Not a rumor -- it's true. Crowell was wandering around wondering what was going on. The excuse was that ~60 votes were scheduled on the Senate floor yesterday. -Declan At 14:26 -0700 6/26/97, Alan Olsen wrote:

No Freeh lunch?

http://www.news.com/Rumors/0,29,,00.html

At the end of the article...

While hackers were getting busy, the crypto honchos were getting dissed in D.C. Apparently, a group of bigwigs, including Louis Freeh of the FBI, William Crowell of NSA, Peter Neumann of SRI, and Ray Ozzie of Lotus, flew all the way out to the nation's capital for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on cryptography, only to be informed 20 minutes before the meeting that it had been canceled. Grumbling ensued as the various participants stormed back to Dulles airport. The meeting may pick up after the July 4 recess.