人人自危 布莱尔卷入窃听门丑闻

Former British prime minister Tony Blair offered to be an “unofficiAl adviser” to Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, and his son James at the height of the phone hacking scandal, a trial has heard.

伦敦庭审期间曝光的消息显示，英国前首相托尼•布莱尔(Tony Blair，上图右)曾在电话窃听丑闻全面爆发之际自告奋勇，要当新闻国际(News International)原首席执行官丽贝卡•布鲁克斯(Rebekah Brooks，上图左)、传媒大亨鲁珀特•默多克(Rupert Murdoch)及其儿子詹姆斯(James)的“非正式顾问”。

According to an email from Ms Brooks to James Murdoch, then executive chairman of News International, Ms Brooks says she had spent an hour on the phone to Mr Blair. It adds: “He is available to you, KRM [Rupert Murdoch] and me as an unofficial adviser but needs to be between us.”

根据布鲁克斯发给时任新闻国际执行董事长詹姆斯•默多克的一封电子邮件，布鲁克斯表示，她与布莱尔在电话中谈了一个小时。邮件还称：“他可以为你、KRM（鲁珀特•默多克）和我当一个非正式顾问，但这件事只能我们知道。”

The email, which was read out to the court, also says that Mr Blair allegedly advised her to set up an independent unit to produce a “Hutton style” report into the hacking allegations – a reference to the inquiry into the death of UK weapons expert David Kelly in 2003.

在庭上宣读的这封邮件还表示，布莱尔据称建议她成立一个独立小组，针对窃听指控出炉一份“赫顿风格”的报告——指2003年针对英国武器专家戴维•凯利(David Kelly)死亡所展开的调查。

Ms Brooks sent the email on July 11, the same day that Labour leader Ed Miliband gave a televised press briefing denouncing the hacking scandal. The email was also sent a day after the News of the World published its final edition.

布鲁克斯发出这封邮件的日期是7月11日，就在同一天，工党领袖埃德•米利班德(Ed Miliband)举行了电视新闻发布会，谴责窃听丑闻。发出这封邮件的一天前，《世界新闻报》(News of the World)出版了停刊前的最后一期。

Rupert Murdoch closed the Sunday tabloid, then part of his UK newspaper empire, after widespread public anger over the revelation that the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been hacked by the tabloid.

这份周日小报当时是默多克英国报业帝国的一部分。默多克关闭该报之前，该报窃听惨遭杀害的女学生米莉•多乐(Milly Dowler)的手机的消息引发了普遍的公众愤怒。

Prosecutors have claimed that Ms Brooks and six other defendants were part of an alleged conspiracy to intercept the voicemails of high-profile figures. All seven defendants deny all the charges against them.

检方称，布鲁克斯和另外六名被告均参与了意在窃听知名人士语音邮件的阴谋。七个被告均否认针对自己的全部刑事指控。

The case is one of the most high profile UK criminal prosecutions of recent times.

此案是英国近年最引人注目的刑事诉讼案之一。

According to Ms Brooks’ email, Mr Blair advised her to set up an “independent unit” with an outside counsel, Ken Macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, “a great and good type, a serious forensic criminal barrister”.

根据布鲁克斯的邮件，布莱尔建议她成立一个“独立小组”，并聘请前刑事检控专员肯•麦当劳(Ken Macdonald)担任外部律师，称他是“一个德高望重的人，严肃的刑事鉴识大律师”。

It adds: “Get them to investigate . . . and publish a Hutton style report”.

邮件继续称：“让他们去调查……然后发表一份赫顿风格的报告”。

Mr Blair appointed Lord Hutton. His report cleared Mr Blair, then prime minister and the government of any responsibility for Mr Kelly’s death and allegations of misleading the country over the Iraq war.

当年布莱尔任命赫顿勋爵(Lord Hutton)领导调查工作。赫顿后来在报告中宣称，时任英国首相的布莱尔及其政府对凯利之死没有任何责任，有关布莱尔在发动伊拉克战争问题上误导国家的指控也是没有根据的。

According to the email, Mr Blair’s final advice to Ms Brooks was: “It will pass. Tough up. Keep strong and definitely sleeping pills.”

根据该邮件，布莱尔最后向布鲁克斯提供的建议是：“这件事会过去的。坚强一些。要挺住，安眠药绝对不能少。”

Ms Brooks begins her defence case today. The case continues.

布鲁克斯今日开始为自己辩护。此案仍在审理中。