This PKP announcement is the last straw. This is clearly a case of the federal policy/procurement bureaucracy going completely out of control. The way things ran under Bush, except if they tried to pull this blatant a deal their bluff would have been called immediately. I think it's time to demand the White House put a total moratorium on all policies related to digital and telecommunications data and privacy until they can extract themselves from this quicksand. And if they won't do that, it's time to kick some *serious* political butt. Don't you let that deal go down! Fred Heutte Sunlight Data Systems "Why make it simple and easy when you can make it complex and wonderful!"