. >> reporter: the letter written by clyde goodman and released today was supposed to be released byee and was somehow leaked to the guardian newspaper first. the editor had jail time for hacking into the voice mail with members of the royal family, he made the claim that the phone hack was so common it was discussed in editorial meetings at news of the world until the former news of the world editor who then went on to become the communications chief for number ten downing street, andy coleson, banned the discussion of it in the sort of semipublic venues, the letter dates from september 2007 and written to goodman at the time he was fired from news of the world and he was dispute thank firing. martha: amy kellogg, thank you very much, reporting live from london. bill the stock market is off triple digits today. not the worst day we've seen, right? >> martha: huh-uh, a long way to go! the day can hold much better things. hang in there, folks. bill: a bombshell from the pentagon proposing a radical change in the pension plans to our service members. details on that and reaction from a