From: Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 05:12:55 +0800
To: "Brock N. Meeks" <hua@chromatic.com>
Subject: Re: Freeh slimes again: Digital Telephony costs $2 billion now ...
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And I testified in front of the House that their estimate was grossly
understated. I think it is more like 4-5 Billion . I called it the Software
Full Employment Act of 94. (copy of testimony available). djf

At 08:52 AM 8/2/96 -0700, Brock N. Meeks wrote:
>
>On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Ernest Hua wrote:
>
>> Louis Freeh is now asking the Congress for $2 billion to fund
>> Digital Telephony.  Yes, that is FOUR TIMES what he said it
>> would cost the taxpayers to give up their own privacy.  Score
>> one for the cynics who said $500 million was not enough.
>
>I broke the story about how much Digital Telephony would *really* cost in 
>CyberWire Dispatch more than two years ago.  The price tag in my piece:  
>"... at least $2 billion..."  In that Dispatch I wrote that the Clinton 
>White House had made the decision to support the bill based on a flawed 
>cost/benefit analysis study the FBI had done.
>
>--Brock
>
>