From The Guardian:
A 32-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of making corrupt payments to public officials, by detectives from the Metropolitan police's Operation Elveden.
It is understood that the person arrested is Virginia Wheeler, the defence editor of the Sun. Wheeler has been abroad on extended leave, but police had wanted to question her. It is understood she has returned to the country.
The woman was arrested by appointment on Thursday morning and is the 23rd person to be arrested by officers working on Operation Elveden. She was questioned at a south London police station and later released on bail until May.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Would the defence editor be akin to a Pentagon reporter here in the US? If so, who was she bribing?? This could be big.
h/t to Lib Dem FoP for this in the comments:
...yes, "Defence Correspondent" would equate to somebody covering the Pentagon.
In case you missed Brit on CNN with Richard Quest yesterday:
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UPDATE 1:
Keith Olbermann, on his show, Countdown on CurrentTV, has just reported that The Leveson Inquiry in Parliament -- a judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Justice Leveson who is advised by a panel of independent assessors -- has summoned Rupert Murdoch to testify publicly again, in April or May.
(h/t Lib Dem FoP for correction)
More on this from globalpost.com:
The Leveson inquiry into media ethics is preparing to call on Rupert Murdoch to give testimony in late April or early May, sources close to the investigation told Reuters.
The testimony news comes just a day after James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's son, stepped down as head of News International on Wednesday.
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Leveson and other investigators are currently in the first phase of their two-part inquiry into the role of the press and police in the phone-hacking scandal that exposed British newspapers, including Murdoch's The Sun, according to the inquiry's website.
http://www.globalpost.com/...
p.s. You can thank Keith for the scoop in a comment in the inimitable CityLightsLover's nightly Countdown diary: http://www.dailykos.com/...