Talk:John Poindexter

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I lifted the background section from a government page still cached at I think memoryhole.org, though it might have been at Google (the cache, that is--the original got taken down shortly after the TIA program was announced). So adjust as necessary; I noticed a lot of attempts to sugarcoat things & removed most of them but probably missed some others. --KQ

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This article - like the Oliver North one - is factually wrong and riddled with bias.

I don't get why Poindexter and North have to be tagged as criminals when they are clearly not.

Can someone without liberal or conservative bias please tackle this one too. Lagavulin 01:14, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

With quotes like this:

Funding for the IAO was subsequently cut and with his already tattered credibility permanently damaged Poindexter resigned from DARPA on August 12, 2003.

Controversy over Poindexter's integrity followed his appointment to the position due to his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.

In protest against what he feels is Poindexter's plan to effect the systematic destruction of Americans' civil liberties and privacy rights,

How can anyone in good faith put trash like that in an encyclopedia article?

Lagavulin 01:15, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't see how you could deffend a slug like Poindexter. However I would agree that the article must be without bias. I don't subscribe to any political idiocy, I mean ideaology. So I may re-write it myself. --Hierarchypedia 23:01, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC) This from another web site: www.hereinreality.com/bigbrother.html - 38k -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.

[edit] Philippines

The article says he helped with the "peaceful transition of government in the Philippines". What does that mean? If it's talking about the U.S. granting independence to the Philippines in 1946, he was only 9 years old at the time. And if it's talking about regular presidential elections in the Philippines, what did he have to do with it? Thanks. Coffee 05:40, 18 August 2005 (UTC)