You didn't read the original clipper announcement carefully. It never said that all access to the escrowed keys was to be handled through warrants. Clearly the other weasel word access techniques envisioned included requests from the Agencies. My paranoid fantasy, actually, is that we are really seeing phase I of a longer term plan, which will result in outlawing non-escrowed keys. The way it works is this: Skipjack is distributed. A clever group of nameless individuals obtains some components. Through significant effort, they determine the algorithm and family key, and they are published. Phase II: mock Agency uproar ensues, NSA claims it tried to be "reasonable" about escrowed keys, but obviously the bad guys have demonstrated that they can't be trusted. The only way to solve the "problem" is to outlaw non-escrowed key cryptography.