However, as Phill notes, the NSA and other intelligence agencies are now in

From: IN%"tcmay@got.net" 28-JAN-1996 03:47:14.08 that most dangerous of positions: a powerful agency or department casting about for something to do. Spying on citizens and keeping the keys to their private communications and diaries is not an appropriate option. AT&T is downsizing, IBM downsized a while back, so why couldn't the NSA just do the right thing: admit that the Soviet threat is no more, congratulate the victors, and downsize by 20,000 employees? ------------------- Funny, everyone seems to forget about China. If I were dictating NSA policies, I'd simply reassign the people to China. Admittedly, modern cryptography makes some of it useless, but HUMINT to get (parts of) codes is still quite possible. -Allen