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Admiral Poindexter

By Daniel Schorr

Published November 24, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr observes that Vice Admiral John Poindexter (ret.) has come in from the cold. A key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, Poindexter has been brought back to head the Total Information Awareness project in the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Daniel Schorr

Daniel Schorr passed away on Friday, July 23, 2010. See an obituary, photo gallery and an archive of Schorr's commentaries for NPR.

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