John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936 in Odon, Indiana) is a retired American naval officer and Department of Defense official. He was Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor for the Reagan administration. He was convicted of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran-Contra scandal. His convictions were eventually reversed on a legal technicality. Wikipedia
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...'s national security adviser, John Poindexter, and one of Poindexter's aides, Oliver North, began electronically destroying more than 5,000 e-mail messages in the memory banks of the White House computer system. What ... www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/archive/
Convictions were rare in the Iran-Contra affair (Norths and Poindexters were overturned on appeal), and the few verdicts that were handed down in court amounted to little more than slaps on the wrist. www.dreamscape.com/morgana/reagan.htm
Claims of national security led to the dismissal of the central conspiracy charge against North, Poindexter, Secord, and Hakim. www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_cr/s920630-iran-contra.htm
