In 1990 Vice Admiral stood trial on charges stemming from the Reagan-Bush Administration's Iran-Contra Affair he was convicted of five felonies including conspiracy, obstruction of the Congress' investigations into the matter and making false statements to Congress. His appeal was successful and the convictions thrown out, not because of a deficiency in the evidence but because Congress had compelled his testimony by granting him use immunity. The prosecution did not adequately show an independent discovery of the evidence it marshaled against the former Reagan National Security Advisor. It was on that basis that the Court set aside the convictions of Poindexter and Oliver North. In order to insure that the case would not be re-tried President George H. W. Bush granted a pardon to Poindexter before leaving office.

Following his resignation in disgrace Admiral Poindexter founded TP Systems, Inc a software development firm, consulted with Elkins Group sitting on that company's Board of Directors and was a Senior Scientist at Presearch, Inc. He became a Vice-President at Syntek. His resume, published by Syntek features his service as National Security Advisor and dismisses his role in the Iran-Contra Affair as "support for the democratic resistance in Nicaragua, and an attempt to begin rationalization of U.S. relationship with strategically important Iran".

While at Syntek Adm. Poindexter supervised the company's contracts with the Defense Department Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA]. Syntek was developing a software product called GENOA. DARPA calls Genoa "a search engine on steroids". It reportedly combines peer-to-peer technology with highly sophisticated data collection and a powerful search engine. It expends on the DIA program code named Echelon that intercepts, analyses and catalogues nearly all of the electronic communication between Europe and the United States.

In August 2001 Federal Computer Week's George I. Seffers interviewed Poindexter and Lt. Col. Doug Dyer, DARPA's man in charge of the Genoa project. As part of the interview Seffers was shown a demonstration CD he described in his article published September 17th.

"A demonstration CD-ROM provided to FCW includes a fictional scenario in which high-ranking intelligence officials search for information on Osama bin Laden and his terrorist group, Al Qaeda. Three officials from the National Security Council, Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency meet online, share research and publish it-complete with supporting evidence in HTML-directly to Intelink, an intelligence network."

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0917/news-genoa-09-17-01.asp

In November John Poindexter joined other Iran-Contra figures in the George W. Bush Administration when he was named to head the new DARPA Office of Information Awareness applying the Genoa Project to domestic communications. How well will Poindexter's activities intercepting electronic communications be supervised by the White House and the Defense Department. We can look to his history as a guide.

On July 17, 1987 Poindexter, testifying in the Iran-Contra hearings said, "I made a very 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." That is why we need to be concerned - very concerned - with the Bush Shadow Government. Poindexter, DARPA and Syntek made their demonstration CD at least a month before 911. It is a chilling coincidence.