9/11 Families Meeting Eric Holder Over Murdoch Phone Hacking

Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to meet Aug. 24 with some of the 9/11 family members regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the allegations surrounding Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

According to a London tabloid's story based on unnamed sources, a former New York police officer-turned-private investigator said he'd been contacted by journalists from Murdoch's News of the World who offered to pay him to retrieve private phone records of Sept. 11 victims in the United States. The story said the investigator turned down the proposal. The U.S.-based parent company of Murdoch's operations, News Corp., has said that "we have not seen any evidence to suggest there was any hacking of 9/11 victim's phones, nor has anybody corroborated what are clearly very serious allegations.