Mr McMullan told Sky News:
“It seems there is one rule for Andy Coulson, who has got David Cameron standing next to him, and another rule for the journalists who are being thrown to the wolves.”
Mr McMullan told Sky News: “I think there is now such a weight of numbers of people who have experienced what happened first-hand that it is going to be very hard to ignore, which is why I am perplexed that Andy Coulson keeps making absolute denials about absolutely everything.
“Surely the best course would be to say ‘Some of my investigative journalists hacked into people’s phones because that is the best way to get a story, a decent investigation in the public interest about matters of corruption’.
“Why is he turning his back on us when he should be standing up for journalism and journalists?”
Mr McMullan added: “I initially stood up for the principle of hacking into people’s phones if it is in the public interest and I expected someone like my former boss, Andy Coulson, to back me up on that.
“I have now got a letter from the Metropolitan Police asking me to come in under caution and yet they have invited him in as a witness.”
He said: “Since this first broke, lots of my former colleagues have rung me up and we have spoken about it and I think I have counted 13 people who have either said ‘Yes, I transcribed celebrities’ messages and gave them to Andy’ or ‘I specifically hacked into a politician who we may have thought was being corrupt on his direct say-so’.”
Mr McMullan confirmed he had now submitted written evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, saying: “The parliamentary committee investigating this has asked for my submission, which I emailed them yesterday.
“Do I have to lie to them or is it not time to say the truth, which is that, yes, I hacked into people’s phones, which is just one small tool
in an armoury of tools that an investigative journalist will use?”
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I am sure this matters to people in your constituency who are losing their jobs. You professional politicians just don’t understand that this pathetic party posturing is as far from constituents’ lives as can be, as it is for you to shop at Lidl.
Grow up.
It should matter to people in every constituency. Speak for yourself anyway Red_boy. I want to know all about Andy Coulson, Rupert Murdoch, Andy Hayman etc and what kind of “strange effect” it is having on my government!
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