Perhaps you have never been involved in the lying, cheating and underhanded game of politics and you do not see the irony in these Congressional Hearings over the HP pretexting efforts to find out who their internal board member spy was.
HP had a traitor amongst them and they needed to find out who he was in order to protect proprietary information from leaking to the press.
Why you ask? Well the spy was handing out information, which hurt the company and hurt shareholders value and the company's quarterly profits, thus costing the stockholders and investors millions of dollars.
It is the company's responsibility to find out who the leaker is and get rid of him.
But now the leaker says that the HP executives cheated in the way they found him and instead they have broken the law.
This is so petty it was ridiculous and unfortunate because now Congress is getting involved and anyone who has ever been in politics has done, had knowledge or or even authorized the spying on their opponents campaign committees.
It happens in City Council elections, school boards, County Government, State and Federal levels in politics.
It is amazing that these Congressional folks can keep a straight face as they look concerned over this issue? Give me a break, why total hypocrisy indeed.