Andy Coulson
On July 19. 2011 the Judiciary Report published the claim
News
Corp Continued To Pay Andy Coulson After He Quit To Spy On British
Government.
The site was the only one to do so and has been vindicated this week
regarding those claims.
Today during the
Leveson phone hacking hearings in London, England, Andy Coulson admitted he had access to
top secret government materials, while receiving money from Murdoch.
This was wholly inappropriate and Murdoch's conduct constitutes a risk
to national security.
STORY SOURCE
Andy Coulson: I may have seen top-secret state
material
Coulson's admission at the Leveson inquiry on Thursday afternoon appears to contradict No 10's account of the former News International employee's access to the most sensitive government materials while he was working for the prime minister. It has consistently claimed that Coulson had appropriate security clearance for his work because he did not have unsupervised access to top secret papers...
Robert Jay QC, counsel to the Leveson inquiry, asked Coulson if he had had unsupervised access to material designated top secret or above, he replied: "I may have done, yes."...
