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	John Poindexter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1958, John Poindexter graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a bachelor of science degree in engineering and was commissioned an ensign.
		Poindexter went on to serve in the Reagan Administration as Military Assistant, from 1981 to 1983, as Deputy National Security Advisor from 1983 to 1985, and as National Security Advisor from 1985 to 1986.
		Poindexter was convicted on multiple felony counts on April 7, 1990 for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Poindexter (1189 words)

	John Poindexter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John M. Poindexter was an Admiral in the United States Navy and the National Security Advisor during the Ronald Reagan presidency.
		Poindexter was convicted on multiple felony counts on April 7, 1990 for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair.
		Poindexter faced immense criticism from the media and politicians about the Policy Analysis Market project, a futures market that would have allowed trading in, and profiting from, such events as the assassination of heads of state and acts of terrorism.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_poindexter.html (893 words)

	deal-with-it.org \| the cards \| spades \| john poindexter
		Poindexter's activities led him to lie under oath, deceive taxpayers and elected representatives alike, and practice a kind of tunnel vision that befits fanatics who see only their own narrow view of reality as truly important.
		Ronald Reagan's National security Advisor, John Poindexter was up to his neck in the Iran-Contra scandal, sending weapons to our enemies in order to pursue foreign policy goals Congress had prohibited by law.
		In 1990 Poindexter was convicted on five felony counts, including lying to Congress, destroying documents and obstructing congressional inquiries into the affair.
	www.deal-with-it.org /spades/poindexter.htm (723 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		John M Poindexter had been appointed to head a new agency "to counter attacks on the US", such as Wednesday's no-show.
		Poindexter was charged and found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and the destruction of evidence in 1990; this was overturned on appeal the following year.
		Poindexter was also accused by a Costa Rican government commission of being involved in cocaine trafficking to raise funds for the contras, though this was never proved (you can find details in the Guardian, July 22 1989).
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4358017,00.html (606 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Poindexter To Resign Over Terror Bets Plan
		Poindexter was convicted of conspiracy, lying to Congress, defrauding the government and destroying evidence in the Iran/Contra scandal in 1986.
		Poindexter, despite these convictions, was brought back into government service by George W. Bush and put in charge of the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness Database, a plan that has been attacked by civil liberties groups from all points on the political spectrum.
		Poindexter served as President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser in the 1980s and was convicted for his role in the Iran-contra scandal, a conviction that later was set aside.
	www.truthout.org /docs_03/080103A.shtml (339 words)

	United States v. John M. Poindexter : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		Poindexter's White House career ended November 25, 1986, when he was forced to resign in the wake of the public disclosure of the Iran/contra diversion.
		Poindexter submitted a list of 183 questions, which were not made available to Independent Counsel.19 The court ruled that the questions directly related to the charges in the indictment and to Poindexter's anticipated defense.
		The Poindexter ruling was based on the appeals court decision in the North case, which extended the protections of the use immunity statute to prohibit use of any witness whose testimony has been refreshed or shaped in any way by the defendant's immunized testimony.
	www.indybay.org /news/2002/11/1546690.php (6751 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Hostile Witnesses
		Poindexter served as national security adviser to the president from December 1985 until his dismissal when the Iran-contra story broke a year later.
		If Poindexter's private testimony were somehow leaked and became public, it could taint what the independent counsel took subsequently from other witnesses and make it impossible for him to prove that his evidence against Poindexter didn't derive, even indirectly, from the private testimony.
		Poindexter was dressed in civilian clothes and held a pipe in his mouth throughout.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/irancontra/contra1.htm (1220 words)

	Missouri Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Col. John A. Poindexter
		John A. Poindexter was born 12 October 1825 in Montgomery County, Kentucky, the fifth child of David and Elizabeth (Watts) Poindexter.
		Whatever the case, in early October of 1863, newspapers reported that Colonel John A. Poindexter was released on "heavy bond" from the St.
		Colonel John A. Poindexter died at his residence in Randolph County, Missouri on 14 April 1869, and is buried at the Antioch Cemetery at Milton, east of Moberly.
	www.missouridivision-scv.org /poindexter.htm (3433 words)

	The Short Life, Public Execution and (Secret) Resurrection of Total Information Awareness - Why DARPA's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Poindexter spoke about TIA at the CSO/CIO Perspectives conference in April in Carlsbad, Calif. It was his most broad-ranging discussion of TIA since leaving DARPA; and he used the opportunity not only to promote the concepts behind TIA, but also to defend himself against criticism from Congress, the media and privacy advocates.
		Poindexter, who was then a White House military assistant (he became national security adviser in 1985), credits that event with getting him and others thinking about the problem of "crisis preplanning." Poindexter set up a crisis preplanning group at the White House, as an adjunct to the Situation Room.
		Poindexter believes that his effort to engage the privacy issue both in technology and in policy was a rare gesture.
	www.csoonline.com /read/080104/poindexter.html (4206 words)

	Information Awareness Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Poindexter, former United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan served as the first director of the IAO.
		In addition to the program itself, the involvement of Poindexter as director of the IAO also raised concerns among some, since he had been earlier convicted of lying to Congress and altering and destroying documents pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair, although those convictions were later overturned.
		John Poindexter, Overview of the Information Awareness Office (Remarks as prepared for delivery by Dr. John Poindexter, Director, Information Awareness Office, at the DARPATech 2002 Conference) (August 2, 2002).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Information_Awareness_Office (2234 words)

	Iran / Contra Rehab
		Poindexter also was one of the few Reagan officials who, according to the available evidence, knew that proceeds from the arguably illicit arms sales to Iran were diverted to the Nicaraguan contras.
		John Negroponte was US Ambassador to Honduras and facilitated a clandestine quid pro quo deal, under which the Reagan Administration sent aid to Honduras in return for Honduran assistance to the contras, at a time when Congress had banned the Administration from assisting the contras.
		By the way, Robert McFarlane, Poindexter's predecessor as National Security Adviser and a co-author of the Iran deal and the contra policy, re-emerged in October as an adviser to an anti-Taliban Afghan fighter who was ambushed and killed during a botched operation.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /International_War_Crimes/Iran_Contra_Rehab.html (973 words)

	Warblogging.com — Read in the White House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Poindexter moved on to become Commander of a destroyer squadron, at which time he was Surface Warfare and ASW (Anti Submarine Warfare) Commander of battle groups in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean.
		Poindexter's criminal record of lying to Congress, the President thinks he is "an outstanding American and an outstanding citizen who has done a very good job in what he has done for our country, serving in the military".
		Poindexter has room for only one car in his garage, it should be possible to get photographs of the license plates of one or more of the family's cars.
	www.warblogging.com /tia/poindexter.php (3180 words)

	Rehabilitating John Poindexter. By Timothy Noah
		On Valentine's Day, the Associated Press reported that the Pentagon was rehabilitating John Poindexter, the former national security adviser during the Reagan administration.
		In 1990, Poindexter was convicted of conspiracy, making false statements to Congress, and obstructing congressional inquiries, all in connection with the Iran-Contra scandal.
		Poindexter was also the guy whose memo instituting a disinformation campaign against Libya's Col. Muammar Qaddafi caused false information to be fed to the Wall Street Journal that was defended as "authoritative" by Reagan White House spokesman Larry Speakes.
	www.slate.com /id/2062542 (478 words)

	www.GovExec.com - :FEATURES: :Lightning Rod (7/15/04)
		Poindexter introduced TIA to the Defense Department in October 2001, after the Sept. 11 attacks appeared to show that the world's smartest intelligence services were incapable of connecting dots in a line of intelligence pointing to the assaults.
		Poindexter didn't dream up the idea of culling data for unseen clues, they say, but he did propose an architecture for many systems that was far bolder than anything ever seen.
		Kizmie, Poindexter's 9-year-old golden retriever, was dying of cancer, and the thought of losing one of his two constant companions and sailing partners - Linda being the other - twists Poindexter's face, and his voice quivers.
	www.govexec.com /features/0704-15/0704-15s3.htm (3325 words)

	John Poindexter - SourceWatch
		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.
		Based on the fact that Congress gave Poindexter immunity in exchange for his testimony, the convictions were overturned in 1990, even though the testimony he gave Congress turned out to not be true.
		Eighteen months later, the two publicly exposed projects proposed by Poindexter, Total Information Awareness and Policy Analysis Market were shot down by the media, the general public, and Congress.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=John_Poindexter (306 words)

	Meet Big Brother - John Poindexter and the Iran Contra Reunion Tour
		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.
		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).
		John Poindexter isn't the only Iran-Contra conspirator to be appointed to a high-level position.
	www.hereinreality.com /bigbrother.html (418 words)

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		The same John Poindexter who was convicted in 1990 on five felony counts of conspiracy, making false statements to Congress, and obstructing congressional inquiries into the affair.
		(Poindexter's convictions, along with North's, were later overturned by an appellate court on the grounds that he'd been granted immunity because of his forced testimony to Congress.) That John Poindexter.
		Poindexter's fellow contra boosters Elliott Abrams and Otto Reich already are back in the fold.
	www.prospect.org /print-friendly/print/V13/6/devil3.html (282 words)

	Hall of shame - John Poindexter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Poindexter testified that he had made a "very deliberate decision not to ask the President" about the diversion of missile profits to the contras in order to "provide some future deniability for the President if it ever leaked out." He further stated that Reagan would have approved if he had ever been asked.
		Poindexter testified concerning Oliver North's activities (see card #13) that "I never believed...that the Boland Amendment ever applied to the NSC staff." This odd interpretation of the Boland Amendment, by which Congress had meant to cut off all military aid to the contras, was supported by Edwin Meese, the President's legal advisor (see card #33).
		In 1988 John Poindexter was indicted for defrauding the U.S. government and obstructing justice.
	www.concentric.net /~Gonzoid/Poindexter.htm (6582 words)

	You Are a Suspect
		A jury convicted Poindexter in 1990 on five felony counts of misleading Congress and making false statements, but an appeals court overturned the verdict because Congress had given him immunity for his testimony.
		Poindexter is now realizing his 20-year dream: getting the "data-mining" power to snoop on every public and private act of every American.
		But Poindexter, whose contempt for the restraints of oversight drew the Reagan administration into its most serious blunder, is still operating on the presumption that on such a sweeping theft of privacy rights, the buck ends with him and not with the president.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/1114-08.htm (677 words)

	John Poindexter to Head New Domestic Espionage Office: Is The Government Monitoring Our Every Communication Already?
		Poindexter was responsible for several computer policy mistakes in the computer security realm in the 1980's,' said Marc Rotenberg, a former counsel with Senate Judiciary Committee, referring to Mr.
		Poindexter, and his partner Oliver North, got their convictions overturned by an appellate court on the grounds that their testimony before Congress was immunized.
		Poindexter joins a growing list of recycled Reagan/Bush officials who had their hands in that administration's contra scandal who are now finding a home in the George W. Bush administration, including Otto Reich, Elliott Abrams and John Negroponte.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/CAH/PoindyEar.html (911 words)

	Poindexter's latest brainchild holds many dark angles
		Yes, he's the John M. Poindexter best remembered for another brainchild, the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran where the money was siphoned off to support counterinsurgents in Nicaragua.
		Poindexter was convicted on five felony counts, including destroying official documents, obstructing congressional inquiries and lying to Congress.
		Poindexter was named to head the TIA initiative in January.
	foi.missouri.edu /totalinfoaware/poindexter1.html (820 words)

	Hostile Witness
		According to Poindexter, yes, the president knew that North was the NSC staff officer on Central America and knew, in a general sense, that it was North's responsibility to keep the contras alive.
		It was inconceivable, the same man told me, that Poindexter had approved the diversion or any other illegal activities without the president's approval, and he would have insisted, furthermore, that that approval be explicit.
		POINDEXTER: I think that it's always the responsibility of the staff to protect their leader, and certainly in this case, where the leader is the commander in chief, I feel very strongly that that's one of the roles.
	foi.missouri.edu /homelandsecurity/hostilewitness/hostilewitness.html (5235 words)

	No future for Poindexter? - Jul. 30, 2003
		Heads should roll, critics cry, beginning with the head of John Poindexter, the former Reagan administration official who runs the Pentagon office that cooked up the scheme.
		Yep, Poindexter is about to serve as an example of how accurately a futures market can predict future events -- the very idea that he was espousing.
		Poindexter's is an all-or-nothing contract, meaning that it pays out its full face value (100 points or $10) if Poindexter hangs on through the end of August, and zero if he doesn't.
	money.cnn.com /2003/07/30/markets/poindextercontract (621 words)

	Poindexter Descendants Association
		Other PDA members known to be related to these pictures are Joyce Poindexter Esty of Burlington, Iowa; Kathy Waterhouse, Sperry, IA; Jack Paul Poindexter of Osprey, Florida; John W. (Bill) Meehan of San Gabriel, California and Elizabeth (Beth) Harbert of Overland Park, Kansas.
		John and Sarah lived on the farm she either received or inherited from her father.
		John Lewis was the son of Sarah Tabitha Plunkett and Waddy Thomson Poindexter, named for his mother's maiden name and maternal grandmother's name.
	www.poindexterfamily.org /history/album/Poindexter_Jamie (449 words)

	CNN.com - Poindexter to resign in coming weeks following terror futures flap - Aug. 1, 2003
		Retired Adm. John Poindexter, who created a firestorm this week with his plan to create a futures market that would capitalize on predicting terror attacks, will resign in coming weeks from his post at the Pentagon, a senior defense official said Thursday.
		Poindexter, a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, had been causing a stir since he returned to the Pentagon in 2002 to head up the TIA research program to track terrorist activity.
		Poindexter was Reagan's national security adviser when the Iran-Contra scandal broke.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/31/poindexter.resigns (628 words)

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