Chasing the ghost of Faver prepared Poindexter to return to the nightmare of Vietnam.
That's taken some of the pain out of what Poindexter says is a "depression" for his company.
Instead of Poindexter making many decisions himself, he now confers with a group of 10 top leaders.
Poindexter, enthralled by the history, restored the ruined forts and transformed the ranch into a world-renowned resort.
Poindexter found his own account, a 30-year-old manuscript he had submitted unsuccessfully to the Army's Armor magazine.
In 1990, Poindexter bought Cibolo Creek Ranch, a 30, 000-acre spread near Big Bend National Park in west Texas.
Poindexter worked as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers while earning a doctorate in economics at New York University.
Poindexter announced last week that he will once again be leaving government service.
Alas for Mr Poindexter, his secret schemes have once again drawn a spotlight.
" As a result, when the accounts started coming in, Poindexter came to understand "the human side of the battle, the pain and suffering.
Poindexter has been a driving force behind two promising DARPA initiatives: the Total Information Awareness (TIA) project and the Policy Analysis Market (PAM) .
Their actions that day went largely unnoticed -- for decades -- until their old captain, John Poindexter, realized that their service had been overlooked.
Poindexter likens the seven-year process of tracking down vets, soliciting accounts of their battle memories, compiling paperwork and navigating Washington bureaucracies to a grand business project.
Matt Smith, a journalist in San Francisco who believes such surveillance threatens civil liberties, decided to telephone Mr Poindexter at home to ask him about it.
Before Papa left for Fort Smith he arranged for a colored man named Yarnell Poindexter to feed the stock and look in on Mama and us every day.
Mr Poindexter, after a decade in the private sector and the overturning of his 1990 conviction for conspiracy, is now head of the Information Awareness Office in the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency.
In the summer of 2003, New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Mr. Safire sneered at the programs, portraying them as once again the personal toys of the evil Mr. Poindexter to invade the privacy of innocent Americans.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Balancing security and privacy during wartime
In the summer of 2003, New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Mr. Safire sneered at the programs, portraying them as -- once again -- the personal toys of the evil Mr. Poindexter to invade the privacy of innocent Americans.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Balancing security and privacy during wartime
Cross-tracking of this sort has not previously been feasible or legal, but firms such as Syntek Technologies, Mr Poindexter's most recent employer, have devised the necessary software, and the Homeland Security Act signed last month began the process of lowering the legal barriers.
The Arizona senator, who often mentions his time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam era, graduated from the Academy in 1958 along with John Poindexter and Robert "Bud" McFarlane, two consecutive national security advisers under President Reagan who played a role in the Iran-Contra affair.
This decision had to be all the more painful for it being accompanied by a truncation of his Information Awareness program, a smoking crater where the PAM project was to be and his reputation once again sullied by people who are unworthy to hold John Poindexter's coat.
Goaded on by New York Times columnist William Safire, the advocates presented the program as the diabolical plan of John Poindexter, the former Reagan national security adviser and director of Pentagon research, to spy on "every public and private act of every American" -- in Mr. Safire's words.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Balancing security and privacy during wartime
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