On the day of the Congressional hearing for Hewlett-Packard, the first federal investigation into corporate espionage practices that could be industry-wide, we're following who says what, but more importantly, who refuses to speak at all. Here's who took the Fifth so far:

Welcome to SV Confidential, the Valleywag court watch that starts with Day 1 of the Congressional hearings for Hewlett-Packard. Today, Congress starts figuring out who to blame for an espionage case that may be just one of scads of corporate investigation scandals.

• Hewlett-Packard's chief in-house lawyer, Ann Baskins, resigned and won't appear in today's Congressional hearing. Her lawyer says Baskins always thought the investigation of HP board members and outside reporters was legal. [NY Times]

• A federal court threw out AMD's antitrust lawsuit against Intel, since the monopolistic activity didn't happen in America. AMD will have to fight Intel in the Asian and European theaters. [Ars Technica]

• Newsweek stands resolute against Gawker's jeers that "while [its recent Annie Leibovitz] story tells of Leibovitz's life and her long-term friendship with the late Susan Sontag, it skips around the question of Leibovitz's sexual orientation." As long as we're jeering, how come there was no mention of Annie running off with the nanny? [NYP]
• No uncomfortable questions were asked at the Bill Keller/Patricia Dunn dinner. Thank God, that would be so tactless. [NYO]
• For those of you who find Rachael Ray insufferably cloying, which should be all of you, maybe Gourmet's Ruth Reichl will be an improvement. RELATED: We get it, Bill Buford, you like cooking. [WWD]

When Hewlett-Packard admitted that the company tried to spy on and misinform journalists at CNET, the New York Times, and other papers, the media was, well, not amused. The upshot is that we all get to see the opposition writing guest editorials in major papers. The lawyer for ex-HP board member Tom Perkins (who resigned when he discovered HP's investigators spied on him) tells the Wall Street Journal:

Because the story that Hewlett-Packard's CEO was too "focused on getting the company fixed" to make sure the chairwoman didn't break it again is ludicrous, and because making comics is fun, here are more situations Mark Hurd can't handle because he's busy with his job.

Friends of Mark Hurd pulled off a beautiful spin job explaining to the New York Times why the Hewlett-Packard CEO didn't stop chairwoman Patricia Dunn and a whole team of investigators from digging up reporters' phone records and planning to plant spies at media outlets.

• You'll find a lot of information in this David Carr piece on how journalists are forced to act like C.I.A. agents, "encoding files, shredding notes and switching cellphones." What you won't find is any mention of the Observer, which reported essentially the same story two Wednesdays ago. [NYT]
• Nancy Grace, desperate to wrest the title of World's Most Vile Human Being from Ann Coutler, adds plagiarism to her list of sins. Ann Coulter is 45. [NYDN]
• Chris Wallace was stunned that a non-confrontational question suggesting that Bill Clinton was responsible for the deaths of 3,000 American citizens might have been taken the wrong way. [FishbowlDC]
• James Truman, footloose and fancy free, is learning to live without Conde cash. Culture and Travel launches Friday. [NYT]
• Jon Friedman wonders why H-P never tapped his phone. Maybe it's because when you write columns like "The media world is in convulsions" you're pretty much identifying yourself as someone who has no new information. [Marketwatch]

HP's chairwoman resigned from the board — at least she'll always be a Hall-of-Famer — and CEO Mark Hurd will immediately replace her. Here's what comes next:

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, now under suspicion for cooperating with chairwoman Patricia Dunn's investigations of board members and reporters, is now the chairman of HP, he announced today. Dunn has resigned from the board — a move that was inevitable eventually, but few thought would happen while the scandal was still fresh in the media.

As the media gears up for HP CEO Mark Hurd (right)'s press conference today, armed with the news that Hurd was involved with the company's sketchy espionage, the San Francisco Chronicle quotes an analyst waxing metaphorical.

• NY Times Tech Headline: "H.P. Investigators Sought Meeting With Top Leaders." We knew all along at H.P. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn was apart of some government conspiracy gone wrong. Is it really that far-fetched that the UN might be involved in the leaks as well? [NY Times]

• When Hewlett-Packard hunted for the board member who leaked info to CNET, they created a fake HP executive, "Jacob," to tip CNET writer Dawn Kawamoto.

Washington Post:

• About 200,000 people have actually shelled out fifty dollars for TimesSelect. Men may not be necessary, but Maureen Dowd's money apparently is. [E&P]
• What was new H-P CEO Mark Hurd doing during the whole "let's spy on journalists" affair? Ratting out his co-directors. [WSJ]
• Troops stand down at LAT amid temporary truce. [NYT]
• Chad Hurley: Business hippie. [NYP]

• Phone fraud offender Hewlett-Packard takes another giant leap towards becoming even more of the class bully, this time with news that they actually conducted feasibility studies to figure out how to plant spies in news bureaus. To be continued tomorrow. Don't worry, by then we'll find out the government was involved in the conspiracy. [NY Times]

Valleywag friend Theo DP has a habit of sending little "gotchas" to a hidden list of bloggers. Here's his latest, riffing on Hewlett-Packard's spying scandal:

• Hewlett-Packard considered the feasibility of planting agents in two news bureaus. It's unclear whether or not the placement actually occurred; maybe Bill Keller can ask Patricia Dunn about it after dinner tonight. [NYT]
• New Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman wants to buy lots of small, cheap web properties. That ought to keep Redstone off his back for a while. [NYP]
• "Romenesko, the sex-offender registry of journalism ethics ..." [API, via TS-ORJE]
• There are about thirty parties interested in buying Time Inc.'s niche properties, but they're mostly European and don't know any better. [NYP]

Patricia Dunn: Chair of Hewlett-Packard's board. Hired investigators to find a board member who leaked information to CNET. Investigators impersonated HP board members and outside reporters to get their personal call records from phone companies. Now Congress, the FBI, and California's attorney general are looking into criminal charges, possibly against Dunn.