The HP scandal involving illegal methods to spy on the board members and journalists continued to grow over the weekend.  Patricia Dunn, chair of HP's board, made the front page of this week's Newsweek.  We've learned that the leak investigation extended to nine journalists and their families (from a story at CBS News):

Peter Burrows, Ben Elgin and Roger Crockett of Business Week; Pui-Wing Tam and George Anders of The Wall Street Journal; Shankland, Dawn Kawamoto and Tom Krazit of CNET's News.com; and John Markoff of The New York Times

I've been watching today what is happening with a scandal involving Hewlett-Packard's Board of Directors.  Back in May, a member of the board, Thomas Perkins of law firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, suddenly resigned from HP's board.  Not a big deal, right?  Well, we've learned why he resigned: at a board meeting, Chairman Patricia Dunn revealed the methods used to investigate and determine the source of leaks to the media from the board.  Perkins resigned from the board due to "questionable ethics and the dubious legality" of the investigative methods, and in particular the method of pretexting used to obtain "private telephone records" of board members.  (The acknowledged leaker, George A. Keyworth II, has refused to resign from the board.)