Poindexter served in the Reagan administration as National Security Advisor, the position currently occupied by Condoleezza Rice. Poindexter was convicted of conspiracy, lying to Congress, defrauding the government and destroying evidence in the Iran/Contra scandal in 1986. He was subsequently pardoned by George Herbert Walker Bush in 1992. Poindexter, despite these convictions, was brought back into government service by George W. Bush and put in charge of the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness Database, a plan that has been attacked by civil liberties groups from all points on the political spectrum.

Can you imagine the Bush administration TRYING to get away with it?
I'm glad the lawmakers forced him to step down. They are the good ole boy's club of crooks and criminals.