From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 07:50:47 +0800
To: Alan Olsen <root@nwdtc.com>
Subject: Re: NEWS.COM - Rumor Mill
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Not a rumor -- it's true. Crowell was wandering around wondering what was
going on.

The excuse was that ~60 votes were scheduled on the Senate floor yesterday.

-Declan


At 14:26 -0700 6/26/97, Alan Olsen wrote:
>No Freeh lunch?
>
>
>http://www.news.com/Rumors/0,29,,00.html
>
>At the end of the article...
>
>While hackers were getting busy, the crypto honchos were
>getting dissed in D.C. Apparently, a group of bigwigs,
>including Louis Freeh of the FBI, William Crowell of NSA,
>Peter Neumann of SRI, and Ray Ozzie of Lotus, flew all the
>way out to the nation's capital for a Senate Judiciary
>Committee hearing on cryptography, only to be informed 20
>minutes before the meeting that it had been canceled.
>Grumbling ensued as the various participants stormed back
>to Dulles airport. The meeting may pick up after the July 4
>recess.