27
September
2006
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22:19 PM
America/Los_Angeles

Dunn: I thought it was legal


UPDATE: Dunn will take the Fifth. What about Hurd?


How did Pattie Dunn come to work directly with Ron DeLia for HP's anti-spying probe? In her written testimony (PDF) today, she says she was pointed by Bob Wayman, then the acting CEO, to Kevin Huska, HP's global security chief. Huska referred her to DeLia, whom, she says, worked almost exclusively for HP. Thus, "I did not hird the private investigators who were involved in the Kona ... investigations. They were already under contract to HP when the leak investigation was initiated."

She relied on DeLia to understand the legality of the operation:


As a matter of course I asked Mr. Delia at every point of contact for his representation that everything being done was proper, legal and fully in compliance with HP's normal practices. ... At some point during the late spring of 2005, I became aware from Mr. Delia that phone records were accessed as a standard component of such investigations from HP. The clear impression I had from Mr. Delia was that such records could be obtained from publicly available sources in a legal and appropriate manner ... I now believe that not only I, but all of the executives upon whom I relied at HP ... were similarly confident that these records were accessed under fully legal circumstances.


To that point, Rep. Ed Whitfield said in his intro minutes ago: "If there are legitimate ways to get access to someone's personal phone records without their consent, short of a subpoena, I'd like to know about it."