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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 30
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE WHITE HOUSE "BIG BROTHER" DATA BASE
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The White House "Big Brother" Data
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Base & How Jackson Stephens
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Precipitated a Banking Crisis
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by J. Orlin Grabbe
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Score another coup for Jackson Stephens'
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Systematics (Alltel Information Services). It provided the
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software for the White House's "Big Brother" data base
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system, and now the White House is in a panic that there
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may be secret methods of accessing its computer.
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The existence of the White House computer
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system and data base--known as WHODB, White House
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Office Data Base, and containing as many as 200,000
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names--was revealed by Paul Rodriguez in the *Washington
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Times*. Some of the information was developed by
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*Insight*'s Anthony Kimery, soon to be managing editor of
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the electronic publication *SOURCES eJournal*. Kimery is
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a writer whose articles in *The American Banker* and *Wired*
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were among the first to report U.S. government spying on
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domestic banking transactions. (Kimery was also fired
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from one magazine for looking into the death of Vince
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Foster.)
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Now things have come full circle. The chief
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government effort to spy on U.S. domestic banking
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transactions was directed by the electronic spy agency, the
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National Security Agency (NSA), working in connection
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with the Little Rock software firm Systematics.
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Systematics, half-owned by billionaire Jackson Stephens
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(of Stephens Inc. fame), has been a major supplier of
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software for back office clearing and wire transfers. It
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was Stephens' attempt to get Systematics the job of
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handling the data processing for the Washington-D.C.
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bank First American that lead to the BCCI takeover of that
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institution. Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster represented
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Systematics in that endeavor, and later Foster became an
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overseer of the NSA project with respect to Systematics.
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Working together, the NSA and Jackson Stephens'
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Systematics developed security holes in much of the
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banking software Systematics sold. Now we face a crisis
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in banking and financial institution security, according to
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John Deutch, Director of the CIA. "One obstacle is that
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banks and other private institutions have been reluctant to
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divulge any evidence of computer intrusions for fear that it
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will leak and erode the confidence of their customers.
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Deutch said 'the situation is improving' but that more
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cooperation was needed from major corporations, and said
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the CIA remains willing to share information with such
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firms about the risks they might face." (*The Washington
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Post*, June 26, 1996, page A19.)
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What Deutch failed to mention was that this
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"banking crisis" in large part was itself created by one of
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the U.S. intelligence agencies--the NSA in cahoots with
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Stephens' software firm Systematics. The Citibank heist
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by Russian hackers, for example, took advantage of a back
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door in Citibank's Systematics software. (The Russian
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hackers were apparently aided by the son of one of Jim
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Leach's House Banking Committee investigators.) Have
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any major banks thought of instituting lawsuits over this
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deliberate breach of security on the part of a software
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supplier?
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John Deutch has a proposed solution for this and
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other computer security problems: the creation of an
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"Information Warfare Technology Center". Guess where
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he wants to put the Center: in the National Security
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Agency itself, naturally. That is, the government wants
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money budgeted for a new bureaucracy to solve the
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problem another bureaucracy spent money creating. You
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have to admire the sheer chutzpah of this kind of con--one
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which would also leave the NSA fox guarding the banking
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chicken coop.
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Meanwhile, over at the White House, senior aides
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are in a panic. Is the WHODB system related to the
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PROMIS software? they want to know. Is there a back
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door into the system? Have files been download?
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It just goes to show that given the right incentive,
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even the White House will begin spouting conspiracy
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theories. Perhaps Charles O. Morgan (see part 2 of my
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Vince Foster series) should write the White House a
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threatening letter.
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