Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out :

John Poindexter, the retired Navy admiral who spearheaded two sharply criticized Pentagon projects, intends to resign from his Defense Department post within weeks, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday.
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Poindexter was involved with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s abandoned futures-trading market for predicting assassinations, terrorism and other events in the Middle East, and earlier with the so-called Total Information Awareness program that drew fire from civil rights groups.

The official indicated that Poindexter had become a lightning rod for criticism. Poindexter served as President Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser in the 1980s and was convicted for his role in the Iran-contra scandal, a conviction that later was set aside.

Saying “was set aside” was a cute way of saying that he got off on a technicality. As I understand it, his convictions for “conspiracy (obstruction of inquiries and proceedings, false statements, falsification, destruction and removal of documents), two counts of obstruction of Congress, and two counts of false statements” were dismissed because he’d already been given immunity on other charges and the jury improperly used his immunized testimony against him (correct me if I’m wrong here). Isn’t this just the legal equivalent of a kid claming “no touch backs” in a game of tag? Even if he hadn’t gotten off, he would have likely recieved a pardon for George Bush Sr. Either way, John Poindexter is a goddamn crook who should have never been allowed to work in the government again.