"Pretexting" – It’s Been All The Rage

Pretexting is the legal cause celebre at least for this week. The Attorney General of California (a male) has indicted the former Chairman of the Board of a major corporation (a woman) because a subcontractor hired by a private investigator to find who was leaking confidential Board of Director discussions hit pay dirt and outed the culprit (a male). The subcontractor claimed to be someone other than who he was to obtain telephone records of newspaper reporters and the current Board member. Strangely, NOW (the National Organization of Women – formerly an organization which needed no introduction) has remained silent in the face of the take down of the management of the most woman run major corporation in America. Its CEO, its General Counsel, as well as the Chairman of the Board were simultaneously and at one time all women.