The news simply keeps getting worse in the HP case. Now California’s attorney general issued subpoenas Wednesday in an investigation of whether laws were broken when private investigators, hired by Hewlett-Packard’s board chairwoman, secretly obtained phone records of board members to see who leaked confidential information. Thanks to Therese Poletti and Michele Chandler of the San Jose Mercury News for reporting this.
Key quote:
“I have no settled view as to whether or not the chairwoman’s acts were illegal, but I do think they were colossally stupid,” Bill Lockyer told the Mercury News in an interview. “We’ll have to wait until the investigation concludes to determine whether they were felony stupid or not.”