Gee, just when I think I cannot top the last post ...

... this stunning development comes along.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/now-fbi-looking-murdoch-medias-phone
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-fbi-news-corp-20110714,0,3287201.story?track=rss

Responding to allegations from several Washington lawmakers, the FBI has opened an investigation into whether Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. attempted to hack into the telephones of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the families of those who died.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8638851/Phone-hacking-FBI-launches-investigation-into-Rupert-Murdochs-News-Corp.html

It'll be a bit hard for the right-wing in this country to spin this, as the request for investigation came from a Republican House member.

Though this isn't to say the Democrats aren't getting in on this -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8637942/It-is-in-America-that-Rupert-Murdoch-faces-ruin.html

Congressional investigations loom: Senator Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat who chairs the Senate commerce committee, has declared that if Murdoch tabloids hacked the phones of 9/11 victims or any other Americans, “the consequences will be severe”.