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This List of investigations, resignations, suspensions, and dismissals in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal is a chronological listing of investigations, actual and considered, into illegal acquisition of confidential information or cover-up by employees or other agents of news media companies in conjunction with the phone hacking scandal. Investigations listed here concern interception of voicemail, hacking of computers, obtaining confidential information under false pretenses, and payments to officials. Dates in parentheses indicate approximately when each investigation was initiated or considered. Prior to 2010 investigations focused on just a few individuals, even though there was evidence of many people being engaged in illegal activity. "The lead investigator in Operation Motorman, a 2006 inquiry...said that his team were told not to interview journalists involved. The investigator...accused authorities of being too 'frightened' to tackle journalists." In August 2006, the Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard) seized from a private investigator (Glenn Mulcaire) “11,000 pages of handwritten notes listing nearly 4,000 celebrities, politicians, sports stars, police officials and crime victims whose phone may have been hacked by News of the World.” These documents remained largely unevaluated until the autumn of 2010, even though “senior Scotland Yard officials assured Parliament, judges, lawyers, potential hacking victims, the news media and the public that there was no evidence of widespread hacking by the tabloid.” Testimony indicated that “the police agency and News International … became so intertwined that they wound up sharing the goal of containing the investigation. Through March 2011, no News of the World executives or reporters other than Goodman were questioned. By September 2012, The Metropolitan Police had a total of 185 officers investigating illegal acquisition of confidential information at a cost estimated at £9 million for 2012 and £40 million forecast over four years. This included 96 officers investigating under Operation Weeting, 70 under Operation Elveden and 19 under Operation Tuleta.〔 ==By law enforcement organizations== # UK Metropolitan Police Operation Nigeria; (May 1999-September 1999) surveillance of Southern Investigations run by the anti-corruption squad CIB3. # UK Metropolitan Police Operation Glade; (2003) Followed up on evidence obtained in Operation Motorman # US FBI Investigation; (2004) computer hacking # UK Metropolitan Police Investigation; (2006) headed by Andy Hayman and limited to Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire〔 # UK Metropolitan Police Review; (2009) decision made by John Yates not to reopen/broaden the 2006 investigation〔 # US FBI Investigation; (2010) probe into a group of hackers who reportedly stole compromising pictures and video from the computers and mobile devices of up to 50 celebs. # UK Metropolitan Police Operation Weeting; (26 January 2011) interception of voicemail. Run by Sue Akers, a Deputy Assistant Commissioner with the Metropolitan Police. Akers's investigation team consists of 45 officers.〔 # UK Metropolitan Police Operation Tuleta; (10 June 2011) computer hacking and breaches of privacy not covered by the two parallel Met investigations into phone hacking (Weeting), and into corruption of public officials (Elveden). Tuleta handled acquisition of confidential information from stolen mobile phones. # UK Metropolitan Police Operation Elveden; (6 July 2011) investigation into bribery, corruption〔 supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Initial focus was on ''News of the World'' personnel but expanded in 2012 to cover potentially inappropriate payments by journalists at Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the ''Daily Mirror'', ''Sunday Mirror'' and the ''The People'', and Northern & Shell, publisher of the ''Daily Express'', ''Sunday Express'', ''Daily Star'' and ''Daily Star Sunday''. # UK Metropolitan Police Inquiry; (July 2011) Initiated by former commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson "to examine the ethical considerations that should underpin relations between the Metropolitan police and the media." Led by Elizabeth Filkin, the former Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, and "aims to draw up a framework for how officers operate in their contact with journalists." # UK Strathclyde Police Operation Rubicon; (22 July 2011) perjury, phone hacking, and breaches of data protection in Scotland Fifty Strathclyde Police officers assigned. Led by Detective Superintendent John McSporran. # US FBI Investigation; (14 July 2011) interception of voicemail # US Department of Justice; (July 2011) "considering need" regarding bribery of foreign officials # Australian Federal Police; (July 2011) "evaluating referrals" # US FBI Investigation; (August 2011) computer hacking # Durham Police; (Summer 2011) "outside police force to conduct a review of Operation Weeting...Jon Stoddart, chief constable of Durham constabulary, has agreed to undertake the review. The review team will be taken from a number of forces outside the MPS" (Metropolitan Police Service). # Metropolitan Police Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) (16 September 2011) DPS, responsible for investigating complaints against the professional conduct of Met officers, initiated an investigation of possible leaks by Met officers to ''The Guardian'' that led to the public disclosure that Milly Dowler's voicemail had been illegally intercepted. In its application for production orders, DPS cited the Official Secrets Act, an unusual use of this Act that has severe penalties, as well as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) in its order to require reporter Nick Davies and others to disclose sources.〔 It was the Milly Dowler disclosure that inflamed public opinion against phone hacking and led to the resignations of top Met officials, commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and assistant commissioner John Yates. Four days later, in the face of strong negative reaction from politicians, lawyers, and the press, the Met decided not to pursue the application for production orders. # UK Metropolitan Police (by February 2012) Operation Kalmyk; illegal access to computers; acknowledged by Sue Akers, a Deputy Assistant Commissioner with the Metropolitan Police. May include investigation of Philip Campbell Smith who may have hacked a former British army intelligence officer's computer in 2006 on behalf of ''News of the World''. # Independent Police Complaints Commission (28 June 2011); inquiry as to whether two senior Surrey police officers became aware as early as 2002 that Milly Dowler's mobile phone had been hacked and did not act on this information. Deputy Chief Constable Craig Denholm was second most senior officer at Surrey police and in overall charge of the Dowler disappearance/murder investigation named "Operation Ruby". He later worked for Metropolitan police assistant commissioner John Yates up until shortly before Yates made his cursory 2009 review and determined there was no basis for further investigation into phone hacking. Detective Superintendent Maria Woodall was the detective chief inspector in operational charge of the Dowler investigation from 2006 onwards. # UK Metropolitan Police (by April 2012) Operation Sacha, which relates to the arrest of Rebekah Brooks, her husband Charlie and others for alleged conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. # UK Metropolitan Police (by April 2012) Operation Kilo, which relates to leaks from phone-hacking investigation Operation Weeting.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of investigations, resignations, suspensions, and dismissals in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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