From: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 16:58:20 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Crypto export legislation defeated in House Intelligence Cmte.
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: I recommend that we give up the battle and go fight the real war. We are
: totally outgunned if we stick to this approach and are wasting our time.

: What the entire net community should do is focus it's energies on chopping
: NSA's budget, period. That's what these guys really care about after all. 

There was quite an interesting quotation in one of the British papers
recently from Ames, the CIA spy who was caught - he said that the intelligence
infrastructure in the US was a self-serving bureaucracy. I forget the exact
wording, but it was the sort of thing you'd imagine the head of any big
organisation like that would want to say but was never in a position to
be able to - of course, now Ames can say what he likes :-)  I wonder if
he's available for interviews by the Cypherpunk Press ;-)

G