Iran Contra Alumni in Bush Gov't
By The Associated Press
AP-NY-03-13-02 0135EST
Former Iran-Contra figures who have been given
jobs in the Bush administration:
• JOHN POINDEXTER. Reagan national security
adviser during Iran-Contra, the retired admiral is director of
the Pentagon's Information Awareness Office. Created after the
Sept. 11 terror attacks, the office uses computer technology to
detect and analyze new kinds of military threats, including those
from terrorist organizations. Poindexter was convicted in 1990
on five felony counts of conspiracy, making false statements to
Congress and obstructing congressional inquiries. In 1991, an
appellate court overturned the convictions and similar ones against
former White House aide Oliver North. The court held that the
government had improperly used immunized congressional testimony
against them.
• ELLIOTT ABRAMS. A former assistant secretary
of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, Abrams was hired by Bush
last year as special White House assistant for democracy and human
rights. Abrams pleaded guilty to withholding Iran-Contra information
from Congress and was among six Iran-Contra figures pardoned on
Dec. 24, 1992, by the first President Bush.
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