At 10:40 AM 11/22/96 -0800, Lucky Green wrote:

The LEA's are not intested in saving the public money. They are interested in preserving and expanding their power. If it costs $1,000,000 per wiretap, who cares? The government has men with guns that can always go out and extort more cash from the population.

--Lucky

They could if they would; but they can't so they won't. Governments (like real people) always collect as much revenue as they possibly can at a given time. If they could figure out a way to get more they would. To argue otherwise is to imply that they are not maximizing their total monetary and psychic income and are forebearing to grab all they could. I don't think members of this list should pay The Great Enemy such a compliment. Remember the findings of the Public Choice school. DCF