Rupert Murdoch is a naturalized US citizen. News Corp is a US corporation, incorporated in Delaware.

If the News of the World, a division of a US corporation, bribed British police officers the corporation could be in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which, as former Congresscritter ‘Dollar Bill’ Jefferson can tell you, is enough to put one in prison. That is what the FBI is investigating, not the possible hacking of 9-11 victims and their families.

While Rupert told Parliament yesterday that he doesn’t have time to watch individual members of his far-flung empire, in 2007, while the hacking was being uncovered, Rupert told a panel from the House of Lords that he exercised proprietary control of the Sun and News of the World.

News Corp was attempting to expand its holdings in Britain and Europe, so those markets would have been on the top of the executive agenda.

It is now Category 3 Hurricane Dora posing no threat to any land along the Mexican Pacific Coast.

Tropical Storm Bret is still posing no threat to land as it cruises parallel to the US Atlantic Coast.

Out in the central Atlantic where there is no land, Tropical Storm Cindy has formed.

There is activity, but the same high pressure that is responsible for the current heat wave in the Eastern US is keeping the storms away.

Gap – Pinerolo

Distance: 179.0 kilometers.

A quick trip to Italy in the only riding outside of France this year. The morning is a couple of Category 3s with a sprint between them, and then a Category 1 sandwiched between two Category 2s in afternoon.

Thomas Voeckler ( Fra – EUC – 181 ) [Yellow] 73h 23′ 49″
Mark Cavendish ( GBr – THR – 171 ) [Green] 320 points
Jelle Vanendert ( Bel – OLO – 038 ) [Polka Dot] 74 points
Rigoberto Uran ( Col – SKY – 118 ) 10 [White]

Team: Garmin-Cervelo ( 051-059 ) [Yellow numbers]
Stage winner: Edvald Boasson Hagen ( Nor – SKY – 114 )
Combative: Ruben Perez Moreno ( Esp – EUS – 025 ) [Red numbers]

They’ve gone 2,982.5 kilometers [1,853.2 miles] at an average speed of 40.6 kph [25.2 mph] →.

OVERALL STANDINGS:
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