US officials await Murdoch phone-hacking report

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Senior British judge Brian Leveson is set to release the findings of his yearlong inquiry into phone-hacking and media ethics by newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch and others.By Keir Simmons and Ian Johnston, NBC NewsUpdated at 8:15 a.m. ET: LONDON -- The chairman of the Senate commerce committee signaled he will be paying close attention to the findings of a U.K. report into phone-hacking and media ethics by newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch and others, amid concern U.S. laws may have been broken.

Senator Jay Rockefeller called on investigators in the U.K. to hold media companies accountable for their “deplorable conduct,” ahead of the release of a report by the year-long Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press Thursday.

It is expected to be “excoriating” about the wrongdoing of journalists.

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