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Re: [Update] The News Corp scandal
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THE bungled £20million criminal probe into Sun journalists finally collapsed with a whimper today as the last strand of the investigation ended with yet another humiliating failure for Scotland Yard.
Operation Elveden - which saw 29 journalists charged and then cleared of wrongdoing over payment for stories - is being wound-up in disgrace after almost five costly years.
It comes after out-of-touch Met chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, who is under pressure to quit over a string of botched inquiries, told MPs he found it "odd" that juries had repeatedly refused to convict journalists at trial.
Free speech campaigner Mick Hume said: "Operation Elveden was the biggest witch-hunt against journalists in a supposedly free society in modern times.
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"In order to arrest those 34 journalists under Elveden, the Met and state prosecutors effectively tried to make up a new law of 'conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office', specifically framed to fit up reporters and editors for doing their jobs.
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No law broken so no conviction. What's so hard to understand Mr Plod?
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