Millions of 'News of the World' Emails Deleted?
Police said to be probing possible destruction of hacking evidence
News Corp. may just have gotten its 18 minutes of missing tape moment. The Guardian is reporting that police in the U.K. are looking in to the possibility that a "senior executive" with News International, the News Corp. subsidiary that controls the soon-to-be-defunct News of the World tabloid that is at the center of the phone-hacking scandal, deleted millions of emails in an attempt to obstruct the hacking investigation.
According to the Guardian, police believe this executive deleted parts of the archive on two separate occasions, one of them just this past January as a new investigation began.
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