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Meet America's New Big Brother
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Who's John Poindexter?
A retired Navy Admiral, John Poindexter lost his job as National
Security Adviser under Ronald Reagan, and was convicted of conspiracy,
lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and destroying evidence in the Iran Contra scandal.
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What's the Information Awareness
Office (IAO)?
It's a new office created by the Pentagon agency DARPA
after 9/11 to gather intelligence through electronic sources like the
internet, phone, and fax lines. [2]
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Why did
John Poindexter get the job?
He was the Vice President of Syntek
Technologies, a government contractor. Syntek
and Poindexter worked for years with DARPA to
develop Genoa, a surveillance device that's a
combination cutting-edge search engine, sophisticated
information harvesting program", and a
"peer-to-peer" file sharing system. Kind of
a military-grade Google/Napster for use in instant analysis
of electronic data. [3]
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What was
Iran-Contra all about? |
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Iran
had been holding Americans hostage. President Reagan said we
would not negotiate with terrorists. At the same time,
the CIA wanted to support a rebel army in the overthrow of the
Nicaraguan government. Congress said no.
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So John
Poindexter, along with Oliver North and many others, went
behind President Reagan's back (supposedly) and sold weapons
to the Iranians (illegally), then took the money they made and
funneled it to the brutal "Contra" army that they
built in Central America (also illegally). See
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