Tony Blair: Scumbag Advisor to Scumbag Publisher

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That's one embarrassing former Prime Minister you've got on your hands there, Brits.

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Tony Blair advised Rebekah Brooks to launch a "Hutton style" inquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World... ... According to the email, sent the day after the News of the World's final issue and six days before Brooks was arrested, Blair also told her he was "available" to her and Rupert and James Murdoch as an "unofficial adviser" on a "between us" basis. ... He said the inquiry would be "Hutton style" – a reference to Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death of David Kelly – and would "clear" her, but warned that "shortcomings" would have to be accepted as a result of the report. ...

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