HP board member regrets resignation
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Former Hewlett-Packard Co. director Tom Perkins, who helped expose the company’s spying scandal last year, said in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview that he regretted his “emotional” resignation from the board.
Perkins, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, left in May 2006 after learning the Palo Alto company had illegally obtained the phone records of directors, reporters and employees during a probe aimed at identifying the source of boardroom leaks.
Perkins called for then-Chairwoman Patricia Dunn’s ouster for allowing Hewlett-Packard investigators to use fake identities to gain access to personal call records, a tactic called pretexting.
