Talk:PROMIS (software)

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A very problematic article

This article began as almost pure conspiracy theory material. Although the most low grade sources have been removed, sourcing is still unacceptably poor. The article also ignores the extensive history of the entire Promis controversy, citing the flawed House Judiciary Committee report, omitting the three other government reports (described in the Inslaw article), and ignoring the Court of Federal Claims hearing and report which settled the Inslaw legal case.

Instead, it cites an NYT article (published the month before the CFC settled the case) which touts the 1997 Calvi and Pfister book, a recycled version of the 1992 Ari Ben-Menashe book. Neither of these books is reliable; Ben-Menashe is not reliable, Calvi/Pfister are not reliable.

Incredibly, NYT even cites an "article" from the Summer 1996 issue of "Conspiracy Nation", a text file zine published on USENET. This is not reliable, not acceptable!

I will come back to this article soon. Rgr09 (talk) 12:54, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your opinion CIA guy! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.43.212.239 (talk) 14:41, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]