From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 09:10:34 +0800
To: Declan McCullagh <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Sen. Specter and Kerry move to delay crypto legislation
Message-ID: <199606211849.LAA04215@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 06:51 AM 6/21/96 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Two things:
>1. The letter was copied to Mark Heilbrun, and a phone number is helpfully
>provided below.
>2. D'Amato was copied to encourage him to claim jurisdiction over part of
>this legislation, yank it into the banking committee, and delay, delay,
>delay. 
>
>-Declan
>declan@well.com

>                          United States Senate
>                     Select Committee on Intelligence
> 
>                             June 7, 1996
>                                                   SSCI #96-2219B
> 
> The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy
> United States Senator
> Senate Russell Building, Room 433
> Washington, D.C. 20510-4502
> 
> Dear Pat:
[rest of letter to Leahy deleted]


Since "everybody" is supposed to agree that the Leahy encryption bill is 
dead, dead, dead, I don't see this as being any kind of problem.  It was 
disliked by Clinton and the Denning-types, and with the exception of a short 
flurry of mistaken optimism around here, it was roundly excoriated here as 
well.  

The one thing I found disgustingly amusing was the statement from the letter:

>     Also, both the Congress and the
> Administration have undertaken to conduct a thorough analysis of a two-year
> congressionally-mandated study on federal encryption policy that was
> facilitated by the National Research Council.  We therefore feel that your
> legislation initiative at this time is premature.

They seem to have to do an "analysis" of a two-year study.  Harrummmph!
 
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com