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SAN JOSE California's attorney general will seek criminal indictments Wednesday against former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and four others involved in the corporate spying scandal, according to news reports. Citing people familiar with the case, The New York Times and BusinessWeek reported that Dunn, Kevin Hunsaker, HP's ousted chief ethics officer, and Ronald DeLia, a Boston-area private investigator, would each face criminal charges. Two other outside investigators Joseph DePante of Melbourne, Fla. and Bryan Wagner of Littleton, Colo. were also being charged, the Times said. They each will face four felony charges: use of false or fraudulent pretenses to...

WASHINGTON - The investigation into leaks about a domestic spying program should determine whether the motivation was damaging security or revealing a potentially illegal activity, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday. "There are differences between felons and whistleblowers, and we ought to wait 'til the investigation occurs to decide what happened," said Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y. On Friday, the Justice Department opened an investigation into who divulged the existence of President Bush's secret domestic spying program. The New York Times reported last month about warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency since...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Two former officials of a pro-Israel lobbying group pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges they conspired to obtain and disclose classified U.S. defense information related to the Middle East. Steven J. Rosen, 63, and Keith Weissman, 53, were foreign policy experts at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a prominent lobbying organization on Capitol Hill. Federal prosecutors allege that the two men obtained classified government reports for five years, beginning in 1999, on various issues relevant to American policy, including al-Qaida, terrorist activities in Central Asia, the bombing of the Khobar Towers dormitory in Saudi Arabia and...