I was at the EPIC conference yesterday (6/3) -- where Whit Diffie, BTW,
At 10:17 AM 6/4/96 -0400, Carl Ellison wrote: presented the same argument Steven Cherry gave in this BillWatch -- but at the end of the EPIC conference we had Scott Charney of DoJ on a panel about what the OECD is doing (pushing Clipper internationally) and we kept going round with him on the administration's pushing of Clipper (N). [One attendee described this as "forum shopping" -- looking for a friendly place to push Clipper.]
There were people battling him over his alleged representation of the USA
at the OECD -- claiming he was misrepresenting the country by pushing Clipper. His response was that the Executive is empowered to do all international meetings/negotiations/....
After the meeting ended it hit me what the problem is and I mentioned it to
PRZ. We're complaining that the Executive has gone rogue -- is disobeying the will of the people. PRZ likened it to Nixon's war in Cambodia. I have a solution to that problem. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com