From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 12:05:50 +0800
To: Carl Ellison <shabbir@vtw.org
Subject: Re: (VTW) BillWatch #48
Message-ID: <199606041724.KAA28886@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 10:17 AM 6/4/96 -0400, Carl Ellison wrote:

>I was at the EPIC conference yesterday (6/3) -- where Whit Diffie, BTW, 
presented the same argument Steven Cherry gave in this BillWatch  -- but at 
the end of the EPIC conference we had Scott Charney of DoJ on a panel about 
what the OECD is doing (pushing Clipper internationally) and we kept going 
round with him on the administration's pushing of Clipper (N). [One attendee 
described this as "forum shopping" -- looking for a friendly place to push 
Clipper.]
>
>There were people battling him over his alleged representation of the USA 
at the OECD -- claiming he was misrepresenting the country by pushing 
Clipper.  His response was that the Executive is empowered to do all 
international meetings/negotiations/....
>
>After the meeting ended it hit me what the problem is and I mentioned it to 
PRZ.  We're complaining that the Executive has gone rogue -- is disobeying 
the will of the people.  PRZ likened it to Nixon's war in Cambodia.


I have a solution to that problem.


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com