Thread by @artisbrutal2021

The Telegraph ? and #TheLockdownFiles ?

Let's see...

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1551497450069889024

"Lockdown Files CREDITS

Claire Newell , Robert Mendick, Isabel Oakeshott , Katherine Rushton . Hayley Dixon . Tony Diver , Gordon Rayner , Janet Eastham , Jack Leather , Sophie Barnes, Blathnaid Corless"

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2004 : "The Sunday Times is facing a police investigation following the arrest of a young would-be journalist working as an agency temp in Whitehall.

Claire Newell has been arrested and questioned in connection with the hunt for a Cabinet Office mole .."
theguardian.com/politics/2004/…

"Tony Blair ordered the inquiry after the paper ran a string of stories based on leaked documents detailing cabinet splits on issues ranging from the introduction of identity cards to US postwar strategy.

Special Branch investigations are expected to focus on

the financial relationship between Ms Newell, 23, and the paper, according to senior Whitehall sources. 🍿

Ms Newell was supplied to the Cabinet Office by Josephine Sammons, an employment agency in the City of London. The agency yesterday declined to discuss what, if any,

checks it carried out before placing Ms Newell in Whitehall or how long she had been on the company's books.

The agency website boasts: "Most of our government clients require temporary workers who have been security cleared due to the highly confidential and sensitive nature

of their work. Sammons are able, through our extensive network of contacts built over several decades, to procure security clearance."🤔

👆I've just had a quick look into that and all is becoming clearer with #hackgate

Where to start?

Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, let's start here and we'll get to the Sammons agency later

What's the link with Claire Newell?

Here👇 Okay, let's begin..

dangerousminds.net/comments/ruper…
"Back in 2011, when the UK was being inundated with revelations regarding the extent of News Corp’s nationwide espionage, it was interesting to muse on the hacking victims that weren’t coming forward – and the seamy secrets that weren’t spilled in the

tabloids.. And, a few months on from “Hackgate” – wouldn’t you know it – there was “Savilegate.” These consecutive scandals betray a quite provocative symmetry 🍿

In the former, a media corporation was raked across the coals because of its perceived callousness towards

a victim of pedophilia (the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone), leading to a limb of that corporation – the News of the World – being lopped off.."

[We'll get into this later👇]

"In the latter, another media corporation (the former’s nemesis, no less) was raked across the coals because of its perceived callousness towards the victims of pedophilia, leading to a limb of that corporation – Newsnight – almost being lopped off. Curious.."

"by instructing his media empire to turn up the volume regarding the 'real Jimmy Savile' Murdoch must have known he would be sending very awkward reverberations through the wider establishment that was tentatively standing up to him and holding him to moderate account at

the Leveson Enquiry. Yup, Labour, the Tories, the Royals, the cops – Savilegate must have had the lot of them squirming. You can release all the shtick you like about there being “no pedophile ring” involved..

"(I actually caught some BBC Savile coverage where this reassuring message scrolled ceaselessly across the foot of the screen) .. Meanwhile, Leveson was still promising to damage News Corp’s reputation and influence around the world…

Step forward Labour MP Tom Watson,

the person deserving of the most credit for the development of Hackgate. Savilegate certainly appeared to have influenced his research and thinking in the logical direction.. asking at PMQs about that “powerful pedophile network linked to.. Number Ten.”

"DAVID CAMERON’s expression said it all(“won’t someone rid me of this meddlesome priest”), &the ripple of silence that spread through Parliament betrayed the sense that this had an outside chance of going down as one of the most significant moments in British political history.

[Searches for my past tweets regarding all this are currently bringing up ZERO results.. Thanks blue bird]..

But I digress

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1621150816907440129

"Initially, it had all looked eerily promising, & the effect of Watson’s words on the public imagination was compounded when he revealed the death threats he had subsequently received. Coupled with Savilegate, all this was threatening to wake the British public up from its long,

deep sleep..

Certainly something is going on behind the scenes. The question is how much the British Establishment is able to put its collective interests (in other words, survival) above its intestine disputes."

#LockdownFiles 🍿

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