At 06:51 AM 6/21/96 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:

Two things: 1. The letter was copied to Mark Heilbrun, and a phone number is helpfully provided below. 2. D'Amato was copied to encourage him to claim jurisdiction over part of this legislation, yank it into the banking committee, and delay, delay, delay.

-Declan declan@well.com

United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

June 7, 1996 SSCI #96-2219B

The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy United States Senator Senate Russell Building, Room 433 Washington, D.C. 20510-4502

Dear Pat:

[rest of letter to Leahy deleted] Since "everybody" is supposed to agree that the Leahy encryption bill is dead, dead, dead, I don't see this as being any kind of problem. It was disliked by Clinton and the Denning-types, and with the exception of a short flurry of mistaken optimism around here, it was roundly excoriated here as well. The one thing I found disgustingly amusing was the statement from the letter:

Also, both the Congress and the Administration have undertaken to conduct a thorough analysis of a two-year congressionally-mandated study on federal encryption policy that was facilitated by the National Research Council. We therefore feel that your legislation initiative at this time is premature.

They seem to have to do an "analysis" of a two-year study. Harrummmph! Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com