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category: Other
summary: James Walker is the Chief Security Specialist with the Justice Management
  Division, having been employed by the DOJ for eight years.
tags:
- Person
---

James Walker is the Chief Security Specialist with the Justice Management Division, having been employed by the [DOJ](/organizations/department-of-justice/) for eight years. His duties include operating a Sensitive Compartment Information Facility (SCIF), a specially constructed room within the DOJ building for storing classified national security/foreign intelligence documents. Walker supervised [Garnett Taylor](/people/garnett-taylor/), a former DOJ security officer, for approximately one year. Walker had no recollection of an incident where he reassigned Taylor and handled document disposition himself. He stated that there were no [Inslaw](/organizations/inslaw/) or [PROMIS](/programs/promis/) documents in the DOJ Security Department, nor in any of the safes he controlled or knew about.[^1]

[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.* March 1993.