The conversation about this in OT is much more grounded in reality. Basically it boils down to his ex mistress attempting to entrap him and perhaps recording him without his consent which is illegal in California. A woman being scorned by a woman scorned.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2380258
But I always do enjoy reading our leftist friends jumping to conclusions in threads the premise of which they support while calling for reasoned dissemination of the facts in threads they don't. BTW, this reasoned dissemination is double-speak for delaying the discussion until the appropriate talking points can be fabricated.