From: jrk@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 93 10:28:51 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: CLIP: Legal Aspects
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George Gleason writes:
>Clinton has expressed a commitment to civil rights causes, so I don't worryu
>about his administration pullling another WAtergate or COINTELPRO, but if we
>ever got another bunch of zealous authoritarians in there...!

Pardon a perhaps clueless question from a foreigner, but how much control
does the US president actually have over a potential bunch of zealous
authoritarians elsewhere in the administration, especially in super-secret
places like the NSA?  How much control is it even possible for one person
to hold?

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