From: collsc@snowbird.aud.alcatel.com (Scott Collins)
Date: Thu, 12 May 94 10:44:09 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: San Jose Mercury News Washington News in Brief Blurb
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> 
> Thursday May 12, 1994
> 
> ELECTRONIC SNOOPING TAKES SHARP UPTURN
> 
> Wiretaps and electronic monitoring by federal agents,
> primarily against suspected drug traffickers, grew by a
> third during the first year of the Clinton administration,
> the largest increase in a decade.
> [N722]
> 

This from the same Administration which rationalizes its attempts to
emasculate cryptography by citing the need for and widespread use of
such methods.

Coincidence?  You decide.

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