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Betrayer of Constitution gets Pentagon spy job
A great and scary web page about John M. Poindexter's appointment as Director of the Pentagon's Information Awareness Office.
Remember Poindexter from Reagan and the Iran-Contra scandal? He was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and the destruction of evidence in 1990, but his conviction was overturned on appeal because of concerns that his public testimony before Congress while under a grant from immunity essentially made it impossible to fairly prosecute him. I can understand the legal decision, but it makes me furious that someone who violated their oath to the Constitution of the United States, but escaped jail time because of legal technicalities, is back in an office of trust. Essentially, he is being rewarded with a Pentagon job for having protected Reagan by lying.
And what is he doing? Well, check out the official site with the eerie logo:
"focusing on the development of: 1) architectures for a large-scale counter-terrorism database, for system elements associated with database population, and for integrating algorithms and mixed-initiative analytical tools; 2) novel methods for populating the database from existing sources, create innovative new sources, and invent new algorithms for mining, combining, and refining information for subsequent inclusion into the database; ..."
So this is the man who is figuring out how to spy on us more effectively using technology. Scary.
Whoever put together the Poindexter site also put together a great James Baker site as well. Recommended.
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