WASHINGTON, Warning that the federal government is continuing to conceal serious computer security problems with Indian Trust records, lawyers in a class-action lawsuit have urged a federal judge to begin contempt proceedings against newly-installed Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and his top Indian Affairs aide. In a motion filed in the 10-year-old lawsuit over the Interior Department's acknowledged mishandling of Individual Indian Trust accounts, the lawyers said the secretary and James Cason, his acting assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, have ignored a court order that requires them to report about continuing problems Interior is having with its computer systems.
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