Because today Bush has lowered his criterion for those he declines to employ to convicted criminals, and because I heard somewhere on some blog or some site SOMEWHERE that he’s put on the payroll people from Watergate and Iran-Contra (or any felon from any scandal, I’m not picky), I’ve been doing a little searching on whom he’s hired. I’m having no luck, though, finding anyone except John Poindexter, who isn’t exactly IN the White House, and whose 1990 convictions were overturned in 1991:
Poindexter was convicted on multiple felony counts on April 7, 1990 for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair. The convictions were reversed in 1991 on the grounds that the prosecution’s evidence may have been tainted by exposure to Poindexter’s testimony before the joint House-Senate committee investigating the matter, in which Poindexter’s testimony was compelled by a grant of ‘use immunity’. The prosecution was not able to re-try the case. wikipedia
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, John Poindexter was appointed by President George W. Bush to lead the Information Assurance Office at the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Despite Mr. Poindexter’s criminal record of lying to Congress, the President thinks he is “an outstanding American and an outstanding citizen who has done a very good job in what he has done for our country, serving in the military”. It is at the IAO that Mr. Poindexter began work on Total Information Awareness, a plan to watch Americans like the Stasi watched East Germans — but using technology this time, instead of people. Mr. Poindexter’s friend Edward Aldridge told FOXNews that “John had a real passion for [Total Information Awareness].” warblogging
Anybody know of any more? I want Bush to have to dig up that goalpost again.
