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12 quotes by John Poindexter

This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. (November 2012) John Poindexter 14th United States National Security Advisor In office December 4, 1985 – November 25, 1986 President Ronald Reagan Preceded by Robert McFarlane Succeeded by Frank...
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You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the... →

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Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government... →

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I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

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We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

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I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in... →

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I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating... →

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TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

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One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security... →

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I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much... →

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It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

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Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range... →

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The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are... →

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