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07/31/2003 Archived Entry: "DARPA's Lex Luthor gets the axe."
DARPA's Lex Luthor gets the axe.
Well, not literally - that'd probably be too much to ask. We'll have to just settle for a resignation. Admiral John Poindexter, Iran-Contra defendant and the brain behind the killed-in-its-crib Terrorist Futures Market, will resign from DARPA in the coming weeks.
Poindexter will resign his position at the Pentagon after a research project he was overseeing was condemned by Congress as an "egregious error of judgment."A senior defense official said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Poindexter realized that "it would be difficult" for him to continue in his job after the flap over a plan to establish a futures market that would have allowed traders to profit by correctly predicting assassinations and terrorist strikes in the Middle East.
He said Rumsfeld did not ask for his resignation but that Poindexter was "working through the details" and "expects to offer" it within a few weeks.
Only about two years too late. And the sonofabitch should still be in prison for his role in Iran-Contra.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
Him, North, McFarland, Negroponte, Abrams, the list goes on...but no, they're all getting paid from our tax dollars...
What honor, What Dignity.
What a joke.
Posted by Jo Fish @ 07/31/2003 03:51 PM NY
