Yeah, right Dep’t:

Employees of the New York Post were instructed Friday to “preserve and maintain” any documents that may relate to the practice of phone hacking or bribing of public officials.

The legal department for News Corp, the Post’s parent company, explained in a memo to Post staff that “we are sending this notice not because any recipient has done anything improper or unlawful. However, given what has taken place in London, we believe that taking this step will help to underscore how seriously we are taking this matter.”

The legal team told employees that it “must preserve and maintain all documents and information” pertaining “to unauthorized retrieval of phone or personal data, to payments for information to government officials.”

Truckloads of shredders are being delivered to NYP offices as I type this.
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