At 12:23 PM 3/25/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:

Besides, I think the best way to overturn the ITARs is through a court challenge; as I have noted, even the NSA's lawyers felt that the ITARs would not withstand court scrutiny.

Note that the spooks have carefully avoided a full bore court showdown. They harassed Phil until the statute of limitations caught up with them, but never brought it to trial. If we had no further legislation, and the courts broke ITAR, we would be home free. No plausible legislation could give us that. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com