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Admiral Poindexter

By Daniel Schorr
Published November 23, 2002 at 10:00 PM MST

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.

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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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