From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 13:53:44 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Interactive Week exclusive - White House to launch "Clipper III"
Message-ID: <199605190024.RAA12629@newmail.pacifier.com>
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At 04:09 PM 5/18/96 -0400, Will Rodger wrote:
>The White House is about to answer recent attempts to liberalize encryption
>exports with a proposal of its own.
>
>Documents obtained by Interactive Week show the Ciinton Administration has
>been lobbying key Republican committee members to compromise on encryption
>through a policy that looks very much like previous commerical key escrow
>efforts.

Typical boneheaded government!  At it yet again, I see.  I'd feel inclined to 
say something like "I predict that they will fail" but that might be 
misinterpreted.

This most recent outrage wouldn't even be compatible with the Leahy bill, 
bad as it was.

Even so, I was pleased to see that we had already managed to educate a 
number of people in Congress who already know that this plan is DOA.  That's 
progress, I guess.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com