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	Women's Independent Press
		Entrepreneur Hank Asher, former owner of DBT and creator of the electronic database Multi-State Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, (MATRIX), blasted his former employees and the company from which he was ousted.
		Through his large assemblage of electronic databases, Asher is able to determine, with just a name, every address you've ever lived at, who lived there with you, what type of cars you've owned, where you've worked, and the names and pertinent information on your siblings, grandparents and friends.
		Asher came to the attention of the state of Florida when he learned through a fellow programmer that the department of motor vehicles needed to up-date its data-retrieval system because of a new insurance law.
	www.womensindependentpress.com /dec2004.htm (1181 words)

	Broward-Palm Beach - News - The Matrix: Unloaded - browardpalmbeach.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Asher was "thrilled" with the arrival of his first-born, according to documents filed in 1993 by the state seeking child support payments from Asher.
		Asher "let me go from employment in his company because his previous fiancée is the [chief financial officer] and he did not want her to know that he was dating me," McCullough claimed in court documents.
		Asher was resentful of the heave-ho and continued to disrupt company operations, according to a law suit filed by DBT three years later.
	www.newtimesbpb.com /Issues/2003-09-11/news/feature_full.html (4266 words)

	Hank Asher
		In 2003, he was hired by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to help them identify potential terrorists.
		This has been highly controversial, largely because of Asher's alleged past links to drug smuggling.
		In 1992, Asher founded Database Technologies, which later merged with ChoicePoint.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/h/ha/hank_asher.html (142 words)

	Asher - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Asher [Heb.,=happy], in the Bible, tribe of Israel.
		As seen on the David Letterman show -- the actors at work series -- with world renowned acting coach, Joel Asher; no actor should be without this three-series collection.
		ASHER AND HANNAH BLACHMAN - From Brooklyn to Beersheba
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Asher.html (443 words)

	Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Maxtrix Links Private Data
		Asher could not be reached by the Journal-Constitution for comment despite attempts to contact him at home, through a family member and through Seisint.
		Asher told investigators "he had shown a lack of judgment during that period," according to the FDLE report.
		Asher was not charged with a crime and cooperated with federal investigators, the report stated.
	www.refuseandresist.org /police_state/art.php?aid=1085 (1842 words)

	clevescene.com - News - The Matrix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Asher developed a list of 419 potential suspects, six of whom turned out to be among the September 11 hijackers.
		Unfortunately, since Asher's methods involved searching the private records of millions of people without a specific reason to suspect anyone, it amounted to profiling, which is illegal.
		Asher was forced to sell his interest in Matrix and Seisint after his smuggling past was discovered by a Florida newspaper.
	www.clevescene.com /issues/2005-03-09/news/news.html (1061 words)

	State: Ex-drug runner steps aside
		The resignation of Hank Asher from the Seisint board removes one obstacle to a contract with the FDLE, state officials say.
		In 1987, Asher was granted immunity from prosecution after he was named an unindicted conspirator in a drug smuggling case involving the importation of cocaine valued at more than $150-million.
		Asher was forced to sell his stock and leave the company, but he immediately began establishing new technology companies.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/08/30/news_pf/State/Ex_drug_runner_steps_.shtml (343 words)

	Talk:Hank Asher - SourceWatch
		Asher avoided detection and was never charged with a crime during what he calls "the hazy period" of his life.
		Bailey told FDLE investigators that he and Asher had concocted a plan that had Asher misleading traffickers into believing their arrests were imminent and Bailey negotiating plea deals that took the smugglers out of the business.
		Asher was listed as a witness in drug trials from Gainesville to Chicago, and once was represented by famed attorney F.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Talk:Hank_Asher (1673 words)

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		Asher was listed as a witness in drug trials from Gainesville to Chicago, and once was represented by famed attorney F. Lee Bailey.
		Asher is wealthy, in part because of the forced sale of his 4.7-million shares in DBT in 1999.
		Questions about Asher and his relationship to Moore and others at FDLE are being raised as Bush and members of the Cabinet interview applicants to replace Moore, who has had the job since 1987.
	www.sptimes.com /Channel10/2003/08/02/State/FDLE_hires_former_dru.htm (1006 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Asher confirmed that he had limited involvement as a pilot for a few months, but police reports said he was never arrested or charged.
		Asher said he then cut it to about 1,200 names, something known as the "1 percent list," which provided leads in scores of investigations, some of which led to arrests.
		Unknown to Asher at the time, he said, five of the names he generated were hijackers on the planes.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2004/06/05/16832821_content.html (1116 words)

	No Place to Hide - American RadioWorks
		Hank Asher has been a leading figure in the data industry since the early 1990s.
		Asher: And, FDLE started manning - They furnished and manned a secure facility that my scientists and my technologists and my programmers and I, ultimately, worked for the next two years, and are still working.
		Asher: The FDLE guys showed up at about 9:00 in the morning, and the secure facility was built by Monday morning, from scratch, with computers on about 20 desks and a conference room tied into our supercomputers and the logic that we had developed.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/noplacetohide/asher.html (613 words)

	No Place to Hide - American RadioWorks
		Asher was spending a lot of time on his boat before 9/11.
		If Asher's supercomputer were used to conduct a background check on Asher himself, it might reveal his association with drug-smugglers.
		Asher's rehabilitation seemed complete in January of 2003 when he flew to Washington, D.C., for a meeting at the White House.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/noplacetohide/b1.html (420 words)

	Subliminal News - Not a Movie: Secret MATRIX Revives TIA at the State Level
		Asher told investigators he was approached by a former business associate and asked to help free "contract" government employees imprisoned in Nicaragua.
		Asher told investigators he withdrew after he was told they might have to kill some people.
		Asher never has been a witness in several drug cases after he was implicated in the Bahamas drug smuggling ring in the mid-1980s.
	www.subliminalnews.com /archives/000079.php (1333 words)

	NBC2 News Online - National center for missing kids opens local branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Peggy and Hank Asher were instrumental in opening a local office and focusing the national spotlight on Southwest Florida.
		Asher believes Collier County is the perfect place to be a role model for these efforts.
		Asher says this and tougher laws are likely the only ways to keep more children safe.
	www.nbc-2.com /articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=3105&z=3&p= (536 words)

	No Place to Hide -
		Hank Asher: And I was standing six feet behind you at that countertop right there, doing the same thing that most Americans were doing: I was drinking.
		Asher: And I said, "Bill, I know how to find these guys." And so, us 50-year-old guys were running across [laughs] my house into my bedroom, which is about a 100-foot run, like we're children.
		Asher: When you take somebody with that much power and you have a president or the head of the FBI that would order something like that to be done, my system [chuckles] would just do it faster than the other ones would.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/noplacetohide/transcript.html (7626 words)

	Why War? Founder of Seisint Inc Implicated As Ex-Smuggler and Quits Job (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Seisint, Inc. announced in a press release Friday that founder Hank Asher resigned his position on the board of directors as part of a management transition that began 18 months ago.
		Asher, a Boca Raton millionaire and major political contributor, was never charged with drug smuggling.
		Asher's first company, DBT Online Inc., bought him out for $147 million in 1999 after the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration suspended its contracts over Asher's past.
	www.why-war.com /news/read.php?id=4022&printme (394 words)

	Ex-NYSE official Kenneth Langone sued - report - MarketWatch
		Hank Asher of Boca Raton, Fla., claims Langone bad-mouthed him and his database company to potential buyers when the company was for sale earlier this year, the Associated Press reported.
		Asher also claims that Langone tried to shut him out of the data management industry, according to the AP.
		Asher called Langone a "Wall Street bully" who has cost him hundreds of millions of dollars, the AP reported.
	www.marketwatch.com /News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={29764EFC-9B09-4248-A1D7-6F256B0C8B73}&print=true&dist=printTop (490 words)

	Mining the Matrix: Government Still Salivates Over Big Brother Database Created by a Cocaine Smuggler
		It was September 13, 2001, and Hank Asher was sitting in his $8 million home in Boca Raton, Florida, seething over the terrorist strikes.
		Asher, creator of advanced data-processing software, suddenly realized he could program his company's computers to hunt Al Qaeda members hiding in the United States.
		After producing the list at his own expense, Asher, a 53-year-old who was already a mega-millionaire from his AutoTrack system, was eager to gain national support for his new project.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/august2004/260804miningthematrix.htm (956 words)

	Common Ground Common Sense
		Three years later, the DEA would learn of Hank's smuggling planeloads of cocaine from the Bahamas in the 80's, and he would be forced out of his company.
		Hank founded another personal data gathering venture, Choicepoint, which was mysteriously hacked into, causing thousands of people to have their identities stolen.
		Amazingly, according to Hank, five of the names were already being investigated by the FBI, and the sixth turned out to be one of the hijackers.
	www.commongroundcommonsense.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=56010 (991 words)

	Terrorism-Fighting program faces critisism over hire: Company brought in to help start Matrix owned by man implicated ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Millionaire Hank Asher of Boca Raton, a friend of recently retired FDLE director James "Tim" Moore and a major political contributor, was never charged with drug smuggling.
		Asher's first company, DBT Online Inc., bought him out for $147 million in 1999 after the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration suspended its contracts over Asher's past and concerns that the company could potentially monitor targets of investigations.
		He said Asher was on a fishing trip and could not be reached for comment.
	news.theolympian.com /PalmNews/20030803/wirelessnorthwest/67542.html (553 words)

	From Drugs to Databases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Asher said he resisted the offers -- until one came from a group of older men with expensive tastes who "ran in social circles that appealed to me." He said he agreed to do them a favor after, having recklessly spent his paint company proceeds, he borrowed money from them.
		The report concluded that Asher piloted up to seven planeloads of cocaine from Colombia into the United States in 1981 and 1982, the largest involving 700 kilos flown to an Okeechobee County ranch.
		Asher has assembled a team of scientists and doctors in a quest for a cure, infusing the effort with $5 million in cash.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v04/n067/a03.html?397 (1696 words)

	Genius, interrupted.(Profile: Hank Asher) - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical
		Henry Edward Asher was born in Indiana in 1951, the son of a dentist.
		Asher answers some interview questions orally and then types more deliberate answers into a huge computer monitor on the table.
		Indeed, Asher did so well on the factory employment test that he was asked to take a more difficult draftsman's test.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-6424_ITM (541 words)

	State contracts with Seisint, co founded by ex-smuggler [13 states try new anti-terrorism product] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A $1.6 million contract with FDLE calls on Asher's company, Seisint Inc., to participate in Matrix, a pilot program with Justice funding which is designed to allow agencies in 13 states to exchange sensitive information on terrorism and other crime suspects.
		Asher has not charged FDLE for many of his services, McLaughlin said.
		Asher has donated more than $735,000 to political parties and candidates in the past five years, including $505,000 to Democrats.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/957113/posts (497 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : MATRIX: Myths and Reality
		Hank Asher, Seisint's founder, had access to this system before court records revealed that he was an unindicted co-conspirator in a group responsible for bringing more than $150-million worth of cocaine into Florida in a single year.
		Further, it was Asher's former company that administered the contract that stripped thousands of African Americans from the Florida voter rolls before the 2000 election, erroneously contending that they were felons.
		Asher was never charged with drug smuggling but became an informant for state and federal authorities.
	www.aclu.org /Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=14894&c=130 (1848 words)

	washingtonpost.com: U.S. Backs Florida's New Counterterrorism Database
		Seisint founder Hank Asher, a wealthy data entrepreneur, called Florida police and claimed he could pinpoint the hijackers and others who might pose a risk of terrorist activity.
		Asher didn't respond to several requests for interviews.
		Asher has also donated services to the FBI, the Secret Service and other agencies.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A21872-2003Aug5?language=printer (1130 words)

	DSstar: ACCURINT TO SPEED THE SEARCH FOR MISSING CHILDREN/CRIMINALS
		Hank Asher, a data technologist with a deep history in creating investigative data systems, created the Accurint product.
		"Hank has once again taken technology to the next level, proving himself to be one of the world's foremost innovators," said Dale Renner, president and CEO of Seisint.
		Hank Asher has been a great friend and champion of the center for many years.
	www.taborcommunications.com /dsstar/01/0703/103221.html (783 words)

	The Open Society Paradox: A Balanced Article on Privacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Yet in descriptions of Hank Asher on the web, some like NetSec and Emergent Chaos, who calls NetSec's writing a "great roundup" are attempting to label Asher as the next John Poindexter.
		While privacy issues, personal data and Hank Asher are current topics, subject to thin opinion based on emotion, Michael Shnayerson's article in Vanity Fair is incredibly well-written, in-depth and balanced.
		Along with a chronology of Hank Asher's companies and his contributions to law enforcement and charity, Shnayerson takes us, in historical context, through the genesis of the public records industry and captures the essence of the man who spearheaded the data revolution.
	www.opensocietyparadox.com /mt/archives/000489.html (1419 words)

	Emergent Chaos: Hank Asher
		Asher would like to build a private investigative agency, he should expect that people will investigate him.
		And, because Hank Asher founded DBT and sold it does not logically mean he is responsible for what the company does subsequent to his departure.
		But to leap from their lack of knowledge to Hank Asher "lying" is a leap with no basis in fact.
	www.emergentchaos.com /archives/001015.html (2474 words)

	AlterNet: A Blip in the MATRIX
		MATRIX was developed by Hank Asher, a wealthy data entrepreneur and founder of Seisint.
		Asher, reportedly a former government informant involved with drug smuggling, resigned from Seisint at the end of August following a series of critical newspaper reports.
		These reports also reminded Florida residents that it was Asher’s former company, Database Technologies, that administered the contract that stripped thousands of African Americans from the Florida voter rolls before the 2000 election, erroneously contending that they were felons.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=16985 (1200 words)

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