A spokesperson for Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who has called for the FBI investigation into whether News Corp. engaged in similar tactics in the U.S., tells TPM: “Senator Rockefeller is just as concerned today as he was last year as to whether Americans were targets of this type of hacking and whether any US laws were broken.”

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