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SUBJECT: FEDERAL CORRUPTION FILE: UFO2771
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PART 4
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Filename: Harry4.Art
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Type : Article
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Author : Harry Martin
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Date : 03/29/91
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Desc : Federal Corruption Series Part IV
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BANKRUPTCY COURT EXAMINES SOFTWARE ALLEGATIONS
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AGAINST JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PIRATING
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By Harry V. Martin
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Fourth in a NEW SERIES
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(c) Copyright Napa Sentinel
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March 29, 1991
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Reprinted with permission of the Napa Sentinel
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If you own a VCR or rent or buy movies, you will be familiar with the
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warning that appears on your screen that the film you are viewing is
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protected by a copyright and that the Federal Bureau of Investigations
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or Interpol can arrest you for copying the film. The warning is to
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prevent "pirating" of someone else's copyrighted material.
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But what's good for the goose is not always good for the gander. The
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United States Justice Department stands accused of pirating copyrighted
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material--having supplied it to the Canadian government, the Israeli
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government and Iraqi government . . . and to the FBI, itself.
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That is how deep the INSLAW computer software case has become. The
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case started out when the Justice Department bought PROMIS, a
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copyrighted software program that helps to track criminal cases
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throughout the United States. When friends and associates of then
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Attorney General Edwin Meese attempted to buy the software company,
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INSLAW turned them down and then life was made miserable for INSLAW.
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Within 90 days the Justice Department reneged on their contract with
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INSLAW and refused to pay for the software program, even though it was
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using it. The Justice Department is accused by federal judges of
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attempting to bankrupt INSLAW and then hasten the bankruptcy court to
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declare them insolvent. Instead, the courts ruled that the Justice
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Department used "fraud, deceit and trickery" against INSLAW and awarded
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the small computer software company $6.8 million in damages.
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The case became deeper when friends of Meese began to sell the
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program to foreign military establishments and the Justice Department
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began to provide the copyrighted material to other U.S. government
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agencies. A man who was once fired from INSLAW was put in charge of
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INSLAW's payments--which were never forthcoming. Another Justice
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Department official, who is now a Federal Judge in Northern California,
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was a direct competitor to INSLAW in California. The Judge who made the
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$6.8 million ruling lost his job. The attorney for the Justice
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Department who fought against the Judge's ruling was promoted to the
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Judge's vacant position. There have been wholesale changes and firings
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at the Justice Department over the INSLAW case.
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The Justice Department is now under investigation by a House
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subcommittee and this committee is receiving many documents to support
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the premise that the Justice Department has a skeleton in its closet
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that stinks greater than Watergate.
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But new documents emerging in the case demonstrate a wider scandal.
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In an affidavit dated February 17, 1991, Ari Ben-Menashe describes his
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12 year service for the Government of Israel in foreign intelligence
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and provides an eyewitness account of a presentation to an Israeli
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intelligence agency in 1987 in Tel Aviv, by Earl W. Brian of the United
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States.
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Brian is a close associate of Meese from his California days. Brian
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and Meese were both in Ronald Reagan's California Cabinet when Reagan
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was governor.
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According to Ben-Menashe's affidavit, Brian stated in his presence
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that he had acquired the property rights to the PROMIS computer
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software and that as of 1987 "all U.S. intelligence agencies, including
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the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and
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the National Security Agency, were using the PROMIS computer software."
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Ben-Menashe further states in his affidavit that Brian consummated a
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sale of the PROMIS computer software to the Government of Israel in
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1987.
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He further claimed that Brian also sold the PROMIS computer software
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to Iraqi Military Intelligence. According to Ben-Menashe's affidavit,
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the Israeli intelligence officer learned of this sale from an
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eyewitness who helped Brian broker the sale in his office in Santiago,
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Chile--Carlos Carduen of Carduen Industries. Carduen has been a major
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supplier to the Government of Iraq with weapons and munitions.
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The Federal Government of Canada has admitted that INSLAW's PROMIS
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software is currently operating in at least two federal departments,
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including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Mounties are using the
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program in 900 locations in Canada.
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INSLAW never sold its software to Canada, Iraq, Israel, the Central
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Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency. It also has not
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been paid by the Justice Department for its use, despite the $6.8
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million ruling in INSLAW's favor.
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The Justice Department insists that the FBI is not using the PROMIS
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program. Yet FBI Director William Sessions and Deputy Assistant
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Director Kier Boyd, have made it clear that the FBI now is unable or
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unwilling to provide assurances that pirated software is not included
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in the case management information system used by FBI field offices.
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And in a startling development, a man named Charles Hayes has
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asserted that the U.S. government has pirated the PROMIS computer
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program. The Justice Department has sued Hayes in the U.S. District
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Court in Lexington, Kentucky, seeking to compel him to return copies of
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computer software left on equipment Hayes' salvage business purchased
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from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Lexington. Hayes has publicly
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claimed that the salvaged equipment contained pirated copies of
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INSLAW's PROMIS software.
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One cover-up begets another cover-up? This is how Watergate spread.
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