Congress Enters Media Leak Probe
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By AP Wire Services  SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Congress and federal investigators on Monday entered the fray surrounding Hewlett-Packard Co.'s possibly illegal probe of media leaks, as the company's board met to discuss the fate of its embattled chairwoman.    With the FBI, the U.S.
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US congress and federal prosecutors have launched an informal inquiry into the way Hewlett-Packard Co conducted an internal probe into who on its board leaked information to the media in 2005, when it ousted Carly Fiorina as CEO.
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The Colorado Legislature launched an investigation Tuesday into whether a state lawmaker should be disciplined for kicking a newspaper photographer.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  HOUSTON - Two congressional leaders asked the Department of Justice on Thursday to investigate whether NASA's general counsel broke the law when he destroyed recordings of a talk between the space agency's boss and the staff of its internal watchdog office.
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The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the U.S. government to review the phone records of two New York Times reporters as part of an effort to discover who leaked information about a terrorism-funding probe involving Islamic charities.
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A look at actions in Congress on Tuesday:
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By HERB JACKSON, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT  An aide to then-Rep. Bob Menendez tried to get reporters to investigate former Florida Rep. Mark Foley in 2005 after receiving several e-mails Foley had written to a former House page, the House ethics committee disclosed Friday.
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A scandal over a U.S. Republican congressman sending sexually explicit e-mails to underage boys ratcheted up on Sunday with the FBI and a congressional ethics committee looking into the accusations.
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Two senior U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday raised questions about the Securities and Exchange Commission's handling of an insider trading investigation that involved hedge fund Pequot Capital and John Mack, chief executive of Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley .
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  said on  Sunday that it used improper methods to access phone records of  two employees, including its own spokesman, in an internal  probe into leaks to the media.
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By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 18--Hewlett-Packard delivered a stack of documents to Congress today  related to its boardroom-leak probe, in advance of hearings later this month  to take testimony from HP's chairman and top inside and outside lawyers.
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U.S. lawmakers opened their own investigation on Thursday of the cybersex scandal involving a Republican congressman who sent lewd messages to young aides, and will interview dozens of officials just weeks before the November 7 elections, imperiling Republican control of Congress.
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The House Democratic leader Thursday asked for an investigation of alleged threatening remarks made to the ethics committee chairman by GOP lawmakers.
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By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 18--Hewlett-Packard faces a deadline today to provide Congress with  documents about its boardroom-leak probe, which is under criminal  investigation by the California attorney general.
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin on Monday ordered a formal investigation into why two agency reports on media ownership were never made public.
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The F.B.I. has begun a preliminary inquiry into former Representative Mark FoleyÂs e-mail exchanges with teenage pages, and leaders of both parties demanded inquiries.
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Patricia Dunn had launched an investigation into a media leaks that resulted in a firestorm of controversy and potential lawsuits.