fired Hoare in 2005. Hoare said he was making the revelations because he had thought it was unfair to blame the whole scandal on former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman who was jailed in 2007, over phone hacking and corruption allegations, after he pleaded guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In an interview with BBC Radio 4&#8217;s PM programme, in September 2010, Hoare said that getting the story was \u201cthe most important thing\u201d as he spoke of \u201cthe culture of dark arts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hoare said that Coulson had lied to Parliament when he said he had no knowledge of phone hacking at News of the World. \u201cI&#8217;ve stood by Andy and been requested to tap phones, to hack into them and so on. He was well aware that the practice exists. To deny it is a lie. It&#8217;s simply a lie,\u201d said Hoare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hoare acknowledged that producing results which \u201cwas always done in the language of, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t you practise some of your dark arts on this&#8217;, which was a metaphor for saying, &#8216;Go and hack into a phone&#8217;\u201d was what mattered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hoare&#8217;s death on Monday remains \u201cunexplained\u201d as the police say it is \u201cnot thought to be suspicious.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">ISH\/HE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail\/189778.html\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hoare, the whistleblower found dead on Monday night, accused British Prime Minister David Cameron\u2019s former communications chief of being \u201cactively\u201d involved in phone hacking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30417"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30484,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30417\/revisions\/30484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}