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DID SADDAM HUSSEIN and Osama bin Laden have access to a U.S. computer tracking program that enabled them to monitor our intelligence-gathering efforts and financial transactions? If so, who is responsible for allowing the program to fall into their hands? And who else among America's enemies might have access to the tracking system? It's an explosive spy software scandal that no one in official Washington wants to investigate. This complex, tangled story began two decades ago, when a tiny private company called Inslaw Inc. developed a software package to help U.S. attorneys' offices in large urban districts keep tabs on...

Did Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden have access to a U.S. computer tracking program that enabled them to monitor our intelligence-gathering efforts and financial transactions? If so, who is responsible for allowing the program to fall into their hands? And who else among America's enemies might have access to the tracking system? It's an explosive spy software scandal that no one in official Washington wants to investigate. This complex, tangled story began two decades ago, when a tiny private company called Inslaw Inc. developed a software package to help U.S. attorneys' offices in large urban districts keep tabs on...

From Matt Drudge:  RIDDLE AS SPY-CATCHER QUITS: America's top spy-catcher, Paul Redmond, has suddenly resigned in the middle of his secret investigation into how Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden allegedly obtained [Promis] US computer software... Developing...Redmond's Bad Day On The Hill... 

America's top spy-catcher, Paul Redmond, has suddenly resigned in the middle of his secret investigation into how Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden allegedly obtained [Promis] US computer software... Developing...

A Top Intelligence Post Goes to C.I.A. Officer in Spy CaseBy JAMES RISEN ASHINGTON, March 13 — The C.I.A. officer who led the team that caught the Soviet mole Aldrich H. Ames is coming out of retirement to take charge of intelligence at the new Department of Homeland Security. The officer, Paul Redmond, the former chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, has been named assistant secretary of homeland security for information analysis, the White House announced today. The appointment ends months of speculation in Washington about who would take charge of the newly created — and highly sensitive...