The Financial Express Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 0000 hours IST
Hewlett-Packard’s Dunn regrets leak scandal
SAN FRANCISCO, SEPT 13: Hewlett-Packard Co chairwoman Patricia Dunn, who agreed to step down amid concerns over the legality of an investigation she authorised, told employees the scandal caused her and the company “major distress and embarrassment.”
“I wish this had never happened,” Dunn, who will remain a director after leaving the post of chairwoman in January, said in a video message yesterday. “I speak from my heart when I say this situation is the last thing I ever wished for, intended or expected.”
Dunn addressed her comments to the 150,000 employees of the world’s second-largest personal-computer maker in a joint address with chief executive officer Mark Hurd. Pressure on Dunn, 53, escalated in the past week after the US justice department, the federal bureau of investigation and lawmakers began probing investigators’ use of fake identities to obtain phone records of Hewlett-Packard directors and reporters.
California attorney general Bill Lockyer late on Tuesday told PBS that he had enough evidence to indict Hewlett-Packard officials and contractors over the methods they used to gain access as part of the investigation.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=140309
BBC News Thursday 14th September 2006
Former US president Jimmy Carter has criticised British foreign policy under Tony Blair in a BBC interview.
BBC News Thursday, 14 September 2006, 19:27 GMT 20:27 UK
Ex-president blasts Blair US role
 Mr Carter, the 39th US president, is an opponent of the war on Iraq |
Ex-US President Jimmy Carter has said he is "disappointed" by the apparently subservient attitude of the British government towards the White House.
Mr Carter said Tony Blair was a good man, but could have used his influence with President Bush more wisely.
The 81-year-old said there had once been "a very strong voice from London in the shaping of a common policy".
His comments, to the BBC's Newsnight, come with Mr Blair under pressure over the timing of his exit from power.
Mr Blair's close relationship with the White House has caused him difficulties throughout his years at Number 10.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5346976.stm
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: Good for Jimmy Carter
Date: Thursday 14 September 2006 16:24
From: Gary D Chance
To: news24@bbc.co.uk
Tell it like it is, Jimmy. Bravo.
The real truth is that sovereignty has shifted to King Bush. The UK is his dogsbody.
*****End of the Email*****
BBC News Thursday, 14 September 2006, 17:39 GMT 18:39 UK
Short in Labour expulsion threat
 Ms Short led backbench criticism of the most recent war in Iraq |
Ex-Cabinet minister Clare Short may be disciplined for calling for a hung Parliament after the next election.
Ms Short said she would not stand again for the Commons and attacked government policy, which Labour Chief Whip Jacqui Smith described as "unacceptable".
The MP could lose the Labour whip as a result, she added. Ms Short shrugged off the threat of punishment and said it would be "fine" if that happened.