Posted on 01/31/2006 6:17:49 AM PST by Anne_Conn
The so called PROMIS affair would never have happened if the software invented by an American computer specialist, Mr. William A. Hamilton, had been a technical failure. But this case management and data mining software, developed in the early 1980s by a small Washington D.C. company, Inslaw Inc., had proven itself to be a perfect intelligence tool. Originally made for the Department of Justice to help the country’s prosecutor offices in their case management, it drew the attention of corrupt officials and of Israeli Intelligence. Stolen by ruse from its owner, Inslaw Inc., the software was hacked and provided with a "trap door", a sort of a Trojan Horse hacker’s trick, that enabled the retrieval of information from the foreign intelligence services and banks it had been sold to on behalf of Israeli and U.S. intelligence. Without the knowledge of the software’s owner, and in violation of copyright laws, the PROMIS software was sold to over 40 countries and used in an unprecedented "sting operation", which yielded huge financial and intelligence benefits to the United States and Israel.
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There are a lot of buried bodies in the California desert because of this. It got a lot of play here on FR in the late 90s.
I seem to remember the name Ed Meese as involved in some way.
There is no mention that I see in the article about Clinton, but I became aware of this (Inslaw) when a reporter who was investigating this ended up dead (Arkancide) in a nearby motel and local paper began reporting on his death.
I think there is some Vince Foster connection in this too.
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