TIA and MATRIX more in common than just spying and cocaine

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http://www.oldamericancentury.org/oh_republicans.htm
(the original has plentiful link goodness)

John Poindexter and Hank Asher: Former business partners or just so much in common? Specializing in covert domestic spying programs and cocaine trafficking.

Poindexter orchestrated the domestic spying program (operation Phoenix) in Indo-China where kidnap and assassination were the rule of the day. Poindexter was up to his epiglottis in the cocaine side of the Iran Contra scandal and received five felonies as a result. Poindy escaped prosecution on technicalities thanks to Bush senior. Years later Poindexter is appointed by Bush Jr to create the Total Information Awareness Office. Shortly thereafter Poindexter steps down under public scrutiny and congress refuses to fund the TIA office that he created due to its unconstitutionality.

Hank Asher then creates the MATRIX as a state level network version of the TIA office. Essentially continuing the TIA office, but freeing it from congressional oversight and federal whistleblower protections. He admits smuggling millions of dollars worth of cocaine in 1981 and 1982. Coincidentally at the time when the Iran-Contra dealings were in full swing.

But this is only speculation. Could there be more of a link between illegal dealings between Hank Asher and the republican party? OF COURSE THERE IS!

In 1992, Asher founded Database Technologies, which later merged with ChoicePoint. In 1999, he founded Seisint Inc. by merging two companies. He is still on Seisint's board of directors, and continues to play an active role in the company ChoicePoint, gave Florida officials a list with the names of 8,000 ex-felons to "scrub" from their list of voters. But it turns out none on the list were guilty of felonies, only misdemeanors.

So there we have it. We went from having a domestic spying agency run by a five time felon to having the same domestic spying program sans congressional oversight and whistle blower protections run by a convicted drug smuggler who has proven that he'll break the law to further the republican agenda.

[cosmicaug]

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