Posted on 01/06/2003 1:03:06 PM PST by aristeides
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:00:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The head of a computer firm wants the independent commission named to investigate September 11 intelligence failures to review accusations that his software-tracking program, which he says the Justice Department stole, was diverted to Osama bin Laden.
William H. Hamilton, president of Inslaw Inc., said the commission
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I'll ping my list!
Is this the company that the government raided about 6-8 weeks ago on the east coast?
I haven't heard of such a raid.
If this is validated, I think there's enough reason to execute Hanssen for treason. The blood of 3000 is on his hands. Traitor.
Does this mean that Janet Ashcroft will participate in the coverup?
And I've checked out on line that the bankruptcy judge ruled for Inslaw and then failed to be reappointed to a new term. For a bankruptcy judge not to be reappointed (although possible under the law) is, as far as I know, without parallel.
Islaw was a hot story once, and I'm sure someone made out in some interesting way, but software tinfoil has a very short shelf-life. I wish it did have a short life, but alas, this one does not. The word "Promis" has become a Magic Word in the tinfoil community. This is primitive database software written for PDP-11's in the 1970's (and subsequently ported to many other minicomputer-class machines, now all extinct) that supposedly, in the hands of the intelligence agencies, has become a state-of-the-art Knows All Sees All piece of Internet-aware spyware that can peer into foreign banks and track the movements of bad guys. Horsefeathers. It's a fill-in-the-blanks, field oriented, application generator. It's like Microsoft Access, except with the feature set of a 1970's ASCII-tube interface, and a flat file system instead of a relational database. My humble opinion is that all articles about PROMIS that allege use after about 1990 belong in the Art Bell Wing of the Interesting Theories Museum. |
Depends. Are Hamilton's and Inslaw's retainer checks still clearing the bank? If so, there's your motive for Gray to take the case.
Right. Sure.
Hanssen got two megabucks for a copy of PROMIS? Damn, I've got some "classified military simulations" (copies of Microprose's Red Storm Rising and F-19 Stealth Fighter for the Commodore 64) to peddle :o)
You bet.
The first link is the www.archive.org archive of the thread as it is no longer activated on FR. Many of the links within that thread no longer work also. But many of the links can be found via Google or www.archive.org.
THE OCTOPUS - The Tentacles Of Corruption
PAUL WILCHER - The Deadly Pursuit Of The Truth
The Murder of Attorney Paul Wilcher
INSLAW: Affidavit of Richard Babayan
BACK DOOR MEN - Outlaws and Inslaw
The Last Circle and Chapter 5 - "Danny Casolaro's body was found at 12:30 p.m. in a bloodfilled bath tub"
OUT-SOURCING BIG BROTHER - Systematics - Alltel - Acxiom - Jackson Stephens
Bin Laden and Promis Software - Fox News
Software Likely In Hands of Terrorist (Promis/Inslaw) - Washington Times
TALE OF SPIES AND CONSPIRACIES [INSLAW and PROMIS return to the news]
PROMIS Spins Web of Intrigue ~~ (Part IV of IV)
Part III
Part II
Part I
A PROMIS Software---Filegate Connection?
Clinton's Still Haunted By FBI Files Scandal
U.S. Government Flunks Computer Security Tests
"The U.S. government has earned failing marks for computer security for the second year in a row, according to a report released today by a congressional oversight committee.
More than half of 24 major federal agencies flunked the latest "computer security report card," according to a House Government Reform subcommittee. The Justice, Defense, Energy and Treasury departments earned failing grades; the Department of Transportation received the lowest score."
Here is a list of what grades the GAO assigned to the agencies:
B-minus: Social Security Administration
C-plus: Labor Dept.
C: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
D-plus: Commerce Dept., NASA
D: Education Dept., General Services Administration
D-minus: Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Dept. of Health and Human Services
F: Depts. of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Justice, State, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Treasury and Veterans' Administration. Also, U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of Personnel Management, Small Business Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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