Is the Phone Hacking Scandal the UK's Watergate?

The recent mega-scandal over dodgy "journalistic practices" has exposed a rot so deep it borders on calamitous.  None of this will come as a surprise to long standing critics of Fox News, often jokingly referred to as "Fox Noise" or "Faux News". But this time the fish really does seem to be rotting from the head first, the Head of UK Government that is. British Prime Minister, David Cameron, appears to be in it up to his neck and trying very hard to place a fire-break between himself and the now disgraced and defunct NoW crew.

This past week has seen a flurry of developments as reported:

1) Sunday: The arrest of former Chief Executive, Rebekah Brooks means that she now has the ability to hide behind a "veil of silence" due to the pending criminal inquiry.

2) Monday: The "death" of NoW whistleblower, Sean Hoare,  means that whatever he knew about Andrew Coulson and his connection between Cameron and phone hacking have died with him. His most timely death raises major questions as to how far up the chain this all goes but it is looking more and more like Cameron wanted Coulson on his team because of his "expertise in journalistic practices", including one might surmise those currently under scrutiny.

3) Tuesday: The Murdochs testimony before the U.K. House of Commons where the elder Murdoch, looking sad and sullen, claimed he had no knowledge of the actual hacking, which is not surprising given that all CEO's claim to rarely know the details of the actual activities of their underlings. He is, after all, only the boss.

4) Wednesday: The PM's assertion that that he had not had "one inappropriate conversation"  with Murdoch's team at News Corp regarding the BSkyB deal, looks like an attempt to cover-up a quid-pro-quo.

5) Thursday: Accusations that the younger Murdoch had given apparently perjured testimony in his Tuesday appearance before the UK Parliament in an attempt to protect not only his father and his own inheritance but also it now appears, the current PM.

4) Friday: Revelations that Andy Coulson was being investigated for perjury, while serving under Mr. Cameron.

The plot changes, the rot from the top, the high level resignations of people around the PM, the back room dealings and the timely deaths of informants has all the earmarks of a scandal big enough to bring down a sitting head of state. It harkens back to our own Watergate and leaves one asking of the current PM the age old question, "What did he know and when did he know it"?

As we all know the Cover Up is always worse than the original crimes and it looks now as though David Cameron is running for cover wherever he can find it. Let's hope, for the sake of us all, that further investigation does not reveal that Cameron's team hacked into the phone mail of political adversaries, which now appears to be a real possibility, nor that murder is hidden under that dark cover!