LONDON (AP) — A senior judge on Thursday opened an inquiry into Britain's phone-hacking scandal that will start by looking at whether the country needs tougher media regulation.
Justice Brian Leveson said he has the legal power to demand evidence from witnesses — and plans to use it "as soon as possible."
Leveson's inquiry was announced earlier this month by Prime Minister David Cameron in the wake of a scandal over illegal eavesdropping that has closed down the 168-year-old News of the World tabloid and shaken Rupert Murdoch's global media empire.
Leveson's 7-member panel includes a veteran newspaper reporter, a former police chief, a civil liberties activist and a …
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