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7 Aug 2022, 7:32 am
"[Former national security adviser John] Poindexter asserts that Reagan's diaries might prove that he was following -- not initiating -- the policy that resulted in the Iran-contra scandal....It's hard to imagine Reagan writing a diary of any literary importance. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 1:43 pm
Shortly after 9/11, a gentleman by the name of John Poindexter — a retired rear admiral, former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, and Iran-Contra conspirator (whose conviction was overturned thanks, in part, to the ACLU) — moved from a hi-tech defense contractor along the Washington Beltway into the halls of the Pentagon. [read post]
19 May 2014, 2:55 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Lewis, Senior Fellow and Director, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS Joseph Lieberman, Former Senator, Connecticut, and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee Michael McConnell, Former Director of National Intelligence John McLaughlin, Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency John Poindexter, Ret. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 5:00 pm
The idea, despite its guilt by association with John Poindexter, is not inherently crazy, but it has definite limits.Posted by Mike Dorf [read post]
19 May 2017, 5:03 am by Paul Rosenzweig
  John Poindexter's conviction in the Iran-Contra affair was overturned precisely because he had been immunized by Congress and the evidence presented against him was determined to be derived from that immunized testimony. [read post]
14 Dec 2021, 8:49 am by Roger Parloff
There, a split panel had overturned two convictions of former National Security Adviser John Poindexter under a different statute, 18 U.S.C. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 1:57 pm by Hopkins
Vice-Admiral John Poindexter made it so when he said: "I made a deliberate decision not to ask the President, so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability for the President if it ever leaked out. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 1:57 pm by Hopkins
Vice-Admiral John Poindexter made it so when he said: "I made a deliberate decision not to ask the President, so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability for the President if it ever leaked out. [read post]
6 May 2008, 10:41 am
On a side note, DARPA tried something like this before when it was running Admiral John Poindexter's future terrorism spotting project, Total Information Awareness program, where they created an entire world of fake people buying and selling fake things, calling their fake friends and visiting fake dentists who filled fake cavities. [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm by John Dean
., Nixon’s former attorney general John Mitchell and former White House chief of staff H. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 2:02 pm
Admiral John Poindexter, of Iran-Contra fame, and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (Darpa) — which is often credited with creating the Internet way back in the late 60's — are the creators of TIA, which is even more intrusive and invasive than it sounds. [read post]
1 Jun 2017, 11:49 am by Jack Sharman
Poindexter and Poindexter’s deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 10:00 am by Steve Vladeck
Vice Admiral John Poindexter served just under a year as President Reagan’s National Security Advisor in the mid-1980s, and then-Lt. [read post]
25 Jun 2007, 12:12 pm
  Supernumeraries John Poindexter, Oliver North, Eliot Abrams, Robert Gates, William Casey (CIA Director), George Bush (Vice President), and the list goes on. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 8:26 pm by Benjamin Wittes
John Poindexter—yes, the same one prosecuted in the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal—who said the key to stopping terrorism was “transaction” data. [read post]
1 Apr 2017, 1:10 pm by Andrew Kent
Lawfare readers are surely aware that on Thursday, the lawyer for former national security adviser Michael T. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 7:22 am by Jeremy Gordon
After the recent presidential election, many commentators and oversight groups have raised concerns that the Trump administration might destroy official documents during the transition. [read post]