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SUBJECT: FEDERAL CORRUPTION FILE: UFO2770
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PART 3
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Filename: Harry3.Art
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Type : Article
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Author : Harry Martin
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Date : 03/22/91
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Desc : Federal Corruption Series Part III
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BANKRUPTCY, JUSTICE SCANDAL COULD EQUAL WATERGATE
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By Harry V. Martin
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Third in a NEW SERIES
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(c) Copyright Napa Sentinel
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March 22, 1991
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Reprinted with permission of the Napa Sentinel
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As if things weren't getting hot enough for the federal bankruptcy
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court system, but now the INSLAW case is becoming another Watergate.
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INSLAW was a Washington, D.C.-based computer firm that sold a highly
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technical tracking software program to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Federal judges have upheld INSLAW's contention that the Justice
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Department, under Attorney General Edwin Meese, stole INSLAW's computer
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program.
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A bankruptcy judge that made the ruling was not re-appointed to a 14-
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year term. Several Justice Department officials have since been fired
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or quit over the case.
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Now a U.S. House Subcommittee is investigating the case and putting a
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lot of heat on the Justice Department. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh
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has been placed in an awkward position because of the case. Though he
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was not Attorney General at the time the INSLAW scandal broke, he was
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the man who investigated it and cleared the Justice Department of wrong
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doing.
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Testimony has come forward that the Justice Department, under Meese,
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pressured the bankruptcy courts to declare INSLAW insolvent, forcing
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the company to release its assets--including the critical software.
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INSLAW was once threatened if it didn't sell its company to a close
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Meese associate. After the threat, INSLAW's life was made miserable by
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the Justice Department. When INSLAW sued the Justice Department it was
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awarded $6.8 million. The judge who made the award was fired and
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replaced with a newly appointed judge--the man who prosecuted the case
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for the Justice Department. A second judge upheld the first judge's
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ruling.
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The House subcommittee is accusing Thornburgh of stonewalling the
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Committee's request for hundreds of documents involved in the INSLAW
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case. Two years ago, the same stalling tactics by the Attorney
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General's office played havoc with a Senate investigation of the same
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problem. But Texas Congressman Jack Brooks is putting the heat on the
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Justice Department to turn over its records on INSLAW-- Brook's
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committee controls the purse strings of the Justice Department and has
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more clout than did the Senate Committee.
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The protected software has been pirated to the Canadian government.
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Those who were found responsible for the pirating were close associates
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of Meese. "No sooner had the piracy been confirmed in Canada than an
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Israeli intelligence officer alleged that PROMIS (INSLAW's software
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program) was being used illegally by the CIA and other U.S.
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intelligence agencies," states James J. Kilpatrick in the March 15
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edition of "The Miami Herald."
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After the re-appointment of the federal bankruptcy judge was halted
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because of his ruling on the INSLAW case, almost every bankruptcy judge
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that is handed the case declines to have anything to do with it.
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"Nobody wants to touch the case," states Chief District Judge Aubrey
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Robinson.
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According to Brooks, the Justice Department is now ready to turn over
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the documents, states the "Legal Times" of Washington, D.C. The scandal
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touches many high officials in the Justice Department or formerly
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associated with the Department. They include:
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* Edwin Meese, former Attorney General.
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* Attorney General Richard Thornburgh.
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* U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens.
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* Justice Department Watchdog Michael Sheheen, Jr.
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* Gerald McDowell, chief of the Criminal Division's Public Integrity
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Section.
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* Lawrence McWhorter, head of the Executive Office of the U.S.
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Attorney's Criminal Division.
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* Bankruptcy Judge Cornelius Blackshear.
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* North District of California Federal District Judge D. Lowell
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Jensen, who was a former Deputy Attorney General and once chief
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competitor to INSLAW in California.
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The Brooks Committee has also learned that the Justice Department's
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computer system is "all botched up" and has also learned that there is
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a lot of sensitive data within the Department of Justice computer files
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that is not secure. The INSLAW program was to organize everything and
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track cases all over the country.
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The Justice Department is the prime law enforcement agency in the
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United States. A scandal there could rock the nation in a similar
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fashion as Watergate did during the Nixon Administration.
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The Justice Department oversees the Federal Bankruptcy Court and the
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Trustee system. The Justice Department is investigating the Federal
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Bankruptcy Court and the Trustee System. The Justice Department has
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been caught using the Bankruptcy System for their own interest. In
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other words, the Justice Department is investigating the Justice
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Department's Bankruptcy System for potential wrongdoings by the Justice
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Department.
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But is there really justice in this land?
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