New revelations have raised further questions about whether Rupert Murdoch, his son James Murdoch, and other top officials at their media empire have lied about their knowledge of phone hacking at the News of the World. On Tuesday, British lawmakers released a letter from former News of the World correspondent Clive Goodman claiming senior executives openly discussed the phone hacking until then-editor Andy Coulson directly ordered them to stop. Coulson, who went on to become the spokesperson for British Prime Minister David Cameron, has publicly denied having any knowledge of the hacking. British lawmaker Tom Watson detailed the letter’s revelations.

Tom Watson: “Within the letter, he makes the allegation that phone hacking was openly discussed at editorial meetings of News of the World, until explicitly stopped by Andy Coulson. And he also says that he was told he would be able to keep his job after the criminal trial was over, if he didn’t implicate others in wrongdoing in his mitigation of the court case. And he said that the editor and the lawyer for the paper gave him that assurance. So they’re very damning allegations indeed.”