Ex-tabloid editor decries hacking chargesReported by SeattlePI.com on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 (on May 15, 2012)
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Ex-tabloid editor decries hacking charges
Associated Press
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Updated 10:16 a.m., Tuesday, May 15, 2012
LONDON (AP) — Ex-News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks says she is baffled by the decision to charge her in Britain's phone hacking scandal, calling the move a waste of public money. Brooks, her husband and four others were charged Tuesday over alleged attempts to conceal evidence of phone hacking, the first prosecutions since police reopened inquiries almost 18 months ago into tabloid wrongdoing. Brooks said that people will eventually see the charges as just "an expensive sideshow."
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