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From: Ben Masel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] Admiral Poindexter's Back
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The Guardian (London) Monday February 18, 2002
John Sutherland
How one of the two brains behind the Iran-Contra scandal this week became
one of America's most powerful men
Last Wednesday something strange happened. The American population
was instructed to panic. Place themselves, that is, on a state of highest
vigilance. Some cataclysmic act of terrorism would happen - within hours. But
nothing terrible happened. Something creepy did. On Thursday there was an
inconspicuous news item. John M Poindexter had been appointed to head a
new agency "to counter attacks on the US", such as Wednesday's no-show. It
is equivalent, in British terms, to Jeffrey Archer being made chancellor
of the exchequer.
The agency which Poindexter will run is called the Information Awareness
Office. You want to know what that is? Think, Big Brother is Watching You.
IAO will supply federal officials with "instant" analysis on what is being written
on email and said on phones all over the US. Domestic espionage.
You want to test it out? Text-message any American friend, "Bmb OK. Allah
gr8".
The IAO is one of two new offshoots of the Pentagon-based Darpa - the
Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (it's venerable ancestor,
Arpa, invented the internet). The other new agency is called the Information
Exploitation Office. Its mission is to supply similarly instant analysis
about overseas enemy targets. IEO will employ the computerised sensor
networks that have proved so successful in Afghanistan. And, from now on,
America - with IEO guiding its smart weaponry - will launch sneak attacks. No
more Mr Nice Guy.
IOA and IEO will get a big chunk of the $48bn of the taxpayers' money
George Bush is pumping into his war on the evildoers. Never again will it be
said that US intelligence agencies went to sleep on the job - or that
they were too careful about the American citizen's civil rights to do that job.
No more Mr Scrupulous Guy.
Poindexter is frighteningly smart and very unscrupulous. He graduated top of
his class at the Naval Academy in 1958 and went on to a PhD in physics at
the California Institute of Technology. He returned to uniform as America's
best-educated sailor. He wasn't a desk warrior. Poindexter commanded
missile destroyers. He won medals to hang alongside his academic
diplomas. He is the model for Tom Clancy's hero, Jack Ryan.
After the assassination attempt on President Reagan in 1981, Poindexter
was called in to review White House security. Reagan was impressed and
appointed him a national security adviser, in 1983, with the rank of vice-
admiral.
At this point, things started to go wrong. He and Oliver North were found to be
up to their necks in the Iran-Contra (guns for hostages) scam, which blew up
in 1986. 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. The case against them was that they meticulously
wiped out 5,000 incriminating emails - but forgot about the back-up tapes.
Even smart guys goof sometimes.
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).
His excuse for his behaviour was brazen: "I made a very deliberate decision
not to tell the president so that I could insulate him from the
decision and provide some future deniability for the president if it ever leaked
out." In other words, he gave himself the right to run America's foreign policy
behind the back of the commander in chief. Who the hell voted for John M
Poindexter?
Both North and Poindexter have gone on to do well. North has a radio chat
programme that rivals Rush Limbaugh in rightwing virulence. Poindexter was
recruited by Syntek Technologies, a firm in bed with Darpa. His hand was
back in the hi-tech cookie jar. As a company vice-president, Poindexter
helped develop Genoa - an "intelligence mining, information harvesting"
system designed to explore (clandestinely) large computer databases. Listen
in on America's electronic conversations, that is.
Poindexter is, once again, one of the most powerful men in America. His job
description is "crisis manager". How do you put a man with Poindexter's
record back in the manager's box? Well, a spurious crisis would be
convenient. Now do you understand what was going on last Wednesday - or
must I spell it out for you?
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