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### Role in PROMIS Development
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In 1969, while serving as Deputy Chief of the Superior Court Division, Work co-directed the original [[PROMIS]] design team commissioned by U.S. Attorney [[Thomas A. Flannery]], alongside [[Joan E. Jacoby]] (Director of the [[Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia]]) and project manager [[Bill Hamilton]] (then a senior consultant at [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]]). The team produced the Prosecutor's Management Information System, deployed January 1, 1971, in the DC U.S. Attorney's Office. Work hired INSLAW to write the first version of PROMIS and maintained a close working relationship with Hamilton through the program's early years.[^3]
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In 1969, while serving as Deputy Chief of the Superior Court Division, Work co-directed the original [[PROMIS]] design team commissioned by U.S. Attorney [[Thomas A. Flannery]], alongside [[Joan E. Jacoby]] (Director of the [[Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia]]) and project manager [[Bill Hamilton]] (then a senior consultant at [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]]).[^3] The team produced the Prosecutor's Management Information System, deployed January 1, 1971, in the DC U.S. Attorney's Office.[^4] Work hired INSLAW to write the first version of PROMIS and maintained a close working relationship with Hamilton through the program's early years.[^3]
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A May 1971 overview of PROMIS prepared by Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co for the Office of Crime Analysis under LEAA grant 70-DF-047 records that the design team was headed by Joan E. Jacoby, director of the Office of Crime Analysis, and Work, deputy director of the Superior Court Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office.[^4] A 1985 White House announcement lists Work as Deputy Chief and Chief of the Superior Court Division from 1969 to 1973 and as Deputy Administrator of LEAA from 1973 to 1975, and a White House release of January 26, 1976 records that he resigned effective November 21, 1975.[^5] In April 1973 the executive director of the National District Attorneys Association described PROMIS as developed by Jacoby and Work, "assistant U.S. attorney," under a $290,000 LEAA grant.[^6]
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summary: "Frederick G. Watts was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team; no further biographical details have been identified."
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Frederick G. Watts was a member of the original 1969 team assembled to design the [[PROMIS|Prosecutor's Management Information System]], working under co-directors [[Joan E. Jacoby]] and [[Charles R. Work]] with project manager [[Bill Hamilton]] at [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]]. No additional biographical details have been identified.[^1]
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Frederick G. Watts was a member of the original 1969 team assembled to design the [[PROMIS|Prosecutor's Management Information System]], working under co-directors [[Joan E. Jacoby]] and [[Charles R. Work]].[^2] [[Bill Hamilton]] served as project manager at [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]].[^1] A May 1971 system overview lists Watts as chief of the Grand Jury Section of the Superior Court Division of the [[U.S. Attorney's office|U.S. Attorney's Office]].[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair: Investigative Report.* House Report 102-857, 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, September 10, 1992.
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[^2]: Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., *System Overview and Report Formats for PROMIS* (May 1971), prepared for the District of Columbia Government Office of Crime Analysis under LEAA Grant No. 70-DF-047, note 1 to the passage on the design team, NCJ 32469. https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/32469NCJRS.pdf
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title: George Hunter White
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summary: "George Hunter White was a Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent who operated the CIA's Operation Midnight Climax safe houses in San Francisco and New York City from 1955 to 1963, administering LSD to unwitting civilian subjects for Project MKULTRA while working under CIA contract."
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summary: "George Hunter White was a Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent who ran CIA safe houses of Operation Midnight Climax in San Francisco and New York, 1955 to 1963, dosing unwitting subjects with LSD for MKULTRA."
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location: "San Francisco, California"
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role: "Army lieutenant colonel attached to the OSS, counterespionage training and operations in India"
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George Hunter White (1908 - October 22, 1975) was a senior agent of the [[Federal Bureau of Narcotics]] who simultaneously operated as a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] contractor from the early 1950s through 1963, running [[Operation Midnight Climax]] - the CIA's program of administering [[LSD]] to unconsenting civilian subjects in safe houses in [[San Francisco]] and [[New York City]]. White managed these operations under the direction of [[Sidney Gottlieb]] of the CIA's [[Technical Services Division]] as part of [[Project MKUltra|MKULTRA]], the agency's classified behavioral research program. His personal diaries, discovered after his death during Freedom of Information Act research by journalist John Marks, provided the primary firsthand account of the Midnight Climax operations and are among the most revealing documents about MKULTRA's operational culture.[^1]
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During [[World War II]] White came from the Narcotics Bureau into the [[Office of Strategic Services]], where he joined the truth drug committee's testing program run under [[Stanley Lovell]] in cooperation with the [[Manhattan Project]]. After early tests with vaporized [[marijuana]] at [[St. Elizabeth's Hospital]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] proved insufficient, the group settled on cigarettes laced with marijuana essence. White conducted the first field test on May 27, 1943, dosing New York mobster [[August Del Gracio]] on the reasoning that a criminal would never report the experiment to the police or press. He later tested the technique on suspected Communist soldiers at camps near [[Atlanta]], [[Memphis]], and [[New Orleans]], on one occasion shooting his initials into the ceiling molding of his New Orleans hotel room with a .22 automatic. The Del Gracio logic, that society's marginal people make ideal unwitting subjects because they cannot safely complain, was the principle Gottlieb later built the safe house program around.[^3]
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### Testimony on the Luciano Parole
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In 1951 the Senate's Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce heard testimony from George H. White, who gave his name as George H. White (the index reads "White, Col. George H., narcotics agent, United States Treasury"), a supervising narcotic agent with seventeen years of service, four of them with the Army. He testified that during the war he was a lieutenant colonel in charge of counterespionage training and later operations in India and parts of the United States, on active duty and attached to the OSS. He testified that in May 1943, while on active Army duty, an intermediary named August Del Grazio came to him on behalf of two attorneys, George Wolf and [[Moses Polakoff]], and of [[Frank Costello]], who were seeking the release of [[Charles Luciano]] from prison. Del Grazio said that Luciano could arrange contacts for undercover American agents in Sicily, and White told him that parole was impossible but that any information would be passed to the military authorities.[^4]
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White also testified that a letter from Commander [[Charles R. Haffenden]] of Naval Intelligence in New York to Governor Dewey, stating that Luciano had been of great service to the Armed Forces, was part of the basis for the 1946 parole. He reported that the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and OSS had each categorically denied that Luciano furnished any information.[^5]
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### Recruitment by the CIA
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White was recruited to work with the CIA around 1950-1952, initially through the precursor programs Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke before MKULTRA was formally authorized. His recruitment reflected Gottlieb's judgment that the behavioral modification research needed an operational manager who could set up and run field operations rather than a scientist who could only conduct laboratory research. Gottlieb had found White's OSS truth-drug record while reviewing Lovell's old files in 1952, secured the approval of Narcotics Commissioner [[Harry Anslinger]], and made his pitch in New York; White's diary for June 9, 1952 records simply, "Gottlieb proposed I be a CIA consultant, I agree." White had previously been blackballed from the Agency by enemies who considered him "too rough," including New York Governor [[Thomas Dewey]] and Hoover. He was designated MKULTRA Subproject 3.[^3]
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[^1]: Marks, John. *The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control.* Times Books, 1979, Chapters 5-6 (primary account of Midnight Climax using surviving MKULTRA documents and White's diaries). Kinzer, Stephen. *Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.* Henry Holt and Company, 2019. "Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification." Senate Hearing, August 3, 1977.
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[^2]: White, George Hunter. Diaries, 1940s-1970s. Special Collections, Foothill College Library, Los Altos Hills, California.
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[^3]: John D. Marks, *The Search for the Manchurian Candidate*. Times Books, 1979, Chapters 1 and 6. The 1963 CIA Inspector General report allocated $10,000 a year to each of the two safe house cities "to cover cost of cultivation of targets and maintenance of a safehouse," and the Agency's auditors accepted canceled checks White cashed himself marked "Stormy" or "Undercover Agent."
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[^4]: U.S. Senate, *Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce*, Hearings before the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 7 (New York-New Jersey) (1951), testimony of George H. White, pp. 1180-1182. https://archive.org/details/investigationofo07unit
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[^5]: *Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce*, Part 7, testimony of George H. White, p. 1183 (Haffenden letter; Navy and OSS denials as stated by the witness).
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location: "Frankfurt, West Germany (born); San Francisco, California (base)"
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Peter Thiel (born October 11, 1967, in [[Frankfurt]], [[West Germany]]) is a German-born American billionaire investor and the central figure of the [[PayPal Mafia]], the informal network of founders and early executives of [[PayPal]] who went on to found or lead much of the subsequent generation of [[Silicon Valley]] companies. Thiel cofounded PayPal, founded the venture capital firm [[Founders Fund]], and cofounded and chairs the data-analytics and defense contractor [[Palantir Technologies]]. In 2006 he cofounded the secret society [[Dialog]] with [[Auren Hoffman]]. He is the most prominent documented financial patron of the neoreactionary philosopher [[Curtis Yarvin]], the founder of [[Neoreaction]] (NRx) and co-originator of the [[Dark Enlightenment]], and his political investments extended to funding the covert lawsuit that destroyed [[Gawker Media]] and bankrolling the U.S. Senate and subsequent vice-presidential campaigns of [[JD Vance]].[^1][^2][^3]
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Thiel cofounded the online payments company Confinity in 1998, which merged with [[Elon Musk]]'s X.com in 2000 to form PayPal, and Thiel served as chief executive through the company's 2002 initial public offering and acquisition by [[eBay]] for 1.5 billion dollars. The exit dispersed a cohort of founders and early engineers, each capitalised at levels that let them found the subsequent generation of consumer-internet companies, and the cohort acquired the label PayPal Mafia as a recognizable social and commercial network.[^1][^4]
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Thiel cofounded the online payments company Confinity in 1998, which merged with [[Elon Musk]]'s X.com in 2000 to form PayPal, and Thiel served as chief executive through the company's 2002 initial public offering and acquisition by [[eBay]] for 1.5 billion dollars. eBay's announcement of October 3, 2002, the day it completed the acquisition, states: "Peter Thiel announced today that he has resigned as PayPal's CEO," and that Matt Bannick, eBay's senior vice president for global online payments, would assume all of Thiel's responsibilities.[^27] The exit dispersed a cohort of founders and early engineers, each capitalised at levels that let them found the subsequent generation of consumer-internet companies, and the cohort acquired the label PayPal Mafia as a recognizable social and commercial network.[^1][^4]
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The PayPal Mafia included [[Max Levchin]] (CTO, later [[Affirm]]), [[Reid Hoffman]] (executive vice president, later [[LinkedIn]]), [[David Sacks]] (COO, later [[Yammer]] and the Trump administration crypto role), [[Ken Howery]] (CFO, later Trump-era ambassador to [[Sweden]]), [[Luke Nosek]] (founding team, later Founders Fund partner), [[Roelof Botha]] (CFO, later [[Sequoia Capital]] partner), [[Keith Rabois]] (executive, later Founders Fund and OpenStore), [[Jeremy Stoppelman]] (later [[Yelp]]), and the three YouTube cofounders [[Chad Hurley]], [[Steve Chen]], and [[Jawed Karim]]. Six members of the network appear on the leaked 2026 Dialog retreat roster, per *WIRED*. The network functions as a recurring capital and endorsement channel: PayPal Mafia founders sit on each other's boards, invest in each other's subsequent companies, and convene, through Dialog, in the same off-the-record setting.[^1][^4]
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[^24]: "Former FBI Special Agent Arrested for Disclosure of Confidential Information." *DOJ Office of Inspector General,* 2025. https://oig.justice.gov/news/press-release/former-fbi-special-agent-arrested-disclosure-confidential-information ; "FBI whistleblower claims he tried to get to Musk to warn him he was being targeted by Russia." *The Guardian,* May 22, 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/22/fbi-whistleblower-musk-russia
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[^25]: "What We Learned About Clearview AI's Hidden 'Co-Founder.'" *New York Times,* March 18, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/technology/clearview-facial-recognition-ai.html ; "Business Partner Sues Chuck Johnson for Falsely Presenting as Intelligence Agent." *Semafor,* October 16, 2024. https://www.semafor.com/article/10/16/2024/business-partner-sues-chuck-johnson-for-falsely-presenting-as-intelligence-agent
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[^26]: "Documents reveal how Peter Thiel was granted New Zealand citizenship." *The Guardian,* February 1, 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/01/documents-reveal-how-peter-thiel-was-granted-new-zealand-citizenship ; "New Zealand Is 'the Future,' Peter Thiel Said in His Push for Citizenship." *New York Times,* February 1, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/business/peter-thiel-new-zealand-citizenship.html
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[^27]: eBay Inc., "eBay Completes PayPal Acquisition," press release, San Jose, October 3, 2002, exhibit 99.1 to PayPal, Inc. Form 8-K filed October 4, 2002. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1103415/000091205702037693/a2090698zex-99_1.htm
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summary: "Richard Thornburgh (1932-2020) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991 under Presidents Reagan and Bush, succeeding Edwin Meese, and was named alongside Meese in the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW report as having blocked or restricted congressional inquiries into the PROMIS software theft, ignored two court findings against the DOJ, and refused to seek appointment of an independent counsel."
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summary: "Richard Thornburgh (1932-2020) was U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991, named with Edwin Meese in the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW report as having blocked congressional inquiries and refused an independent counsel."
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Richard Lewis Thornburgh was born July 16, 1932, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.S. in engineering from [[Yale University]] in 1954 and an LL.B. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1957. He served as [[United States Attorney]] for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1975, appointed by President Nixon, and as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division under President Ford from 1975 to 1977. He was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1978, serving two successive terms from January 16, 1979 to January 20, 1987 -- the first Republican to serve consecutive terms as Pennsylvania governor -- managing the March 1979 [[Three Mile Island]] nuclear incident during his first term. Richard Thornburgh died December 31, 2020, in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, at age 88.[^1]
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Richard Lewis Thornburgh was born July 16, 1932, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.S. in engineering from [[Yale University]] in 1954 and an LL.B. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1957. He served as [[United States Attorney]] for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1975, appointed by President Nixon, and as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division under President Ford from 1975 to 1977. He was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1978, serving two successive terms from January 16, 1979 to January 20, 1987, the first Republican to serve consecutive terms as Pennsylvania governor, managing the March 1979 [[Three Mile Island]] nuclear incident during his first term. Richard Thornburgh died December 31, 2020, in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, at age 88.[^1]
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The [[House Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary Committee]]'s September 1992 investigation (House Report 102-857) named both Meese and Thornburgh as the two Attorneys General who had "blocked or restricted congressional inquiries into the matter, ignored the findings of two courts and refused to ask for the appointment of an independent counsel" in connection with the alleged theft of [[INSLAW]]'s [[PROMIS]] software.[^2]
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The two court findings at issue were Bankruptcy Judge [[George Francis Bason Jr.]]'s 1987 ruling that the [[Department of Justice]] had stolen PROMIS from INSLAW "tainted by fraud, deceit and overreaching," and the District Court's 1988 affirmance of that ruling on appeal.
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The two court findings at issue were Bankruptcy Judge [[George Francis Bason Jr.]]'s 1987 ruling that the [[Department of Justice]] had stolen PROMIS from INSLAW "tainted by fraud, deceit and overreaching," and the District Court's 1989 affirmance of that ruling on appeal.[^5]
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Thornburgh declined to reverse Meese's May 1988 denial of [[Bill Hamilton]] and [[Nancy Hamilton|INSLAW]]'s petition for appointment of an independent counsel under the Ethics in Government Act. [[Elliott Richardson]], INSLAW's attorney and himself a former Attorney General, wrote Thornburgh directly requesting the appointment; Thornburgh did not respond. When the House Judiciary Committee requested Thornburgh's personal testimony on the matter, he declined to appear. When the committee issued subpoenas for hundreds of DOJ internal documents -- including documents from the files of DOJ counsel Sandra Spooner that the committee alleged had been "mysteriously disappeared" -- Thornburgh's DOJ failed to produce all subpoenaed documents, asserting some had been mislaid or accidentally destroyed and claiming the remainder were protected by litigation privilege as part of DOJ's ongoing civil dispute with INSLAW.[^2][^3]
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Thornburgh declined to reverse Meese's May 1988 denial of [[Bill Hamilton]] and [[Nancy Hamilton|INSLAW]]'s petition for appointment of an independent counsel under the Ethics in Government Act. [[Elliott Richardson]], INSLAW's attorney and himself a former Attorney General, wrote Thornburgh directly requesting the appointment; Thornburgh did not respond. When the House Judiciary Committee requested Thornburgh's personal testimony on the matter, he declined to appear. When the committee issued subpoenas for hundreds of DOJ internal documents (including documents from the files of DOJ counsel Sandra Spooner that the committee alleged had been "mysteriously disappeared"), Thornburgh's DOJ failed to produce all subpoenaed documents, asserting some had been mislaid or accidentally destroyed and claiming the remainder were protected by litigation privilege as part of DOJ's ongoing civil dispute with INSLAW.[^2][^3]
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[^3]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010.
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[^4]: Friedman, Alan. *Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq*. Bantam, 1993, pp. 183-189, 194, 198.
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[^5]: *United States v. INSLAW, Inc.*, 113 B.R. 802 (D.D.C. Nov. 22, 1989). https://cite.case.law/br/113/802/
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Roger Whelan was the bankruptcy judge who preceded [[George Francis Bason, Jr.|Judge Bason]] in the District of Columbia. He was appointed on February 8, 1984, and his term expired four years later.
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Roger Whelan was the bankruptcy judge who preceded [[George Francis Bason, Jr.|Judge Bason]] in the District of Columbia. He was the District of Columbia's only bankruptcy judge until he resigned; George F. Bason Jr. was appointed on February 8, 1984 to fill the vacancy.[^2]
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The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations staff study of 1989 spells the name Whalen and records that Bason "had been appointed in 1984, to fill the unexpired term of retiring Judge Roger Whalen."[^3] A House report records that Judge Robinson said Bason "inherited a mess (administratively) in the clerk's office" when he took over for Whalen.[^4]
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Whelan became involved in the controversy surrounding Judge Bason's non-reappointment. He was a practicing bankruptcy attorney and reportedly received complaints about Bason from several of his colleagues. These attorneys, according to Whelan, shared his view that Bason was pro-debtor and too slow in making decisions. Whelan reported these views to the Merit Selection Panel by telephone. The Special Counsel's investigation noted that Whelan's opposition to Bason's reappointment was significant, as it contributed to the perception that Judge Bason was a poor administrator. This perception, whether accurate or not, was made known to the Panel at least by Whelan and almost certainly by others.[^1]
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[^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.
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.* (March 1993), p. 155. https://archive.org/stream/InslawPROMISBuaReport/Inslaw%3APROMIS%20Bua%20Report_djvu.txt
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[^3]: U.S. Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, *Staff Study of Allegations Pertaining to the Department of Justice's Handling of a Contract with INSLAW, Inc.*, S. Prt. 101-58 (1989), p. 36 n.182. https://archive.org/details/StaffStudyOfAllegationsPertainingToTheDepartmentOfJusticesHandlingOfAContractWithInslaw
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[^4]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, *The INSLAW Affair: Investigative Report*, H. Rept. 102-857 (Sept. 10, 1992), p. 105 (section VIII.B). https://archive.org/stream/InslawAffairInvestigativeReport/TheInslawAffair_djvu.txt
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summary: "Stanley H. Turner held a doctorate and served as Assistant Director for Research and Analysis at the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia under Joan E. Jacoby, and was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team."
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summary: "Stanley H. Turner held a doctorate, was Assistant Director for Research and Analysis at the Office of Crime Analysis under Joan E. Jacoby, and belonged to the original 1969 PROMIS design team."
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Stanley H. Turner held a doctorate and served as Assistant Director for Research and Analysis at the [[Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia]] under [[Joan E. Jacoby]]. In that capacity, he was a member of the original 1969 team assembled to design the [[PROMIS|Prosecutor's Management Information System]], working with co-directors [[Joan E. Jacoby]] and [[Charles R. Work]] and project manager [[Bill Hamilton]] at [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]].[^1]
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Stanley H. Turner held a doctorate and served as Assistant Director for Research and Analysis at the [[Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia]] under [[Joan E. Jacoby]]. In that capacity, he was a member of the original 1969 team assembled to design the [[PROMIS|Prosecutor's Management Information System]], working with co-directors Joan E. Jacoby and [[Charles R. Work]] and project manager [[Bill Hamilton]] at [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]].[^1] A May 1971 system overview lists him among the team's members as an assistant director of the Office of Crime Analysis.[^2] He is listed with Jacoby, [[Leonard R. Mellon]] and [[Edward C. Ratledge]] as an author of the 1982 National Institute of Justice report *Prosecutorial Decisionmaking: A National Study*.[^3]
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[^1]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair: Investigative Report.* House Report 102-857, 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, September 10, 1992.
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[^2]: Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., *System Overview and Report Formats for PROMIS* (May 1971), prepared for the District of Columbia Government Office of Crime Analysis under LEAA Grant No. 70-DF-047, note 1 to the passage on the design team, NCJ 32469. https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/32469NCJRS.pdf
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[^3]: Jacoby, Joan E., Mellon, Leonard R., Ratledge, Edward C., and Turner, Stanley H., *Prosecutorial Decisionmaking: A National Study* (National Institute of Justice, 1982), NCJ 79227. https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/prosecutorial-decisionmaking-national-study
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