HEAVE-UP - PHOENIX JOURNAL #95 - (PHASE ONE) - CHAPTER 16 - 'INSLAW'S OWNER SPEAKS''
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PJ 95
CHAPTER 16
INSLAW'S OWNER, BILL HAMILTON
SPEAKS WITH CONTACT
By Rick Martin5/11/94
"The Clinton Justice Department is scheduled to release, within the next couple of weeks, its own review of the Inslaw case. That review was conducted under the auspices of Webster Hubbel who was the Associate Attorney Generaluntil April, when he resigned to return to the private sector.
"I'm not too optimistic because the department, as an institution, cannot credibly investigate itself criminally. And there needs to be an independent investigation by an Independent Counsel. Someone who doesn't care which way the dominos fall. You know?
"We had one meeting with an FBI agent and the First Assistant U.S. Attorneyfrom Los Angeles on our February submission. [A 29-page memorandum filed by Bill and Nancy Hamilton, joined by former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, with Attorney General Janet Reno charging that the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in the Department of Justice (DOJ ) houses a covert operations unit and that it is tied to at least one murder.]And they had questions principally about material in that submission about the death of the journalist Danny Casolaro.
"During that meeting they confirmed to us that something we had heard from a confidential source was true. And that was, a maid at the hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia had seen a man coming out of Danny Casolaro's hotel room the morning he was found dead, but before his body was discovered. Then, subsequent to that meeting, the Justice Department attempted to deny that they had, in fact, confirmed that during the meeting with us. And that effort to deny it makes you very uncomfortable, you know?
"We have always maintained that public confidence in a Justice Department requires that they step aside on the Inslaw matter and let an Independent Counsel be appointed. Our first priority is that the Justice Department should pay us for the amounts fully litigated in the Bankruptcy Courtand the U.S. District Court, and confirmed by the House Judiciary Committee. That's the usage by the U.S. Attorney's Offices. And, right after they did that, they should step aside, recuse the Justice Department from the Inslaw case and seek the appointment of an Independent Counsel as soon as that Independent Counsel Statute is reinacted, which should be this month or next."
http://www.phoenixarchives.com/contact/1996/1196/110596.pdf