Hacking on 9/11 families or anyone is " personal profit of news channels"

Attorney General Eric Holder reassured about a dozen family members of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks that the Department of Justice is vigorously investigating allegations that employees of News Corp. may have hacked into phones used by victims and/or their family members.

"(Holder's) words with regard to the allegations, he said they were 'very disturbing,' and that it is a priority for him and the DOJ," said Norman Siegel, the New York-based attorney who accompanied the group to Washington on Wednesday.

One of the 9/11 family members who attended the meeting, and who spoke to Fox News on condition of anonymity, said the federal officials provided next to no details on the status of the probe during the 75-minute session. This individual said Holder described the probe as a "preliminary investigation," but that the attorney general added that this does not mean the investigation is at the beginning stages. jim Riches, a retired New York Fire Department deputy chief whose firefighter son, Jimmy, was killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center, did not identify himself as the individual Siegel was referring to. But Riches, standing alongside Siegel, told reporters: "I received many phone calls after 9/11 concerning body parts and my son...These are things that people don't realize that 9/11 families had to go through. And I would hate to know that people were listening in on these personal phone calls."

Today’s meeting between U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and a group of family members of 9/11 victims was held in Washington and lasted more than hour, according to attorney Norman Siegel, who represents the 9/11 families. The group sought the meeting in the wake of reports that News Corp reporters may have attempted to hack into victims’ family members’ phone numbers, much in the same way journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the Worldhacked into phones of the families of London bombing victims and murdered children, as well as of politicians and celebrities. That fallout from that scandal caused NOTW to shutter and eventually ended News Corp’s bid to take over the UK’s biggest satellite TV provider BSkyB. Holder didn’t say today whether there were phone records indicating tampering on this side of the pond, Siegel said, but did say that the FBI investigation is in the preliminary stages.