From the article in the NYT this morning, it looks like it was more than just protecting her job. Looks like it was an attempt to stop any further digging into how deep the phone hacking scandal had gone. Hacking the phones of the detectives investigating the hacking scandal. It's not going to get any better for Murdoch soon.

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