July 07, 2003
#483 - Profiles in Criminality, Part I: John Poindexter

Y’all remember John Poindexter from the Iran-Contra Affair, right?

And you know Bush has him running the Information Awareness Office, home of the Total Information Awareness System, recently renamed (but otherwise largely unchanged) the Terrorist Information Awareness System.

Did you know the IAO website pulled his bio, and any mention of him on its main pages?

It's a good thing his bio is still available; otherwise we might forget that as National Security Advisor under Reagan, "Major events in which he played a significant role included:...support for the democratic resistance in Nicaragua, and an attempt to begin rationalization of U.S. relationship with strategically important Iran."

Here's an idea: let's have Total Information Awareness for American citizens, not about them.

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