Newscast: John Poindexter to quit Pentagon after futures market plan set off 
political firestorm

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31 July 2003
Minnesota Public Radio: Marketplace

CHERYL GLASER, anchor:

Former Admiral John Poindexter is reportedly planning to ship out and quit 
his job at the Pentagon after a research project he was overseeing set off a 
political firestorm. The plan, to create a futures market for predicting 
assassinations, terrorist strikes and other events in the Middle East, was 
killed Tuesday after it came under fire in Congress.