Thread by @RussellSieg

#INSLAWarchives
October 21, 1991 - A High-Tech Watergate

Eliot Richardson, AG in Nixon Admin and lawyer for INSLAW, lays out the case for a special prosecutor to be appointed.

Publicly states that new AG William Barr has assured him that he will address Richardson's concerns

Quite the saga Richardson lays out all in one long op-ed

AG Ed Meese's friend Dr. Earl Brian, a $250M DOJ contract to automate litigation divisions

Ursula's Biotech Capital Corp deal

30 people w/ serious accusations

AG Thornburgh does not act

under subpoena, Thornburgh produces many files but DOJ said volume containing key docs was missing

Ronald LeGrand, Senate Judiciary chief investigator, said INSLAW case was "a lot dirtier than Watergate had been, both its breadth & its depth"

Michael Riconosciuto's wild claims

Riconosciuto claimed Reagan DOJ stole INSLAW's PROMIS software as part of a payoff to Dr. Earl Brian for helping to get Iranian leaders to collude in the so-called October Surprise, the alleged plot by Reagan campaign in 1980

to conspire with Iranian agents to hold up release of American embassy hostages until after the election!!

Riconosciuto is currently in jail in Tacoma on drug charges, which he says are trumped up

add'l covert ops informants tell the INSLAW team that

scores of foreign gov'ts now have PROMIS.

Dr. Brian, these informants say, was given the chance to sell the software as reward for his services in the October Surprise

The reported sales allegedly had 2 aims: 1 was to generate revenue for covert ops not authorized by Congress

the 2nd was to supply foreign intel agencies with a software system that would make it easier for US eavesdroppers to read intercepted signals

Richardson: Danny Casolaro told friends that he had evidence linking INSLAW, the Iran-Contra affair and the October Surprise, and was going to WV to meet a source to receive the final piece of proof.

His briefcase was missing. I believe [Casolaro] was murdered.

Richardson ends by noting some interesting parallels between the early days of the Watergate scandal investigation and how the President's involvement in the crimes gradually became more apparent

He suggests the same is likely for the INSLAW affair

very interesting that AG Barr, of course, kept this scandal covered up and did NOT appoint a special prosecutor

does that imply the sinister implications of the case are true?