North tells Poindexter that Noriega can assist with sabotage against the Sandinistas, and supposedly suggests paying Noriega a million dollars cash ; from " Project Democracy " funds raised from the sale of U. S. arms to Iran – for the Panamanian leader's help in destroying Nicaraguan economic installations.

Four Mississippi governors have hailed from Adams County: David Holmes, George Poindexter, John A. Quitman, and Gerard Brandon.

Poindexter went on to serve in the Reagan administration as Military Assistant, from 1981 to 1983, as Deputy National Security Advisor from 1983 to 1985, and as National Security Advisor from 1985 to 1986.

After 2007 Poindexter branched out from National Security and worked to promote Associative Memory Base technology to civilian government agencies such as the IRS for fraud detection.

Funding for the IAO was subsequently cut and Poindexter retired from DARPA on August 12, 2003.

His wife, Linda Poindexter, was an Episcopal priest for 13 years, but retired from the clergy when she converted to Roman Catholicism.

* WarBlogging. com-John Poindexter resume ( archived from Google cache )

During World War I, U. S. Senator Miles Poindexter discussed whether inquiries " to separate the cowards and the slackers from those who had not violated the draft " had been managed properly.

George Poindexter ( DR ), from December 10, 1817

:* George Poindexter ( J ), from October 15, 1830

In his testimony to the congressional committee studying the Iran – Contra affair, Vice Admiral John Poindexter stated: " I made a deliberate decision not to ask the President, so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability for the President if it ever leaked out.

Washington has not elected a senator from east of the Cascades since Miles Poindexter in 1916.

McCandless graduated second in a class of 899 from the Naval Academy ( Class of 1958 ), along with John McCain and John Poindexter.

George Poindexter ( 1779September 5, 1853 ) was an American politician, lawyer and judge from Mississippi.

When former U. S. Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested in 1807 for the alleged Burr conspiracy, Poindexter conducted the prosecution until Burr's escape from custody.

Poindexter was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives in 1805 and was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Territory in the 10th, 11th and 12th Congresses from 1807 to 1813.

Poindexter was a judge for the Mississippi Territory from 1813 to 1817.

Poindexter was appointed to the United States Senate in 1830 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert H. Adams and served from 1830 to 1835.

Poindexter had been a supporter of President Jackson, and had defended him against calls for censure stemming from the Arbuthnot and Ambrister incident, but had slowly become less happy with the President's policies.

Joseph Boyd Poindexter ( April 14, 1869 – December 3, 1951 ) was the eighth Territorial Governor of Hawaii and served from 1934 to 1942.

In addition to the program itself, the involvement of Poindexter as director of the IAO also raised concerns among some, since he had been earlier convicted of lying to Congress and altering and destroying documents pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair, although those convictions were later overturned on the grounds that the testimony used against him was protected.

Jackson also suspected a former friend and supporter, Senator George Poindexter of Mississippi, who had used Lawrence to do some house painting a few months earlier.

Poindexter's tenure as chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims had been considered moderately controversial at the time, as Poindexter had espoused some views that could be considered Socialist regarding government repossession of land.

It does, however, contain some elements from the 1950s series such as Felix's Magic Bag of Tricks and the character Poindexter.

In a 1990 BBC documentary about the case, the officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Jack Swanson, affirmed the Omaha Police Department's fear of the Black Panther Party: " We feel we got the two main players in Rice and Poindexter, and I think we did the right thing at the time, because the Black Panther Party ... completely disappeared from the city of Omaha ... and it's ... been the end of that sort of thing in the city of Omaha — and that's 21 years ago.

Managing the Policy Review Group and the National Security Planning Group that Poindexter had so favored in preparing the NSC for discussions, Powell conducted an NSC process that was efficient but low key.

* WashingtonPost. com-' Poindexter to Leave Pentagon Research Job: Project to Create Futures Market on Events in Middle East Caused Controversy ', Bradley Graham, Washington Post ( August 1, 2003 )

According to the National Security Archive, in an August 23, 1986 e-mail to John Poindexter, Oliver North described a meeting with a representative of Panamanian President Manuel Noriega: " You will recall that over the years Manuel Noriega in Panama and I have developed a fairly good relationship ", North writes before explaining Noriega's proposal.

They have five children, including the late Alan G. Poindexter, a NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle pilot on the STS-122 mission to the International Space Station, and the commander of STS-131.

Poindexter was thought to have made these claims to support President Andrew Jackson's fight with the Second Bank of the United States.

Proper clones have the same intrinsic functions as the original Tom Poindexter version ; sometimes however the direction of angles is changed to match the standard C library's trigonometric functions.

David Rice and Ed Poindexter have become folk heroes of a sort, along with Leonard Peltier.

* 1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal ( the conviction is later reversed on appeal ).

** Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal ; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.

From 1983 to 1985, Poindexter was responsible for leading and managing the National Security Council staff as chairman of the Crisis Pre-planning Group.

As National Security Advisor, Vice Admiral Poindexter was responsible for providing recommendations to the President on national security, foreign policy and defense policy.

From 1990 to 1996, Poindexter served as co-founder of TP Systems, Inc., a software development firm specializing in commercial software for the IBM PCs and compatibles ; Poindexter was the chief designer and programmer.

From 1996 to 2002 Poindexter served as senior vice president for SYNTEK Technologies.

Poindexter was responsible for high-level advice on management and direction of information systems projects ( for example Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Project Genoa ).

The IAO was established after Admiral John Poindexter, former United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan and SAIC executive Brian Hicks approached the US Department of Defense with the idea for an information awareness program after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Poindexter and Hicks had previously worked together on intelligence-technology programs for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

* John Poindexter, Overview of the Information Awareness Office ( Remarks as prepared for delivery by Dr. John Poindexter, Director, Information Awareness Office, at the DARPATech 2002 Conference ) ( August 2, 2002 ).

In 1985 Reagan authorized the sale of arms in Iran in an unsuccessful effort to free U. S. hostages in Lebanon ; he later professed ignorance that subordinates were illegally diverting the proceeds to the Contras, a matter for which Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, an aide to National Security Advisor John M. Poindexter, took much of the blame.

Almost immediately afterwards ( within less than a day ) the Pentagon announced the cancellation of PAM, and by the end of the week John Poindexter, head of the DARPA unit responsible for developing it, had offered his resignation ; the PAM had first been proposed & funded in 2001, and Poindexter joined DARPA in December 2002.

Poindexter was unable to convince his supporters in Mississippi that he was not involved in a plot against the President, and was defeated for reelection.

His parents were Jacob and Jane Poindexter Clingman and he was named for Dr. Thomas Lanier, his half uncle.