Remember the InsLaw Inc case – well it looks set to blow up into a high profile and potentially far-reaching scandal: InsLaw is a tiny Washington DC company that was awarded a $10m contract with the US Justice Department for software designed to make it easier for the police and the authorities to track cases and keep tabs on dissidents, and in 1983, it sued Justice claiming that theer ain’t no such thing and that the Department had stolen its software; a House of Representatives judiciary subcommittee is still investigating the case, but meantime Joseph Casolaro, an investigative reporter of Fairfax, Virginia who had been working for a year researching a book on the InsLaw case, was found in a hotel bathtub with both wrists slashed; a suicide note was found nearby, but an autopsy has been ordered after suspicions were aroused that the death was a murder disguised to look like suicide after the family told police he had no reason to kill himself.
