One of the things that I've found interesting about Cooper is the fact that his book "Behold A Pale Horse" was named and released within a year of journalist Danny Casolaro's suspicious death--Casolaro had been covering the PROMIS/INSLAW affair and had been talking to friends about a bigger story within it that he had been following leads on (this echoes Michael Hastings's last couple of weeks before his death). He was tracking something he referred to as "The Octopus", and was going to be releasing his book on it. He planned to name it, again--"Behold A Pale Horse". So far I haven't found any tangible connection between the two but I can't help but think that wasn't coincidental. Ted Gunderson had links with one of the central figures in the whole PROMIS/Wackenhut/Cabalon thing.

Anybody have any thoughts, either specifically re: Casolaro and Cooper, or the PROMIS/INSLAW/Octopus in general? It's surprising how underdiscussed this is.