I am amused to see that Senator Leahy's press release was in fact more "radical", and closer to the typical position of a cypherpunk then the EFF press release was. An actual politician simply read the Gore letter for what it was: no significant change in their policy whatsoever. While the "public interest" or "advocacy" group that the EFF is supposed to be appearantly decided it would be more politic to make friends with the administration by pretending they've made some progress. I'm sure Leahy (or one of his aides) assumed the EFF would be saying the same thing as Leahy was. He's probably berating one of his aides right now for releasing a statement that was more radical and likely to anger the administration then even the EFF statement. Sigh.