From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 10:54:09 PST
To: Phil Karn <karn@unix.ka9q.ampr.org>
Subject: 2nd CJ update
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Phil Karn writes:
 > Looks like the stalling tactics have begun. I just got a phone call
 > from "Susan Shea" from the National Security Agency. She said that to
 > "make a better determination" she would need a copy of the diskette.

Well, this *might* be a stalling tactic, or it might just be typical
bureaucratic behavior.

Put yourself in the bureaucrat's place: you start working on this
problem, and you decide everything looks OK for approving the request.
You take the approval form to your superior for a sign-off, and she
asks "How thoroughly did you examine the material?"  Nobody in their
right mind would want to be in this position and have to answer "Well,
I didn't look at it at all.  They said it was the same as this other
stuff here."

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