(Democrat) Senators Urge Federal Investigation of Murdoch Media C

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Communist News Network:

(CNN) -- The phone-hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's media empire intensified in the United States Wednesday as three senators urged the Justice Department to investigate whether one of Murdoch's U.S.-based companies violated federal anti-bribery and other laws.

A fourth senator told CNN he is considering launching his own investigation into the spreading scandal.

Sens. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, and Barbara Boxer, D-California, sent letters to Attorney General Eric Holder asking Holder to look into concerns that News Corp. -- the parent company of Fox News -- violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, known as the FCPA. The law, enacted in 1977, makes it illegal for a U.S. person or company to pay foreign officials to obtain or retain business.

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, also wrote to Holder, asking him to examine whether journalists working for Murdoch tapped into the phones of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

News of the World, a 168-year-old British newspaper owned by Murdoch, printed its last edition Sunday in the wake of accusations that its reporters illegally eavesdropped on the phone messages of murder and terrorist victims, politicians and celebrities. Police in the United Kingdom have identified almost 4,000 potential targets of phone hacking.

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This is all CNN talks about now, MSNBC as well. The debt ceiling and everything else is reduced to a blurb.

They think this is the chance they have been waiting for, to get rid of Fox News once and for all.

[Casino67]

I am pretty sure I saw somewhere that Rep. Peter King also called for an investigation by DOJ.