NewsCorp attempted to hack phones of 9-11 victims. Now America is a player in this scandal. Update!

Courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald:

A New York police officer has claimed besieged British tabloid the News of the World attempted to hack into the voicemails of victims of the 9/11 terror attacks, as Rupert Murdoch arrived in London for emergency talks aimed at diffusing the international crisis surrounding his media empire.

Rival red-top newspaper the Mirror reported the officer was contacted by News of the World journalists who said they would pay him to retrieve the private phone records of the dead.

Now working as a private ­investigator, the ex-officer claimed reporters wanted the victims' phone numbers and details of the calls they had made and received in the days leading up to the atrocity.

The voicemails would likely include harrowing messages from desperate loved ones trying to make contact with their relatives caught up in the 2001 terror strikes on the World Trade Center, in which thousands perished.

I believe that this might be the beginning of the end of Fox News as a viable news source in America.

I know that Fox has not been publicly connected to this scandal, but now that it has reached the shores of America I would be willing to bet that news of involvement by Fox News will not be far behind.

What's more if we DON'T hear of that involvement, I, and many others by the way, will ALWAYS believe there was a cover up.  The idea that this was so widespread in England, and that the company responsible did not do the same thing here in America, just seems naive to me.

I mean if they were willing to attempt to hack the bank and medical records of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, what in the world makes us believe that Murdoch's "journalists" would fear doing the very same thing in THIS country?

What do you all think?

Update: It looks like CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) are on the same page:

“Given the ever-increasing number of Murdoch publications involved, combined with the allegation that News Corp. journalists sought access to the voicemails of 9/11 victims and their families, America cannot leave this investigation entirely to the British. Congress should immediately initiate its own inquiry,” said Ms. Sloan. “Politicians in Washington may not be able to agree on much these days, but at the very least they should be able to agree that efforts to hack the phones of those killed in the worst terrorist attack in American history merits thorough public hearings.”

Stay tuned to witness how hard the Republicans push back against this.