20 MORE "BODIES
THAT DO NOT MATTER" to Hillary.
If you aren't
familiar with the Inslaw case, it goes back to Reagan and is about the
government stealing computer software from a couple.
Very scary and
confusing. No idea why they didn't just obtain
it honestly.
17 – Danny
Casolaro
Danny Casolaro was an investigative reporter who was
Investigating the Mean Airport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He
slit his wrists, apparently, in the middle of his investigation.
Casolaro’s body was found at 12:30 p.m., August 10, 1991, in a
blood-filled bath tub by a hotel maid who called
the Martinsburg, West Virginia, police. The body contained three deep cuts on
the right wrist and seven on the left wrist, made by a single edge razor
blade.
A freelance writer who was found dead with his wrists
slashed in a hotel room in Martinsburg, W.Va., a week ago was buried near here
today amid uncertainty about the cause of death and evidence that he was
working on an article about a major Government conspiracy.
The body of Joseph Daniel Casolaro, 44 years old of Fairfax City, Va.,
was discovered by West Virginia
authorities on Saturday in what was tentatively ruled a
suicide.
Mr. Casolaro’s family and friends said he had told them
he was going to Martinsburg to meet a source for the story he had been working
on for more than a year.
The case has been in the courts for nearly a decade and
Mr. Casolaro’s brother, Dr. Anthony Casolaro of Arlington, Va., has told
reporters he believed his brother may have been close to uncovering a major
conspiracy in connection with the Inslaw case. He said in an interview today that his brother had
told him in the last two months that if he died in an accident, “don’t believe
it.”
Dr. Casolaro said he was very skeptical that his brother
committed suicide for several reasons, including the facts that his brother
had recently received numerous death threats and that none of his notes on the
case were found with his body.
A finding of suicide was made by Dr. James Frost, West
Virginia’s deputy medical examiner, but he said he could not rule out foul
play.
The Inslaw Scandal
A provocative analysis of the mysterious
death of journalist Danny Casolaro discusses the link between the death and
high-level government conspiracy involving the Iran-Contra affair, the October
Surprise, BCCI, and other political scandals and cover-ups. (Feral House, Feb.
1997. Order it through Amazon.com)
During the Clinton administration, allegations of politicization have been raised against the Justice Department. Concerns have been raised that the Justice Department, mainly through Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell (now resigned and convicted for fraud), has been, and still is used as an instrument for political purposes. During previous administrations, the Justice Department was accused of being controlled by arrogant bureaucrats who considered themselves above the law.
Probably the most glaring example of the latter is the Inslaw scandal
that started in 1982, but is still covered up to this date according to
several key players as well as Congressional aides.
Inslaw Inc. is a computer software company based in Washington, DC,
owned by William and Nancy Hamilton. Inslaw markets case management software
to courts and related justice agencies, to the insurance industry, to large
law firms, and to the law departments of corporations. Inslaw's principal
asset is a highly sophisticated software program called PROMIS, a computer
program which manages large amounts of information
A Justice Department Above the
Law
In 1982, Inslaw won a contract with the
Department of Justice to install PROMIS in U.S. attorney's offices. The person
assigned by the Department to manage the contract, however, was one C. Madison
Brewer, who had just been fired by Inslaw. Just one month after the contract
was signed, Mr. Brewer recommended that it be terminated even though Inslaw
was performing as agreed. The Department stole the software because it felt
that it was above private property law.
The
Justice Department withheld payment for the software, and Inslaw went into
bankruptcy. Inslaw hired former Attorney General Elliot Richardson as their
attorney. Richardson filed a civil suit claiming that Inslaw had been the
victim of a conspiracy by the Justice Department.
In
1987, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge George Bason ruled in favor of Inslaw and awarded
Hamilton $6.8 million, saying that Justice Department officials "took,
converted and stole" PROMIS through "trickery, fraud and deceit." Judge Bason
lived to regret his ruling when his reappointment was denied in a highly
unusual move. Bason was replaced with one of the Justice Department lawyers
who had argued the Inslaw case.
The
Inslaw case had now reached the level of a full government conspiracy.
The
Octopus
Investigative Reporter Danny Casolaro was
investigating possible links between BCCI, Iran-Contra, and Inslaw. He called
the covert operation, in which the CIA was involved, "The Octopus."
The
Justice Department started sharing the illegally obtained PROMIS software with
other agencies, including intelligence agencies where PROMIS was modified for
intelligence purposes and sold to foreign intelligence operations in Israel,
Jordan, and other places. Michael Risconsciuto of the Wakenhut security firm
has testified that he was contracted to install a "trap door" in the software
to allow the CIA to tap into PROMIS software worldwide. It appears that the
original petty crimes of the Justice Department have led to the exposure of a
sensitive national security operation.
As
Casolaro continued his investigation he started to receive death threats. He
told his brother, "if there was an accident and he died, not to believe it."
On August 11, 1991, Casolaro was found dead in the bathtub of a hotel room in
Martinsburg, Virginia, where he had a meeting with a U.S. Army Special Forces
covert intelligence officer.
Following the death of Casolaro, Inslaw Attorney Elliot Richardson
called for an investigation. "It's hard to come up with any reason for his
death, other than he was deliberately murdered because he was so close to
uncovering sinister elements of what he called "The Octopus," Richardson said.
A Full Government
Conspiracy
After several appeals, Judge Bason's ruling
was finally reversed on technical jurisdictional grounds in 1991. The Senate
started investigating the Inslaw scandal and found even more troubling
information: its investigation was hampered by an unwillingness by Justice
Department officials to cooperate, and because key documents were reported
missing or lost by the Department.
According to sworn testimony before the Committee, high level Justice
Department officials conspired to steal the PROMIS software and secretly
convert it to use by domestic and foreign intelligence services.
Ronald LeGrand, Chief Investigator for the for the Senate Judiciary
Committee told Hamilton and Richardson that a trusted Justice Department
source had confided that Inslaw "was a lot dirtier for the Department of
Justice than Watergate had been, both in its breath and depth."
After several Congressional investigations
concluded wrongdoing by the Justice Department and called for the appointment
of a special prosecutor, Attorney General William Barr in 1992 appointed
lawyer Nicholas Bua to investigate the Inslaw scandal. Bua impaneled a grand
jury, but dismissed it midway through the investigation, allegedly because it
was giving credence to the allegations and constituted a "runaway" grand jury.
In
June 1993 the Bua report was released. It cleared Justice officials of any
wrong doing in the case.
Inslaw Attorney Elliot Richardson issued a statement saying, "What I
have seen of [the report] is remarkable both for its credulity in accepting at
face value denials of complicity in wrongdoing against Inslaw and for its
failure to pursue leads making those denials implausible."
On
July 12, 1993 Inslaw submitted a 90-page rebuttal of the Bua report to
Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell. The rebuttal offered evidence that
the Bua report was false. What Inslaw probably did not know at time, however,
was that Webster Hubbell's and White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster
apparently were linked to both Iran-Contra and Inslaw through two Arkansas
companies called Park-on-Meter and Systematics.
On
July 20, 1993 Vince Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park. Three days
later, attorney Paul Wilcher, allegedly investigating "The Octopus" was found
dead.
Starr Probing Links
to Inslaw Murder
Foster's ties to the
National Security Acency
Mr. Norman sheds
light on what is really behind the death of Vince Foster
Jim Norman Responds
to Claims by Sarah McClendon
Open Letter to the
Editor
Well worth the Money
Congress Finally Acts on
Inslaw
After Inslaw owner Bill Hamilton distributed a
report on the Inslaw scandal to each member of
the House Judiciary Committee, Congressmen Jack Brooks (D-TX) and Charlie Rose (D-NC) tried to enact a bill that
would force an investigation of the Justice Department and the death of Danny
Casolaro, and pay reparations to the owners of Inslaw. Among the allegations
in the bill:
The following criminal statutes may have been
violated by certain high level Justice officials and private individuals:
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
371--Conspiracy to commit an offense.
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
654--Officer or employee of the United States converting the property of
another.
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
1341--Fraud.
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
1343--Wire fraud.
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
1505--Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies and committees.
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
1512--Tampering with a witness.
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
1513--Retaliation against a witness.
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
1621--Perjury.
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
1951--Interference with commerce by threats or violence (RICO).
`18 U.S.C. Sec. 1961
et seq: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations.
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
2314--Transportation of stolen goods, securities, moneys.
`18 U.S.C. Sec.
2315--Receiving stolen goods.
The bill, H.R. 4862 was introduced in the House on July
29, 1994, but died without any action by the Democratic leadership in the
waning days of the 103rd Congress.
Under the new Republican leadership, Senator Orrin Hatch introduced a
similar bill, S. 740. On May 3, 1995, the Senate voted to commit the bill, which would pay
reparations to the owners of Inslaw, to the chief judge of the United States
Court of Federal Claims for a report thereon.
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