Just Fire Him Already

It now appears that, British authorities believed that current Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis  was actively impeding the investigation of the phone hacking scandal. 

This guy is dirty as hell.  Fire his lily white ass:

Will Lewis, now the publisher of the Washington Post, was in full crisis mode in 2011. Then an executive at a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, he was an intermediary to the police detectives investigating a British phone-hacking scandal that had placed the company’s journalists and top leaders in legal peril.

For years, reporters at News Corporation’s best-selling British tabloid had landed scoops by paying public officials and illegally listening to the voice mail messages of royals, politicians, celebrities and even a murdered girl. Mr. Lewis was supposed to cooperate with the police, identify wrongdoing and help steer the company through the crisis.

His role, he would later say, was as a force for good. He was “draining the swamp.”

But confidential documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with people involved in the criminal investigation show that, almost from the beginning, investigators with London’s Metropolitan Police were suspicious of the company’s intentions, and came to view Mr. Lewis as an impediment.

The police suspected that the company was trying to “steer the investigation into a very narrow remit” by pointing the finger at a few journalists “while steering the investigation away from other journalists and editors,” one of the lead detectives wrote in a previously undisclosed internal summary of events.

Scotland Yard detectives were shocked to learn that the company had deleted millions of internal emails, despite notices from a lawyer for an alleged phone hacking victim and the police explicitly asking that any documents related to the investigation be preserved, according to police records and interviews with investigators.

You don't "just" delete millions of emails by accident.

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High-profile lawsuits are also moving forward in London, brought against News Corp. by Prince Harry and other victims of hacking. The claims have not yet been tested in court but they include new details about Mr. Lewis’s role in the scandal. The episode has attracted even greater interest since Mr. Lewis tried to suppress news coverage of the litigation.

He covered Rupert Murdoch's ass, and followed this up by a stratospheric rise though Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp(se).  No evidence of a quid pro quo here, huh?

There is no light at the end of the tunnel for Mr. Lewis, nor for Mr. Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, because you are not in a tunnel, you are digging a hole.