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John Poindexter Biography

Armed force officer

John Poindexter is a renowned American armed forces officer. Born on August 12, 1936, he is known for his career in the military and intelligence fields.

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“I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.”

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“It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.”

Ifs Would Be Information Ideals Flow

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“Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.”

Needs Believe Long Government Goal Achieve Awareness Information Objectives Range Setting Goals Good Goal

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“One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.”

States Reason Problem Speak Community Security Elements Solutions Defense Department Staff National Security Fbi Homeland Speaks Out Homeland Security Counter Terrorism Department Of Homeland Security

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“The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.”

Needs Use Problem Would Be Struggle Dollars Be You Incentives

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“I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.”

Thinking Giving Believe Ability Technology Security Trade Privacy Trade Offs

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“You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.”

Ifs Hard Enough Accepting Experiments Objectives Outcomes Pushing

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“TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.”

Real Used Issues Data Privacy Being Real Users Tias

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“I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.”

Ifs Thinking Way Able Resources Stronger Diplomacy

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“Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.”

People Use Government Would Be Walking Activity Access Data Trails Oversight

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“I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.”

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“We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.”

Ideas Wanted Brilliant Good Ideas Brilliant Ideas

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About the Author

Born: August 12, 1936
Known for: Armed force officer
Quotes: 12

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