From: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 12:38:49 PST
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Subject: Re: BIG NEWS: PRZ investigation dropped!
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On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, John Gilmore wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:11:32 -0800
> From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: BIG NEWS: PRZ investigation dropped!
> 
> From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:53:46 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Justice Dept. dropped investigation of Phil Zimmermann, declines to 
> prosecute.
> They put out a press rel. about it, already got a journo call regarding this.
> More when I find it.

what i'd really like to hear/see is something from the prosecutor or 
grand jury in this case.  i'd like to know what they really thought was 
going to come of this, how much of the investigation was pushed by TLA 
types, and exactly what made them think they actually had a case in the 
first place.

i would hope that after persecuting this man for years they would offer 
some reasonable explanations about their (real) motivations and why they 
decided to drop the case.

- -pjf

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