{"id":627,"date":"2002-07-19T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2002-07-19T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/19\/more-scary-govt-agencies\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T20:56:37","slug":"more-scary-govt-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/19\/more-scary-govt-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"More scary gov&#8217;t agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16001,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.darpa.mil\\\/iao&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241215131139\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.darpa.mil\\\/iao\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 02:37:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 23:10:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 23:10:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16002,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.conspiracyarchive.com\\\/NWO\\\/All_Seeing_Eye.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.conspiracyarchive.com\\\/NWO\\\/All_Seeing_Eye.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16003,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/members.tripod.com\\\/%7ERobertGillette\\\/Illuminati.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16004,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.hereinreality.com\\\/bigbrother.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251106034903\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.hereinreality.com\\\/bigbrother.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 02:37:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 23:10:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 23:10:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16005,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2002_07_01_archive.html#85261218&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110629075525\\\/http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net:80\\\/2002_07_01_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 02:37:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 23:10:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 23:10:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16006,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.io.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20180731194431\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.io.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 02:37:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 23:10:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 23:10:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16007,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=illuminati&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/webhp?hl=en&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Information Awareness Office logo\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2002\/07\/graphics\/iaologo.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" align=\"left\" \/>Here&#8217;s a good one &#8212; let&#8217;s make the logo of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/iao\/\" title=\"Information Awareness Office\">Information Awareness Office<\/a> the beloved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conspiracyarchive.com\/NWO\/All_Seeing_Eye.htm\" title=\"The All Seeing Eye, The President, The Secretary and The Guru\">all-seeing eye<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/%7ERobertGillette\/Illuminati.html\" title=\"The Illuminati Page\">Illuminati<\/a> overseeing the entire globe.<\/p>\n<p>Then, just to make things creepier, we&#8217;ll toss out two pieces of information. First off, the IAO Mission Statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The DARPA Information Awareness Office (IAO) will imagine, develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate and transition information technologies, components and prototype, closed-loop, information systems that will counter asymmetric threats by achieving total information awareness useful for preemption; national security warning; and national security decision making.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Secondly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hereinreality.com\/bigbrother.html\" title=\"Meet Big Brother: John Poindexter and the Iran Contra reunion tour\">information about John Poindexter<\/a>, the man in charge of the IAO:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  A retired Navy Admiral, John Poindexter lost his job as National Security Adviser under Ronald Reagan, and was convicted of conspiracy, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and destroying evidence in the Iran Contra scandal.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eeek.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002_07_01_archive.html#85261218\" title=\"Boing Boing: Meet John Poindexter, the new Big Brother\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(On a random side note, why does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.io.com\/\" title=\"IOCOM\">IOCOM<\/a> come up first on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=illuminati\" title=\"Google search for 'illuminati'\">Google search for &#8216;illuminati&#8217;<\/a>? I&#8217;m guessing they got <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/fun_with_google.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Fun with Google\">Googlebombed<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DARPA Information Awareness Office (IAO) will imagine, develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate and transition information technologies, components and prototype, closed-loop, information systems that will counter asymmetric threats by achieving total information awareness useful for preemption; national security warning; and national security decision making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}