The Code

David Cameron's hopes of putting a lid on the phone-hacking scandal were foundering on Wednesday after he was forced to concede he had talked to Rupert Murdoch's executives about their bid to take control of BSkyB.

It is the first time he has made the admission, but he insisted the conversations had been "appropriate" because he did not convey any of those discussions to the politician in sole charge of handling the bid

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Making an exhaustive 139-minute emergency statement to MPs, he edged towards the much-demanded apology about Coulson: "Of course I regret, and I am extremely sorry, about the furore it has caused. With 20/20 hindsight, and all that has followed, I would not have offered him the job, and I expect he would not have taken it."

  UK Guardian

Yeah, if I knew I was gonna get caught, I wouldn’t have done it.

Andy Coulson did not face the rigorous government security checks into his background that most recent Downing Street press chiefs have undergone, it emerged on Wednesday.

The former News of the World editor was granted only mid-level security clearance when he was appointed by David Cameron as his director of communications, so avoiding "developed vetting" involving a detailed interview by government investigators looking for anything in his past that could compromise him.

  UK Guardian

A mere technicality.

The prime minister added: "It was all done in the proper way, he was subject to the special advisers' code of conduct."

The Code. He was subject to THE CODE OF CONDUCT. What more do you want?

Coulson was also screened by a private company when he started working for the Conservatives in 2007. Asked in the Commons, Cameron refused to name the firm involved.

Yes. NONE of this is in the least suspicious.

Mr. Cameron has a headache. Mr. Cameron is sensing a resignation in his very near future.

Or is it that dead whistleblower he's thinking about?

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.