From the Associated Press (at Washington Post):
<<A Yahoo Inc. executive [Michael Callahan] was accused Tuesday of giving false testimony to Congress last year regarding the company's role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist.
A House committee wants Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and general counsel Michael Callahan to clarify at a Nov. 6 hearing (...)
San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation released documents in late July showing that the Beijing State Security Bureau had written Yahoo saying it wanted evidence about journalist Shi Tao, who was suspected of "illegally providing of state secrets to foreign entities," the committee said.>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101601427.html
Shi was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Yahoo's Callahan at the 2006 hearings said he had no information about the nature of that investigation, AP explains.
According to AP, Yahoo's Tracy Schmaler says the committee's allegations are "grossly unfair" and a mischaracterization of the "the nature and intent" of Yahoo's past testimony. |