At 01:34 AM 5/23/96 -0400, Voters Telecommunications Watch wrote:

REALAUDIO TRANSCRIPTS OF LEAHY'S WIREDSIDE CHAT AVAILABLE Date: May 22, 1996 URL:http://www.crypto.com/ crypto-news@panix.com NEWS Rave reviews of Senator Leahy's appearance on HotWired's WiredSide chat are coming already. With this appearance, the gentleman from Vermont proves once again that he knows net.politics on a personal level, and can understands the subtleties that we assume many in Congress are just learning.

Well, he must have learned it all in the last few months, because his bill was the closest thing to DOA that we've seen in a long time, exceeded only by GAK 3. I'd like to hear from him what the source of the text of the Leahy bill on encryption really was: Who pressured him to make it so bad? Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com