An October 16 FOX News report by correspondent Carl Cameron
indicating that convicted spy, former FBI Agent Robert Hanssen, had provided
a highly secret computer software program called Promis to Russian organized
crime figures - who in turn reportedly sold it to Osama bin Laden - may
signal a potential intelligence disaster for the United States. Admissions
by the FBI and Justice in the FOX story that they have discontinued use
of the software are most certainly a legal disaster for a government that
has been engaged in a 16-year battle with the software's creator, William
Hamilton, CEO of the Inslaw Corporation. Over those 16 years, in response
to lawsuits filed by Hamilton charging that the government had stolen the
software from Inslaw, the FBI, the CIA and the Department of Justice have
denied, in court and under oath, ever using the software.
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