By Martin HickmanRebekah Brooks was the mastermind behind a litany of phone hacking, illegal payments to a public official and two attempts to hide evidence from the police, the Crown claimed today.Concluding his cross-examination of the tabloid newspaper executive, Andrew Edis QC, put it to Mrs Brooks that she "controlled" everyone who had either admitted phone hacking or were being tried for criminal offences."That's not true," she replied.Mr Edis repeatedly demanded to know what had happened to Mrs Brooks's missing digital iPads, iPhones and BlackBerrys. She told the court she assumed they were at News International.Turning to her emails suggesting NI launch an inquiry into hacking in July 2011 which might clear her, Mr Edis said that she was trying to save her skin.In her email recounting Tony Blair's advice to launch a "Hutton-style inquiry," Mr Edis said, she was telling her boss James Murdoch that "Blair thinks there's a way through this where I can keep my job?"Mrs Brooks shot back: "I don't think that was the discussion. I think he was trying to help and perhaps see a way through and give me some suggestions."She said she had not known at the time that her PA, Cheryl Carter, had withdrawn boxes from NI's archive labelled as "Rebekah Brook's notebooks."Nor had she known at the time that her husband Charlie had hidden his laptops and pornography collection from the police the weekend she was arrested. She told the court: "I thought it was an impulsive, ill-thought out decision."Mr Edis asked: "Impulsive, why do you say that?""I assume it was impulsive," she replied."Why?"After a pause, Mrs Brooks replied: "I think it must have been."But the material had been driven from Enstone Manor in Oxfordshire to London and the operation seemed to be "carefully planned rather than impulsive," Mr Edis told her, to which Mrs Brooks said: "I think I may have been referring more to the personal stuff."She said she could not think of a reason why anyone at the News of the World would have concealed Mulcaire's work from her, providing he had been a normal private detective. But she explained again that she had not been told, telling the jury: "I didn't know about Glenn Mulcaire until he was arrested."Pressed on whether a Sun reporter had kept from her the identity of his "top military contact" - who turned out to be an MoD official - Mrs Brooks said: "Yes, he should have told me."Mr Edis said that it was her case that the NoW news editors Greg Miskiw and Neville Thurlbeck and its managing director Stuart Kuttner had hidden Glenn Mulcaire's hacking from her, that she had not known her PA Cheryl Carter was removing boxes from archives, that a Sun reporter had concealed from her that payments were going to a public official, and that her husband had not told her that he was trying to hide his bags from the police. Yet, Mr Edis told her: "You were running your world" - and that she "controlled" them."That's not true," Mrs Brooks replied.Mr Edis told Mrs Brooks: "Your evidence, I'm going to suggest to you, is a carefully prepared and presented script and bears little relation to the truth of these offences."She replied: "It isn't"Mr Edis had no further questions for her.