As papers worldwide pick up the story, could Piers be sunk by his own vanity?
Never mind that there's no proof and that the "British lawmakers are a small crew" the presses have been rolling everywhere with the story of Piers possibly being put on the mat back in London .
But the unkindest cut came from the Guardian .That paper pointed out that unlike other senior journalists caught up in the scandal, Scotland Yard is not responsible for turning up the heat on Morgan.
" Rather, in what his enemies might suggest is proof that there is such a thing as divine retribution, it is Morgan's unchecked vanity.
"Morgan, who edited the Daily Mirror for nearly a decade until 2004, faces questions over a series of boasts that suggest he was at the very least familiar with the practice of phone hacking."
In the Daily Mail in 2006 he admitted he had heard a message left by Sir Paul McCartney on the phone of Heather Mills, then his wife, in which the former Beatle sounded "lonely, miserable and desperate". Mills now claims the message could have been heard only by hacking into her phone.
Certainly, says the Guardian (with its own black sheep now exposed) Piers knew there were people capable of hacking phones on behalf of journalists.
Of such activities he said on Desert Island Discs, "a lot of it was done by third parties, rather than the staff themselves... that's not to defend it, because obviously you were running the results of their work."
Morgan consistently denies any knowledge that his paper ran stories obtained by hacking, which seems unlikely to sacked Mirror journalist James Hipwell. "He was the beating heart of the paper, nothing happened without him knowing," Hipwell said. "He spent a great deal of time with the showbiz desk, sitting with them as much as twice a day." In 2002 Dominic Mohan, of the Sun's Bizarre column, now the paper's editor, openly joked that "Vodafone's lack of security" was responsible for the showbusiness exclusives of his rivals on the Mirror. And there's more, says the Guardian, " Morgan's chief concern now must be that a heavyweight accuser comes forward whose claims carry more weight. Certainly there is no shortage of people who have it in for him." One MP said "nothing would give me greater pleasure" than to see Morgan humbled.