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The PROMIS Affair - Digging Deeper

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Rise and Fall of Promise Software

In slaw is originally funded as a non-profit. It comes from this thing called the law enforcement assistance administration, which would provide grants and contracts for this sort of research. Promise gets designed by Hamilton and company in the late 1970s and 80s. In spring of 1981, the Reagan administration said promise is one of our greatest assets. By 1983, promise has transformed fundamentally. And in slaw has also transformed. They have these are all just the facts. We're not to the crazy stuff yet, but they start fighting with the DOJ or having what corporate America calls a healthy conversation.

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