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Independent of Fiorina's competency as a business executive, she is not the one who left HP disgraced by the pretexting scandal. However, the events surrounding her firing in 2005 did lead to the scandal but Fiorina had nothing to do with it.
HP was underperforming, the Board of Directors made a proposal to Fiorina that would have reorganized her responsibilies and been a big blow to her position with the company. She resisted it. The plan proposed to her was somehow leaked to Newsweek (I think, maybe WSJ) which published it. Fiorina was fired.
The board of directors gave Fiorino's replacement, Pat Dunn, the task of discovering how their private internal communications had been leaked to the press. It was in this period that the illegal pretexting and other investigative abuses happened. All charges against Dunn were eventually dropped.
Really, the obvious lesson to take from the sequential failure of Fiorina and Dunn is that women should not be allowed to run big companies (just twisting the tiger's tail).
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