Cameron was too friendly.

The Leveson Inquiry was set up by Prime Minister, David Cameron to look into phone hacking by News International journalists. Earlier we saw family amnesia from both Rupert and James Murdoch who could not remember whether they had been told about or seen any emails regarding phone hacking. However, that did not prevent Rupert Murdoch from remembering that the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown told him in a phone conversation in April 2009," Well your company has declared war on my government and we have no alternative but to make war on you." This was after News International decided to switch support from Labour to the Tories from 30 September 2009. Gordon Brown testified that such a conversation " never took place ", which has now been confirmed from records released by Downing Street which do not show any phone call to Murdoch during that month. So either Murdoch lied under oath or has become so senile that he is hallucinating. Being a lawyer by profession Tony Blair was smooth and, while he acknowledged that newspaper owners had too much power, he said that he chose to manage his relationship with Murdoch rather than confronting him because that would have interfered with his duties as prime minister. David Cameron seems to have been much too friendly both to the Murdochs and to CEO of News International, Rebekah Brooks. Born in 1968, Brooks was editor of the News of the World from 2000-2003, editor of The Sun from 2003-2009 and then was CEO of News International from 2009-2011 when she had to resign over the scandal. She married actor Ross Kemp in 2002 and spent a night in jail for assaulting her husband on 3 November 2005. She married her present husband Charlie Brooks in June 2009. She is also a personal friend of Cameron and sent him a text message on 7 October 2009 which said," I am so rooting for you tomorrow not just as a proud friend but because professionally we're definitely together! Speech of your life! Yes he Cam." Sounds more like a girlfriend. In his testimony Cameron flatly denied that there was any " overt or covert ", or indeed any " nod and wink " agreement with Murdoch under which Murdoch would be given an easy run to take over 60.9% of BSkyB, which he was desperate to buy, in return for the support of his news empire for the Tories. However, he went ballistic when Vince Cable of the LibDems was caught saying that he had " declared war " on Murdoch's bid to buy BSkyB in a sting operation by the Daily Telegraph but has been staunchly defending Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt who was in constant contact with James Murdoch and PR man Frederic Michel and seemed to be doing everything in his power to make the deal successful. He may deny as forcefully as he can but Cameron will never be able to erase a suspicion of a quid pro quo. The British are masters of whitewash so let us hope that this inquiry will be more productive than the Hutton inquiry into David Kelly's death.