Andy Coulson Confirms He Had Access To Top Secret
Government Documents While Receiving Money From Rupert Murdoch's News
Corp
May 10. 2012
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 hearing in London, England, 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
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 May 2012 16.50 BST -
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has admitted that he
may have had unsupervised access to top secret material while he worked
for David Cameron in Downing Street, despite not having undergone the
necessary security checks.
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."...
http://www.guardian.co.uk
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