"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 all questions that need to be explored."

John Poindexter, American Public Servant

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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 all questions that need to be explored."

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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 stronger than we were able to."

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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 factor."

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

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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 use of data about people."

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