A disheveled Ann Baskins stood on Sept. 28 before a congressional committee investigating the Hewlett-Packard Co. spying scandal. Baskins’ eyes were puffy, her face wan, her forehead deeply lined, and her usually neatly kept hair was pulled back and askew. Just hours earlier she had made the painful decision to resign as general counsel of the giant computer company.
Standing before the committee, she held her right hand in the air and swore to tell the truth. Then, on the first question, Baskins exercised her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and refused to tell anything.
