Gordon Brown has contacted the Police to complain that his mobile phone might have been illegally listened to while he was in Government. It is not clear as to whether he thinks his message box was listened to or his actual voice transmission.
If it were his voice transmission than it would not be mere journalists but would have to be the Special branch or their equivalent. as mobile phone calls these days are encrypted or scrambled and cannot simply be over heard.
If he thinks it was his message box then of course he must take some, if not all, of the blame. Any one with a message box needs to set a pin number so it is secure. If they do not then they are leaving the front door of their house wide open and should not be surprised if somebody walks straight in.
I can see why Gordon Brown might be very concerned after his childish outburst on Sky TV when he called his own supporter a bigot. Or may be he was simply concerned that his thinking in how he thought he saved the world would be revealed as an absolute farce for that is what it was. Or was it that he was concerned that his latest stealth tax was going to be made public.
It is even believed that Blair has complained about messages that he left on other peoples phones when he was Prime Minister during the years 2005 to 2007 when Gordon Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer. The phone hacking scandal has to date centred on the "News of the World" paper which has always claimed that this was the work of one rogue reporter.
The News of the World former Royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed in prison with a private detective in January 2007 having both been found guilty of intercepting phone messages. During the last 3 years the Crown Prosecution Service and the Police have maintained the position that there was not enough evidence to bring a case against anybody else.
If it were his voice transmission than it would not be mere journalists but would have to be the Special branch or their equivalent. as mobile phone calls these days are encrypted or scrambled and cannot simply be over heard.
If he thinks it was his message box then of course he must take some, if not all, of the blame. Any one with a message box needs to set a pin number so it is secure. If they do not then they are leaving the front door of their house wide open and should not be surprised if somebody walks straight in.
I can see why Gordon Brown might be very concerned after his childish outburst on Sky TV when he called his own supporter a bigot. Or may be he was simply concerned that his thinking in how he thought he saved the world would be revealed as an absolute farce for that is what it was. Or was it that he was concerned that his latest stealth tax was going to be made public.
It is even believed that Blair has complained about messages that he left on other peoples phones when he was Prime Minister during the years 2005 to 2007 when Gordon Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer. The phone hacking scandal has to date centred on the "News of the World" paper which has always claimed that this was the work of one rogue reporter.
The News of the World former Royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed in prison with a private detective in January 2007 having both been found guilty of intercepting phone messages. During the last 3 years the Crown Prosecution Service and the Police have maintained the position that there was not enough evidence to bring a case against anybody else.
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