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Congress Asks HP for Information
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo! is reporting that HP has been asked by Congress to turn over records related to the internal investigation of possible illegal media leaks. This request came as a part of the continuing look by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee into 'pretexting.' From the article: 'The Federal Communications Commission has also taken interest in HP, asking AT&T Inc. last week how the company's private investigators managed to obtain the private phone records of board members and journalists. Following the investigation, board member George Keyworth II was identified as the source of the leak, and HP responded by barring him from seeking re-election.'"
Dunn's been a director since '98, even before Fiorina was around.
If it's a formal asking, yes. They're called Congressional subpoenas. Failure to due so can result in contempt of Congress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress
The House Committee's Letter to HP (PDF).
I find it amazing that they would get involved with a private business, but allow a president to ignore our rights.
We have a republican president and a republican-controlled congress. Don't think for a moment that if we had a democrat president and democrat-controlled congress we wouldn't have the exact same problem. Partisan politics means protecting your party even in cases of egregious wrong. American politics needs a serious dose of proportional representation. But that would require democrat and republican politicians to agree to change the system. Somehow, I don't think that's gonna happen. They both play the gerrymandering game - they're both fairly corrupt.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
Make sarcastic comments about the administation? Seppuku!