money.cnn.com— Former officials and string of private investigators decline to testify in front of House panel Thursday, choosing to invoke their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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It's obvious that HP is involved in much more than corporate spying.There's price fixing of ink-jet cartridge throughout the industry -- keeping prices high. If they'll trash privacy, they'll also collude with others to fix prices.Lawmakers and investigators should broaden their scope and see what else HP is hiding.
Honestly the first thing that comes to mind is some cliche filled mobster movie with the Godfather in the hotseat saying in a Brando-eque voice "I uhh plead the fifth your honor, capice?". But no ones disputing what happened, instead they all shrug, say oops and plead the fifth to cover their own asses. What get's me though is how our government can sit there with a straight face and conduct this inquiry. I mean it's not like they are pretty much letting Bush get carte blanch to spy on any American in any way he chooses. And this after the hubub about his warrantless wiretaps. But I guess it's do as Bush says, not as Bush does.One thing is for certain, it's just gonna get more interesting. Since this is now a very public Federal issue, we can be damn sure the Justice department will be camping out at HP HQ for the next few months and driving hot pokers up everyones butts so they can start indicting for criminal charges. $100 says that Dunn gets 3 months in Camp Cupcake, the actual investigators get 5 years each in FPMITAP and that will be the end of it.
The thing I watched on this led me to think that nothing big really happened. It seemed like the private investigators went to far. And they bundled some corporate standard procedure stuff like scanning emails in to make it seem worse and make it seem like these officials who hired the investigators had more to do with it. Just my conclusions based on very little info.
hiscitySep 29, 2006
It's obvious that HP is involved in much more than corporate spying.There's price fixing of ink-jet cartridge throughout the industry -- keeping prices high. If they'll trash privacy, they'll also collude with others to fix prices.Lawmakers and investigators should broaden their scope and see what else HP is hiding.
zipkoSep 29, 2006
Damn bill of rights... always getting in the way.
r__ainSep 29, 2006
Honestly the first thing that comes to mind is some cliche filled mobster movie with the Godfather in the hotseat saying in a Brando-eque voice "I uhh plead the fifth your honor, capice?". But no ones disputing what happened, instead they all shrug, say oops and plead the fifth to cover their own asses. What get's me though is how our government can sit there with a straight face and conduct this inquiry. I mean it's not like they are pretty much letting Bush get carte blanch to spy on any American in any way he chooses. And this after the hubub about his warrantless wiretaps. But I guess it's do as Bush says, not as Bush does.One thing is for certain, it's just gonna get more interesting. Since this is now a very public Federal issue, we can be damn sure the Justice department will be camping out at HP HQ for the next few months and driving hot pokers up everyones butts so they can start indicting for criminal charges. $100 says that Dunn gets 3 months in Camp Cupcake, the actual investigators get 5 years each in FPMITAP and that will be the end of it.
aeliasSep 29, 2006
Bwahaha. First thing I thought of was Pesci "It's always better wit no witnesses"
unitedstatiansSep 29, 2006
Dawn Kawamoto and Tom Krazit (writers for cnetnews.com) were being investigated by HP because of this article published January 23, 2006 submitted on digg 249 days ago by diggmeplease (<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/users/diggmeplease">http://digg.com/users/diggmeplease</a> )<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/HP_hashes_out_new_strategy">http://digg.com/tech_news/HP_hashes_out_new_strategy</a>desde cnetnews.com - original direct link<a class="user" href="http://news.com.com/HP+outlines+long-term+strategy/2100-1014_3-6029519.html?tag=nefd.lede">http://news.com.com/HP+outlines+long-term+strategy/2100-1014_3-6029519.html?tag=nefd.lede</a>other mirror sources:Google cache<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.com.com%2FHP%2Boutlines%2Blong-term%2Bstrategy%2F2100-1014_3-6029519.html%3Ftag%3Dnefd.lede&btnG=Search">http://www.google.com/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.com.com%2FHP%2Boutlines%2Blong-term%2Bstrategy%2F2100-1014_3-6029519.html%3Ftag%3Dnefd.lede&btnG=Search</a>Coral Cache 8080<a class="user" href="http://news.com.com.nyud.net:8080/HP+outlines+long-term+strategy/2100-1014_3-6029519.html?tag=nefd.lede">http://news.com.com.nyud.net:8080/HP+outlines+long-term+strategy/2100-1014_3-6029519.html?tag=nefd.lede</a>Coral Cache 8090<a class="user" href="http://news.com.com.nyud.net:8090/HP+outlines+long-term+strategy/2100-1014_3-6029519.html?tag=nefd.lede">http://news.com.com.nyud.net:8090/HP+outlines+long-term+strategy/2100-1014_3-6029519.html?tag=nefd.lede</a>Archive.org Wayback Machine<a class="user" href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.com.com/HP+outlines+long-term+strategy/2100-1014_3-6029519.html?tag=nefd.lede">http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.com.com/HP+outlines+long-term+strategy/2100-1014_3-6029519.html?tag=nefd.lede</a>
tocksinSep 29, 2006
i used to work at HP. It was a quality company back then. I left when they hired the first chick to run the company. Looks like I choose wisely...
xs650Sep 29, 2006
5th amendment? Render them to some turd world CIA prison and get the truth out of them.
socokoolaidSep 29, 2006
The thing I watched on this led me to think that nothing big really happened. It seemed like the private investigators went to far. And they bundled some corporate standard procedure stuff like scanning emails in to make it seem worse and make it seem like these officials who hired the investigators had more to do with it. Just my conclusions based on very little info.
burritovisionSep 30, 2006
HP officials refuse to testify, "aka" HP stock drops 10-20% this week, 30-50% for the term.