One journalist, Danny Casolaro, died as he attempted to tell the story (see sidebar), and boxes of documents relating to the case have been destroyed, stolen, or conveniently "lost" by the Department of Justice.īut so far, not a single person has been held accountable. The committee's call for an independent counsel have fallen on deaf ears. Ben Orr left the DOJ on May 6, 1983, with a computer tape containing PROMIS tucked under his arm.Ī House Judiciary Committee report released last September found evidence raising "serious concerns" that high officials at the Department of Justice executed a pre-meditated plan to destroy Inslaw and co-opt the rights to its PROMIS software. Department of Justice documents record that one Dr. The Department of Justice sent him over for a look at the property they were about to "misappropriate," and Etian liked what he saw. Orr, it was of Rafael Etian, chief of the Israeli defense force's anti-terrorism intelligence unit. But for Hamilton, who has fought the Department of Justice (DOJ) for almost 10 years in an effort to salvage his business, once his co- workers recognized the man in the second photo, it all made perfect sense.įor the second photo was not of the mysterious Dr. Orr never came back, and he never bought anything. "He fell in love with the VAX version," Hamilton recalled.ĭr. Orr was impressed with the power of PROMIS (Prosecutors Management Information Systems), which had recently been updated by Inslaw to run on powerful 32-bit VAX computers from Digital Equipment Corp. At the time of his visit, Orr claimed to be a public prosecutor from Israel.
Hamilton, who knew the purpose of the line-up, identified the visitor as Dr.
In a separate line up, Hamilton's secretary singled out the same photo.īoth said the man had visited Inslaw in February 1983 for a presentation of PROMIS, Inslaw's bread-and-butter legal software. Immediately he singled out the second photo. "Have you ever seen any of these men?" Merrill was asked. The two men studied six photographs laid out before them.
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