“I made a very deliberate decision not to tell the president, so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability for the president if it ever leaked out.”

About John Poindexter

Government Official • American

John Marlan Poindexter is a retired United States naval officer who served as a key Department of Defense official. He was appointed as Deputy National Security Advisor in 1983 and later served as National Security...