http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/politics/13DARP.html
Chief Takes Over New Agency to Thwart Attacks on U.S.
By JOHN MARKOFF
> John M. Poindexter, the retired Navy admiral who was President
> Ronald Reagan's national security adviser, has returned to the
> Pentagon to direct a new agency that is developing technologies to
> give federal officials instant access to vast new surveillance and
> information- analysis systems.
...
> Mr. Poindexter, who is 65, was a controversial figure both for his
> role in the Iran-contra scandals and for his efforts to assert
> military influence over commercial computer security technologies.
...
> "Mr. Poindexter was responsible for several computer policy mistakes
> in the computer security realm in the 1980's," said Marc Rotenberg,
> a former counsel with Senate Judiciary Committee, referring to
> Mr. Poindexter's policies that shifted control of computer security
> to the military. "It took three administrations and both political
> parties over a decade to correct those mistakes."
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