Ex-tabloid editor decries hacking charges
LONDON — 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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