LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper reported yesterday that News of the World journalists had offered to pay a New York police officer to retrieve the private phone records of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Citing an unidentified source, the newspaper said journalists had wanted the phone numbers of the dead as well as details of the calls they had made and received in the days leading to the attacks.
The police officer, who now works as a private investigator, said at the time that he would turn down the request because of “how bad it would look,” the source was quoted as saying.
