Jay Fenello
Re: Follow up regarding missed items on Fox Report
Thu Oct 18 18:24:20 2001


FYI:


At 10/18/01 02:53 PM, Marc Hamilton wrote:
 Jay. Please feel free to post this to AWPD.
 
 
 details left out of report PLEASE NOTE both items have not been
 substantiated and might be construed as hearsay or second hand knowledge.
 
 1. FOX reporter Carl Cameron was told by *** insiders that bin Laden had
 clear and precise knowledge vis-à-vis the wherabouts of GWB, DC, Haster
 and others in the line of succession on Sept 11 and that he was able to
 track them using the PROMIS software. bin Laden also may have compromised
 numerous government websites up to and including 11 September.
 
 2. The information to FOX for the story was apparently leaked by people
 inside the *** who had intimate knowledge
 of Hanssen's briefing on his involvement in the transfer of PROMIS to his
 Russian handlers. The *** insiders might very well be the people who
 debriefed Hanssen and upon learning of the scope of his crime via the
 PROMIS theft felt compelled to get the story out through back channels.
 
 Please don t print or post Bill Hamilton s address, phone number, email or
 web address. Feel free to use my name but please omit my email and phone
 number. And if you use either item 1 or item 2 please note that I heard
 this second hand and that it was not corroborated with any other source.
 
 I will be happy to continue to share information regarding this story as
 it becomes available. Please be advised that there are some very bad
 people who have been involved with this story and who have tried very hard
 to make it go away.
 
 Regards,
 
 
 Marc Hamilton
 God Bless America


At 10/18/01 12:45 AM, Marc Hamilton wrote:
 Jay, here is the transcript for the FOXNEWS broadcast last evening (WED
 OCT 16, 2001).
 
 Regards,
 
 
 Marc Hamilton
 Saint Louis, MO
 God Bless America
 
 
 
 FOX SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRIT HUME
 
 
 
 Date: October 16, 2001
 
 Time: 18:00
 Tran: 101601cb.254
 Type: Show
 Head: Political Headlines
 Sect: News; Domestic
 Byline: Brit Hume, Bret Baier, Carl Cameron, Brian Wilson, Jim Angle
 Spec: Terrorism; Military; Afghanistan; Diseases; Government; World Affairs
  BRIT HUME, FOX ANCHOR: Welcome to Washington. I'm Brit
  Hume. The Pentagon now says the Taliban has been, in effect, gutted as a
  fighting force, as the war over Afghanistan has clearly entered a new
  phase. The bombing over the last 24 hours has been up close and
  powerful, with lethal weapons not previously used, brought into play.
 
  . . .
 
 
 EXCERPT
 
 
  . . .
  HUME: All right, Bret, thanks very much.
 
  There's now a disturbing indication that Robert Hanssen,
  the FBI man accused of spying for the Russians in what officials said at
  the time of his arrest was a massive security breach, ended up helping
  Osama bin Laden.
 
  As correspondent Carl Cameron reports, Hanssen sold the
  Russians an extremely sensitive piece of U.S. technology, and the
  indications are that they, in turn, sold it to bin Laden's Al Qaeda
  terrorist network -- Car.
 
  (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
 
  CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT
 
 (voice-over): Fox News has learned that government officials suspect
 Osama bin Laden may have highly sophisticated U.S. government software,
 that has been used by several governments, including the United States,
 for classified intelligence and law enforcement information.
 
  Bin Laden allegedly purchased it from Russian sources,
  after Russia got it from convicted spy and former FBI agent Robert
  Hanssen, who was nabbed earlier this year.
 
  Hanssen lived in a quiet Virginia neighborhood outside
  Washington until his arrest. Sources say to avoid the death penalty, for
  what some have described as the worst U.S. intelligence breach in
  decades, he confessed to giving Russia vast amounts of information,
  including, sources say, a software program developed by the Inslaw
  company in Washington.
 
  The software program is called Promis. Sources tell Fox
  that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies have used and
  constantly modified Promis software to manage caseloads, track and store
  classified information, and keep it secure for decades.
 
  But the concern is that bin Laden or Al Qaeda could get
  on-line and use it to monitor the worldwide criminal investigation and
  hide themselves, to monitor the worldwide financial investigation and
  hide their money, or monitor government operations of the governments
  that use the software.
 
  As a senior agent in the FBI's counterterrorism bureau,
  sources say Hanssen was tasked with helping allies like Germany and
  England with the installation and use of their versions of the Promis
  program. Numerous countries now, however, are tightening their cyber
  security. Germany stopped using Promis software just last week. Great
  Britain began closing it down just a few months ago. Canada has actually
  investigated potential tampering with its Promis programs, and Israel has
  used it on and off for years, too.
 
  (END VIDEOTAPE)
 
  CAMERON: And the United States has been constantly
  updating the encryption and coding of its software for a number of
  months. And after the Hanssen case, the FBI, the Justice Department and
  various different intelligence operations all say, Brit, that they took a
  wide array of steps in order to improve the security of the information.
 
  It's interesting to note that shortly after the attacks,
  when the U.S. crackdown on bin Laden's finances began, bin Laden in
  Afghanistan granted an interview to a near eastern journalist, and he was
  talking about the efforts to freeze his money. And he said -- quote --
  "Al Qaeda's youths are highly educated and are as aware of the cracks in
  the financial and the computer systems of the world as they are in the
  lines in their hands."
 
  HUME: What does that mean?
 
  CAMERON: Well, it means that bin Laden is believed to
  have access to his money, even with the international effort to freeze
  it. And as for U.S. intelligence information, all we can get from the
  U.S. government is that they are no longer using Promis software. But
  they won't not say exactly when they stopped it, though it's presumed,
  right after the Hanssen case.
 
  HUME: Well, in order for al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden to
  do anything with this software, they have to have some sort of an
  Internet connection, and they have to be able to hack their way into U.S.
  government and other databases, in order to get contemporary data for the
  software to be of any value, correct?
 
  CAMERON: So as soon as the U.S. government stopped
  using Promis, presumably, that made it virtually impenetrable by bin
  Laden. But the idea that he would be in a cave and not able to log on
  doesn't necessarily apply, because we know that there are al Qaeda
  operatives around the world who could log on.
 
  HUME: All right, Carl. Thanks very much.
 
  . . . .
 
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 litigation.
 
 
 William A. Hamilton
 President
 INSLAW, Inc.


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