The emerging consensus is, in fact, nonexistant. Gorelick trotted out the same fiction when she, Leahy, Sen. Kyl, and White (deputy defense secretary) testified before the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations this morning. (Note that Leahy is only occasionally a friend of the Net. His original crypto bill had troubling additional criminal penalties; he shepharded Digital Telephony through Congress; he is a co-sponsor of the vile copyright bill pending right now. In sum, he'd hurt the Net more than help it. This becomes a problem when netizens hold him up as an champion of our freedoms -- and then when DT II comes along his fellow senators think it's okay to vote for it 'cuz Mr. Net, Leahy, is a cosponsor.) My rebuttal to Gorelick's fantasy is: well, what about Japan, where the country's constitution forbids wiretapping? -Declan Michael writes:

On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

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So, who is in this "emerging consensus"?

Foreign governments? (Process of elimination, not inside info...)

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