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Report: H-P Chief Approved 'Sting' on Journalist

A Reuters newswire article by Duncan Martell, via eWeek, reports that:

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Chief Executive Mark Hurd had approved a "sting" operation on a reporter to investigate boardroom media leaks, The Washington Post reported, and embattled Chairman Patricia Dunn said she looked forward to "setting the record straight" soon.

The Post said in its Thursday edition that an e-mail by a company lawyer to Dunn was the first document linking Hurd to the internal investigation which is now the subject of criminal probes. Private investigators impersonated people to gain the phone records of directors, HP employees and reporters, the company has acknowledged.

"I spoke to Mark (Hurd) a few minutes ago and he fine with both the concept and the content," of the sting, senior counsel Kevin Hunsaker told Dunn in a February 23 e-mail, according to the Post.

posted by Fergie @ 9/21/2006 11:27:00 AM