Hewlett-Packard's former chairwoman, now indicted by California's Attorney General for starting an allegedly illegal investigation into boardroom leaks, tells her story in a 1500-word piece in today's Wall Street Journal.

Of course the headline is an obvious statement on the buck-passing execs and investigators at Hewlett-Packard over an allegedly fradulent leak investigation scandal, but am I the only one who wants these guys to get into a poking match?

• An ABC News writer and ex-HP employee says Carly Fiorina (photo from Freaking News) is a lucky bitch who screwed up HP in a quest for personal glory. [ABC News]

Q. How do you get tough on privacy breaches?
A. Appoint a watchdog who isn't sure they should be penalized!

HP's former CEO and chairwoman told 60 Minutes last night, "When I get very angry, I get very quiet." And then she writes a book. Carly Fiorina is riding the HP scandal high, knowing she's a golden source, and each interview is secretly a pitch for her new memoir. Fiorina's story: When revealing news articles made it clear that someone on the board was leaking confidential info to the press, she put her foot down, but she didn't stomp through the law in the process.

How much does Patricia Dunn really know about illegal investigations? The former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman frustrated the panel at her Congressional hearing by claiming utter ignorance about the law and the nature of her company's investigation into a boardroom leak. At one point, she said that during the ill-fated HP investigation, she believed phone records were publicly available to anyone, causing Representative Greg Walden to freeze for five seconds making this face:

• What will the effect of Jeffrey Johnson's ouster from the LAT be? Well, for one thing, it will allow every media outlet to print articles like this one, which speculates about the effect of Jeffrey Johnson's ouster from the LAT. [WSJ]
• Nikki Finke thinks Dean Baquet is a big pussy. [DHD]
• Carly Fiorina wants credit for H-P's turnaround. H-P's spying? Not so much. [NYT]
• Jack Shafer is bullish on Bloomberg News, even though its news "has all the mouth-feel of a cup of talc." Yeah, it took us a while to get that one out of our heads too. [Slate]
• Now you can be bored by twelve full years of Charlie Rose. [WWD]
• Even when Jon Friedman admits to spouting the conventional wisdom he's spouting the conventional wisdom. [Marketwatch]

Despite the announcement that Patricia Dunn will surrender to authorities now that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer indicted her with the felony of fraudulently obtaining phone records, she may never see trial. The former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard is starting chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, after beating cancer twice before.

Hewlett-Packard's former CEO reveals in her new memoir that she authorized the now-infamous investigation of boardroom leaks before Mark Hurd replaced her, according to the New York Times.

California's attorney general plans to indict former Hewlett-Packard chair Patricia Dunn for her role in investigating a boardroom news leak, according to the New York Times. Other indictees will include a former HP senior lawyer and three outside investigators.

"Where do you want to go today?" "Think Different." "No wonder it's number one." The tech world's vague slogans may seem interchangeable, but if they're applied to the wrong product — even within the same company — they could prove disastrous.

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Tech tabloid The Inquirer picks up a dirty firing technique by Hewlett-Packard that leaves ex-employees with an "anti-bonus." Thought we'd point to it since HP hasn't gotten enough bad press lately.

• "Among the many measures of a successful foreign investment, helping to set off a coup d' tat is definitely not one of them," says the New York Times, writing about Singapore company Temasek's purchase of Thailand's major telecom company from the family of the then-prime minister, months before a military coup overthrew him. [NY Times]

The highlight of yesterday's Congressional hearing over a sketchy Hewlett-Packard investigation came when Congressman Greg Walden asked HP ex-chair Patricia Dunn, if she didn't know investigators were lying to phone companies to get targets' phone records, how she thought they got them.

Quick, which detective case does the scandalous Hewlett-Packard leaker investigation resemble? The New York Times can't decide. Their latest piece on the scandal includes:

I asked, reader Jon Grubb had the idea, and tech-industry joker Theo DP executed this clever comment on the execs from Hewlett-Packard, makers of the HP digital camera with slimming features.

Hero of the day's Hewlett-Packard Congressional hearings: Representative Greg Walden, who tried hard to wave a smoking gun in HP Chairwoman Pat Dunn's face. Dunn spent the whole day expressing surprise at every piece of information — leading one Congressman to remind himself out loud, "You were the chair of HP."

During today's Congressional hearings on Hewlett-Packard's possibly illegal pretexting investigation, a panelist cites an e-mail from investigator Vince Nye to HP. According to the New York Times, Nye's e-mail said that the pretexting his investigation used was "very unethical at the least, and quite likely illegal" and "could damage our reputation or worse."

"The press is entirely wrong," Hewlett-Packard counsel Larry Sonsini just told a Congressional hearing panelist. "I never took the position that pretexting is legal." He's speaking now at the hearing about HP's pretexting case.