's bill.
*
*   For a committee whose bailiwick is commerce, the senators seemed somewhat
*   detached from their mandate with business taking a backseat.
*

Thank you once again, oh Free World Leaders, for that intelligent discourse.

*   The New York Times, June 15 1997
*  
*   "Washington Kidnaps Dick and Jane - See How Washington Uses Dick and Jane"
*  
*   These days much of the nation's political debate focuses on children - or
*   on the needs and interests of children as defined by politicians.
*  
*   Mr. Horn, who was chief of the Childrens Bureau in the Bush Administration
*   added, "A cynic would say that children are being used as props or proxies."

Color me cynical.

It should be noted, of course, that uncrackable encryption called PGP is
available worldwide for free for all common platforms of computers, that
McCain's bill would do NOTHING to address that (not possible anyway), and
so his argument WAS A TOTAL SHAM.

No newspaper in the country will explain that in their coverage.

The sole purpose of the McCain bill was to protect ECHELON.

#   "The McCain Mutiny", By Todd Lappin, Wired Magazine, June 1997
#  
#   Question: How will we break the stalemate between the interests of
#   industry and law enforcement in setting cryptographic policy?
#  
#   McCain: It's pretty clear that the administration's crypto proposals
#   will have a harmful effect upon the industry. But we can't completely
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