Sean Hoare News Of The World Hacking Whistleblower Found Dead In London

Rupert Murderoch? : News Of The World Hacking Whistleblower Found Dead In London

July 18, 2011 by Jack Blood
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Sean Hoare, a former reporter for the News of the World who was the first to go on the record about Andy Coulson’s alleged knowledge of the phone hacking there, has been found dead, according to the Guardian. He was found by police at his London home.

Hoare was known to have problems with drugs and alcohol, and the police said that they were not treating the death as a suspicious one, though they did not reveal what caused Hoare to pass away. But it still comes as a grim coincidence during a period when the phone hacking scandal is escalating seemingly every day.

Hoare first outed himself as a phone-hacker in a September 10 New York Times article. He said that he used to play Coulson—who became the top communications aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, and was later arrested for his alleged role in the hacking operation—recordings of hacked voicemails when the latter was the editor of the News of the World. Coulson, he told the paper, “actively encouraged me to do it.” After the article was published, Hoare was questioned by police.

He spoke again to the paper last week, after the scandal had turned into a full-blown crisis.

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Comment by Daniel Seigler on July 21, 2011 at 2:40am: my understanding was that although the death was 'suspicious', the police were quick to point out that they did not suspect foul play.

Comment by LYNN SHEDLER on July 20, 2011 at 4:02am: To: Glenn Gordon/ you are correct! She knew more than even Jackie Kennedy knew, of course, and Marilyn had to be silenced. It's a sad story for Marilyn but with or without the news conferance, poor Marily was silenced for ever!!!

Comment by Glenn Gordon on July 20, 2011 at 2:45am: Hi Lynn

Glad you raised Marilyn Munroe's death. She was about to hold a news conference and blow the lid on her affairs with the Kennedy's because they dumped her. However, since then they have tried to implicate Bobby Kennedy in her murder, which of course is BS. Marilyn would have had intimate access to the Kennedy's plans, eg. the CIA, the mafia etc. This would have exposed the CIA's plan to kill the Kennedy's. She was a liability, so Sam Giancana had her killed.

Comment by LYNN SHEDLER on July 19, 2011 at 7:29pm: All I can say is - once a whistleblower - always a whistleblower & he was silenced for it.

Wheither it was drugs or booze doesn't mean a thing - look what happened to Marilyn Munroe back in the early 60's. She drank and took drugs. They wanted her SILENCED!!!

Comment by truth on July 19, 2011 at 1:11pm: 'Someone's coming to get me': Terrified phone-hacking whistleblower...

The man who launched the entire phone hacking scandal had become a paranoid recluse who believed someone was out to get him, a friend has revealed.

Sean Hoare, who was found dead at his flat in Watford, Hertfordshire, yesterday, had spent much of the last weeks of his life 'hiding' in his flat with the curtains drawn.

Comment by Glenn Gordon on July 19, 2011 at 10:31am: What people have got to understand is that this guy "David Cameron" , the current unelected Brit PM, is as evil as they come. He wants to be another Tony Blair, and it is clear that everything he does is stage managed and choreographed. This journalists death, along with the mystery death of his Cameron's aide at Glastonbury are his Dr David Kelly. Cameron was chosen by the Rothschild's because he has no morals or ethics. The problem is that the media won't touch him, despite his background.

Comment by Glenn Gordon on July 19, 2011 at 3:57am: The usual criteria :0) It must be in the Whistle blowers job description, since they always seem to have alcohol and drug problems, and of course be suicidal too. As I said in my previous post, I'm convinced Andy Coulson was MI5/MI6.

Comment by Glenn Gordon on July 19, 2011 at 3:51am: I'm convinced this whole hacking scandal is an MI5, MI6 or Tavistock cover operation. The CIA has always used the media and many covers for their clandestine ops, so why should the Brits be any different? The sadistically cruel David Cameron would have been closely advised on who to choose as an aide. Isn't it a coincidence that all this has emerged just as major crisis' are happening i.e. Libya, George Osborn at Bilderberg, Another Cameron aide found dead at Glastonbury. I think it's all to distract us from what's really going on behind our backs. Each new hacking scandal is a bit too convenient.

Comment by Ragnarok on July 19, 2011 at 3:47am: Funny that the western media always has so much bad to say about the hard conditions the press is under Russia, China and north Korea when all you have to do is go to our own western countries. Lets take a Clinton example :

Sandy Hume

Journalist
On Sunday, February 22nd, 1998, Sandy Hume, the 28-year-old son of journalist Britt Hume, was reportedly found dead in his Arlington, Virginia home. Aside from the statement that this was an "apparent" suicide, there remains in place a total media blackout on this story, possibly out of concern that the actual facts will not withstand public scrutiny. Indeed, it was reported in Associated Press that the Arlington Police were not responding to any inquiries.

Hume was a reporter for The Hill magazine, newspaper about Congress for Congress, and had broken a major story in 1997 regarding the friction between House Speaker Newt Gingrich and a faction led by Representative Paxon (who announced his resignation just 24 hours after Hume's death).

In addition, Sandy Hume had just joined the staff at Fox TV News and was just three weeks into a job that represented the pinnacle of his young career. Oddly enough, aside from echoing the one Associated Press story, the Fox News website has ignored the death of its newest commentator.

Sandy already had a reputation for getting the story that nobody else wanted to look at. It is worth noting that his death came hard on the heels of reports that "a reporter" was about to break a story confirming the White House's use of investigators to dig up dirt on critics.

It has recently been confirmed that the man who performed the as-yet-unreleased autopsy is none other than Dr. James C. Beyer, who has a record of concealing homicides behind a ruling of suicide.

Kenneth Starr's "suicidologist" Dr. Alan L. Berman has waded in again and as he did in the Foster death ruled it "100% certain that this is a suicide and can be nothing else".

And never forget that 100's of people (bodyguards, lawyers, journalists, agents, prostitutes ect. ect.) went missing during the Clinton era.