Mark Hedges wrote:

Does anyone know who is behind this crap that the Empire's pushing on the committees? Louis Freeh is the only name I've heard. I've not heard Tenet's name mentioned in any of this. It would be interesting to research the other people involved, to try to find some dirt.

There's considerable push coming from domestic law enforcement agencies of many types and jurisdictions. See letters some of them have made in support of encryption controls in a House statement by Representative Weldon (co-sponsor with Dellums of the National Security Committee amendment to gut SAFE): http://jya.com/weldon.txt These letters are regularly cited Freeh to show that the FBI and other federal agencies are not alone in pushing for GAK, and to remind legislators that the law and order folks at home are a threat to re-election if they don't "give something to law enforcement." And, Freeh often reminds that half of wiretaps are state rather than federal, as shown in the 1997 annual report on electronic surveillance: http://jya.com/wire97.htm This is not to diminish the signficance of the burgeoning national security agencies, especially the 13 members of the intelligence community and those new-born aspirants for funds to protect the commonweal -- nearly every governmental jurisdiction now aims to grab a piece of the Nat Sec booty being converted to dual- and domestic-use, usually through various "justice" and "law enforcement" programs: http://jya.com/lec-links.htm An avid drumbeater for more funding for protection against the nation's high-tech enemies (thus bringing the foreign wars home) is the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP). See a recent news report on PCCIP's call for $1 billion to fight the homefront foe: http://jya.com/pccip.htm In short, there is a growing list of self-interested domestic parties who have a stake in GAK and you can bet they are leaning on their legislators just as hard as the federal briefers who whisper secrets and lies celebrated this week for 50 years of domestic deception in the national interest. Domestic controls on crypto and other munitions are just as certain to come as the export kind, and for the same reasons -- security of the state. If there are insufficient external enemies to justify stupendous public expenditures, why, just cook up the internal kind -- as done in the 1900s, the 1920s, the 1930s, the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, and to this day. The Bible Code foretells all.