Poindexter, the people's choice

1990 USA: Former Reagan national security adviser John Poindexter (b. 1936) was sentenced to six months imprisonment, having been indicted on March 16, 1988 on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. He was the first Iran-Contra defendant to receive prison time in the arms-for-hostages scandal.

However, seems you can’t keep a bad man down. On February 13, 2002, the media learned that he had become the Director of The Pentagon’s Information Awareness Office (IAO), a secretive intelligence bureau whose mission is to gather and centralize as much information as possible about everyone, intending to unify all private databases about US citizens into one central database run by the government (including information about travel, credit card purchases, medical history, and so on).

The IAO uses the full capabilities of Echelon technology and a sister organization called the Information Exploitation Office for its Big Brother capabilities. In being selected to head up this domestic spying operation, Poindexter joined a growing list of recycled Reagan/Bush officials with Iran-Contra scandal involvement to find a home in the George W Bush administration, including Otto Reich, Elliott Abrams and John Negroponte. Controversy over Poindexter’s integrity followed his appointment to the position due to his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.

The eyeball animation above, by the way, is not one of my toonimations. Hard though it might be to believe, it is the actual animated logo that the IAO put on the Web, providing the public with an insight into these people's utter bereftness of a sense of irony and ... how shall I put this ... lack of awareness.