By Ellen Nakashima and Yuki Noguchi
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Congressional investigators have subpoenaed two Hewlett-Packard Co. employees and one contractor to testify before a House investigative subcommittee Thursday as part of the panel's probe of an HP spying scandal that has spawned two criminal investigations. The scandal grew out of a series of media-leak investigations at the Silicon Valley computer giant.

The subpoenas, the first issued by the panel in this case, went out over the weekend to HP senior counsel and ethics director Kevin Hunsaker; former HP global security director Anthony Gentilucci; and Ronald R. DeLia, owner of Security Outsourcing Solutions, a Boston investigative firm HP hired to help identify the sources of media leaks.

Hunsaker, who ran HP's leak investigation this year, has been on paid leave for at least a week, said his attorney Michael Pancer.

Gentilucci has resigned effective today, HP spokesman Ryan Donovan said.

Congress is questioning HP executives and its investigators as part of a broader examination into companies that sell or obtain unauthorized access to phone records.

Hunsaker and Gentilucci were both involved in HP's leak probe, which the company has said involved obtaining private phone records by impersonating directors and journalists. Other tactics, documents show, included secretively following board members and journalists, and embedding tracer software in an e-mail sent to a reporter. The legality of some of those techniques is under investigation by the FBI and California attorney general's office.

Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce investigative subcommittee will question HP chief executive Mark V. Hurd, former chairman Patricia C. Dunn and others.

DeLia's lawyer, John Kiernan, did not return a call seeking comment. Hunsaker committed no crime, his lawyer said. "Everything that Kevin did, everything that Hewlett-Packard employees did, was legal and aboveboard," Pancer said. "And by that, I mean it was consistent with approved and usual investigative techniques."

Staff researcher Richard Drezen contributed to this report.