Attorney general issues subpoenas in HP spying drama

The San Jose Mercury News reports:

California's attorney general entered the spying drama surrounding Hewlett-Packard, issuing subpoenas Wednesday to determine whether laws were broken when investigators working with the chairman of the company's board secretly gained access to other board members' phone records.

The Palo Alto computer and printer giant admitted Wednesday that its chairman, Patricia Dunn, worked with outside investigators to find out who was leaking confidential board information to the news media. Those investigators used a technique called ``pretexting,'' posing as someone else, to get board members' phone records, the company said in a statement.

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