At 03:08 PM 7/26/96 -0400, David Lesher wrote:

Further, the more interesting aspects were what Freeh said under interactive questioning by the Senators. He artfully avoided many of their direct questions, but found himself on the rocks on others.

He seemed rather surprised at the tenor & thrust of the questioning; He could not have thought this would be a cake-walk but he sure acted that way.

Here's a question I'd like somebody to ask Freeh: "There are some people who believe the development of uncompromised good encryption and easy communication, represented by the Internet, will lead to a world with drastically less _need_ for government, and a world that will be essentially ungovernable by centralized governments. You are a representative of government, first and foremost. Your job and salary and pension may be on the line if these predictions are true. To what extent is your position on key-escrow/GAK designed to resist or prevent such an eventuality?" (He'll probably answer that he doesn't understand the question..." Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com