By Theo DP

Let's play the HP $10,000 Pyramid...

Q. 'I do not know.' 'Not that I recall.' 'I can't say.'

A. Things Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark 'We can win the [post-9/11] information war' Hurd said when asked by Congress to supply more information in writing about HP's spying campaign against journalists and company directors!

Hurd - who once provided data warehousing expertise to six of the top nine communications companies - also tap danced around his earlier stated belief in the existence of a mythical view-anyone's-private-phone-records website in his written responses (PDF, WSJ account needed).

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