Murdoch Says He Used ‘Wrong Adjectives’ for Hacking Probe

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch told lawmakers he “used the wrong adjectives” to describe the police investigation into phone hacking and bribery when speaking to staff on his British newspapers in a secretly recorded conversation.

Keith Vaz, the chairman of Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee, wrote to Murdoch July 12, asking him to say why he thought the probe is “a disgrace” and why he appeared to say in the recording that the company is forcing the police to get court orders to obtain information. Vaz’s intervention came three days after Murdoch agreed to testify again about the scandals to a separate parliamentary panel.