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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:22 AM
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So where the hell is John Poindexter?
Edited on Fri May-12-06 10:25 AM by zulchzulu
http://hotwired.lycos.com/news/politics/0,1283,56860,00.html
http://eyeball-series.org/tia-eyeball.htm

Well, there is a way to find out...but it seems his Total Information Awareness program kept going even though it was supposed to have been shut down. He resigned his Pentagon research job effective August 29, 2003.

Call 301-424-6613 to see if he'd like to interview on CNN or any other network.

Some quotes by him:

The privacy work was part of what was canceled. But I think it should continue. And I think that eventually it will be continued. I'm an optimist.
John Poindexter

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
John Poindexter

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
John Poindexter

I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.
John Poindexter

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
John Poindexter

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
John Poindexter
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:24 AM
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1. If we told ya, we'd have to shoot you.
But let's just say he isn't so far that he's lost touch with consumer's telecom and banking interests.

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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:31 AM
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2. Sheesh, get him back on "Felix the Cat" where he belongs. . .
:evilgrin:
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:36 AM
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3. Deep underneath Washington running Ollie North's secret government?
EOM
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:39 AM
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4. An undisclosed location
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:40 AM
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5. Rexcommended
I've been wondering when John Poindexter would come back into this obviously continued program.
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-12-06 10:50 AM
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6. Democracy Now features a story about TIA going inside NSA
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/27/1519235

Do you think the MSM would cover this story?

:boring:
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