John Poindexter
John Poindexter
John Marlan Poindexteris a retired United States naval officer and Department of Defense official. He was Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor for the Reagan administration. He was convicted in April 1990 of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran–Contra affair, but his convictions were reversed on appeal in 1991. More recently, he served a brief stint as the director of the DARPA Information Awareness Office for the George W. Bush administration. He is...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth12 August 1936
CountryUnited States of America
John Poindexter quotes about
I didn't particularly want to come back into government and run it. However, in the end, it seemed like the only way we could get it off the ground.
One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.
It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.