LONDON (MCT) — Rupert Murdoch “exhibited willful blindness” toward the illegal phone hacking that was rife at the News of the World tabloid and is “not a fit person” to head a major international company such as News Corp., a panel of British lawmakers said in a stinging report Tuesday.

Murdoch’s son, James. also showed poor leadership in failing to get to the bottom of the hacking scandal, but neither he nor his father lied to Parliament about their knowledge of the extent of the problem, the report said.