[July 14, 2011] Menendez Calls for DOJ Investigation into Reports that Murdoch Tabloid May Have Hacked 9/11 Victims' Phones Tweet Jul 14, 2011 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) sent a letter today to Attorney General Holder today encouraging him to thoroughly investigate accusations made by a British lawmaker that News International, a British subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, had hacked into the phones of 9/11 victims. "The U.S. government must ensure that victims in the United States have not been subjected to illegal and unconscionable actions by these newspapers seeking to exploit information about their personal tragedies for profit," Senator Menendez wrote. Mr. Murdoch's newspapers have already been accused of numerous illegal activities including intercepting and deleting the phone messages of a young girl, Milly Dowler, who disappeared and was later found murdered. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has accused one newspaper of hiring criminals to gather personal information about his personal finances and his family. Scotland Yard is currently engaged in an investigation which reportedly includes a list of 3,870 names, 5,000 land-line phone numbers and 4,000 cellphone numbers that may have been hacked. Read this original document at: http://menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=80049f34-2b93-4c67-8a50-43559a16755b [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]