Lawmaker Wants Yahoo Probe

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Lawmaker Wants Yahoo Probe

By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press Writer

Friday, August 3, 2007


(08-03) 14:33 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Congressional investigators plan to look into whether Yahoo officials misrepresented the Internet company's role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist sentenced to a decade in jail.

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos ordered the investigation after a human rights group released a document that it said raised questions about what Yahoo knew when it shared information with authorities about Shi Tao. Beijing officials had sought Shi for sending an e-mail about Chinese media restrictions.

"For a firm engaged in the information industry, Yahoo sure has a lot of secrecy to answer for," said Lantos, D-Calif. "We expect to learn the truth and to hold the company to account."

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