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aliases: []
category: "PROMIS Scandal"
tags:
- Person
- PROMIS
- CIA
- DoJ
- Lawyer
- INSLAW
summary: "Garnett Taylor was a former security officer at the DOJ."
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Garnett Taylor was a former security officer at the [[United States Department of Justice|DOJ]]. He was identified by [[Lois Battistoni]] and an unnamed senior U.S. Government official (according to [[Bill Hamilton]]) as having information about the [[PROMIS Software Scandal|Inslaw matter]]. Specifically, Hamilton's source alleged that Taylor knew about the destruction of a number of [[INSLAW|Inslaw]] documents by the Justice Department's Office of Security.[^1]
Garnett Taylor was a former security officer at the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]]. He was identified by [[Lois Battistoni]] and an unnamed senior U.S. Government official (according to [[Bill Hamilton]]) as having information about the [[PROMIS Software Scandal|Inslaw matter]]. Specifically, Hamilton's source alleged that Taylor knew about the destruction of a number of [[INSLAW|Inslaw]] documents by the Justice Department's Office of Security.[^1]
Taylor supervised by [[James Walker]], Chief Security Specialist with the Justice Management Division, for approximately one year before being transferred to Personnel Security. As a control officer, Taylor was responsible for shredding classified documents once a determination was made that they need not be retained. However, he did not review classified files of departing DOJ attorneys to determine retention or shredding; rather, the attorney themselves would make that determination.[^1]
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### Footnotes
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.* March 1993. (Hereafter, "Bua Report")
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.* March 1993.