Pointdexter,JohnM

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John M. Pointdexter joined the Bush Administration in February 2002 as head of the Office of Information Awareness at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA ->). FOX News reported on November 21st, 2002, that Pointdexter was put in charge of a new system called Total Information Awareness (TIAP ->), which would permit the military to spy on the civilian population of the United States without search warrants by scanning personal information such as email, credit-card statements, banking and medical records, and travel documents for patterns that suggest criminal or terrorist activities. Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C70992%2C00.html

TIA is supported by DARPA, who once developed the Internet, when it just was called DARPANET OR MILNET. DARPA will be in charge of trying to make the system work technically. Rear Adm. John Poindexter, former national security adviser to President Reagan, is developing the database under the Total Information Awareness Program, which funds had been blocked in January 2003 by the Senate. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34837-2003Jan23.html Poindexter was once convicted on five counts of misleading Congress and making false statements during the Iran-Contra investigation. Those convictions were later overturned, but critics note that his is a dubious resume for someone entrusted with so sensitive a task. In December 2002, Pointdexter was victim of a prank, when John and Linda Poindexter's private telephone number appeared on 100 different websites, when Matt Smith, a columnist for SF Weekly, printed the material Cryptome (->), a popular website of privacy-issues, posted satellite photos ( http://cryptome.org/tia-eyeball.htm) of his house. Source: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56860,00.html