When Vice Admiral John Poindexter, the mastermind behind the United States government’s secretive and controversial Total Information Awareness network, spoke at Duke University last week as part of a ...

I wolfed down your fantastic new book, The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, in three sittings. It's a narrative, and a propulsive one, so I kept turning the pages, completely ...

Poindexter to ResignPentagon officials announce that retired Adm. John Poindexter, the man behind plans for a "terror futures" market, will step down from his post.

John Poindexter keeps an old photo of his grandfather tending a cabbage patch. He says it illustrates something about his family's character - what he calls an "oddball gene" that connects Poindexter ...

The pursuit of a technological solution to the nation's military challenges is nothing new for Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter -- nor is the attending controversy. Poindexter, 66, is the force behind the ...

John M. Poindexter, the retired rear admiral involved in the Pentagon's ill-fated plan to launch an online futures market for betting on Middle Eastern developments, will be leaving his job with a ...