From: "Brock N. Meeks" <brock@well.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 03:07:07 +0800
To: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
Subject: Re: Freeh slimes again: Digital Telephony costs $2 billion now ...
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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