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The current incarnation of Danny Casolaro's Wikipedia page is riddled with factual errors. The most glaring one, though, is the date of his death.

He Joseph Daniel Casolaro died on Saturday, Aug. 10 1991. Not Monday, August 12. That date is relevant, though, because that's the day the Martinsburg police first notified the family that their son/brother/father was dead. Detectives from Martinsburg had asked the Fairfax PD to tell the family that Saturday but after failing to do so (the extent that the Fairfax cops went to in notifying the family was to knock on the door of the home where the recently deceased man lived alone and leave a business card on the door when no one answered).

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What this link will bring you to is 2 decades worth of BYLINES — actual printed news articles with Danny's name underneath them, proving he was journalist, not a dabbler in journalism. These clips span through the 70s and the 80s. Ron Rossenbaum said in his beautify written, poorly researched Vanity Fair piece that Danny "walked away from journalism" when he stated REPORTING exclusively in the 80s on the role of computers and advanced technology in our society. In the late 70s Danny wanted to specialize as a writer in technology-related, but at that time there were very few outlets specializing in high tech stories — this is before AOL, before most people had email — so Danny got involved with one of a very small number of computer industry trade publications. The company he worked for was called Computer Age which was a part of a larger company called EDP News Services and the newsletters it produced were legitimate. One needs only review the bibliographies of countless Government Accountability Office reports to see that. So regardless of whether or not Ron Rosenbaum considered what Danny was journalism during the decade or so he was at Computer Age, the United States Congress and various government agencies researching computer and technology-related issues considered the EDP News Service newsletters to be valuable sources of accurate information and thus you can find the titles of these newsletters listed as a source material in countless official reports from that era. Merriam-Webster's first entry under the definition of journalism is "the COLLECTION and EDITING of news for presentation through the MEDIA." The publications published by Computer Age are media, and Danny is listed as EDITOR on the masthead of the clips you'll find if you go to the link provided but I also know — and this is mentioned in a few far-flung articles written about him — that in edition to editing, Danny also COLLECTED, through reporting, mostly over the telephone, the bulk of the information that funneled in to these publications. But still he's established as an editor in the documents that span the 80s, and editing is journalism, so it's a mute point.

I think it's important to include this kind of background information about Danny for this encyclopedia entry about Danny Casolaro because when he started writing about the Inslaw case, a complicated itself involving the theft of even more complicated and highly advanced data tracking software. The relevance of the what exactly the PROMIS software is, eluded the handful of other journalists working on the story at the time at Danny was. Inslaw was Danny's story, it happened within his beat — he'd already written investigative articles about government computer contract procurement — which which is what the Inslaw story is at the base of it. In fact, Computer Age published a few newsletters on government computer contract procurement. One of those was called Federal Computer News. Danny edited this newsletter among many others and the Nation's leading government computer contract procurement consultant, Terry Miller, who was the main contributing writer for Federal Computer News during Danny's stint as it's editor and after. After Danny sold Computer age to the Milner Publishing Group but before he'd begun his investigation into Inslaw, Terry Miller wrote a very astute and indepth piece about the Inslaw case for Federal Computer News. And, believing Danny to be well suited to looked deeper into the case — in early 1990 — he briefed Danny on the nature of the conflict between Inslaw and the DOJ, Danny was intrigued, so Miller — a long-time associate of Bill Hamilton, co-founder with his wife Nancy of Inslaw — put Danny in touch with this couple that was in the midst of an epic legal battle with Justice. That's how it came about that Danny was researching the Inslaw scandal and the slew of interrelated scandals associated with it. he'd be well had over ten years of backround experience they didn't have in writing about advanced computer technology and government computer contract procurement. I don't know why Ron Rosenbaum wrote such a slanted piece about Danny Casolaro. I think whoever put this stuff on here should fix it. I'm happy to help in any way. Please write me Chansenphoto@gmail.com I've your discussions on the back end and I know that all you care. And that the reason you've kept the item that defines him as a dabbler in journlaism is because nothing he's written is online. Now it is and you can and i beg of you, please fix fix this page. I know there's mostly bad information out there about this guy, but if your hesitating because you don't have documents — which kept coming up in the discussions — let me know what you need and I will see if I have it in my files. I have a digitized copy of every single file that remains of what Danny collected during his investigation. These files are stored at the Missouri State Historical Society. I've done extensive research. chansenphoto@gmail.com