Phone hacking: PCC 'was not fully informed during investigation'
Baroness Buscombe makes admission about 2009 probe into News of the World phone-hacking claims The chair of the Press Complaints Commission, Baroness Peta Buscombe, admitted today that the regulator appeared not to have been fully informed when it carried out its criticised 2009 investigation into claims of phone hacking at the News of the World. The PCC's report, which concluded in November 2009 that there was "no new evidence" of widespread phone hacking at the News International paper, was condemned at the time by MPs as a "whitewash" . Buscombe today admitted it "sounds now as if we weren't fully informed" about the extent of phone hacking at the paper, where further revelations about its activities led to the dismissal last month of assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson. The paper's former editor, Andy Coulson, resigned as David Cameron's director of communications last month , saying the continuing wave of allegations about illegal p
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