Freeh slimes again: Digital Telephony costs $2 billion now ...
Brock N. Meeks
brock at well.com
Fri Aug 2 12:07:07 PDT 1996
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Ernest Hua wrote:
> Louis Freeh is now asking the Congress for $2 billion to fund
> Digital Telephony. Yes, that is FOUR TIMES what he said it
> would cost the taxpayers to give up their own privacy. Score
> one for the cynics who said $500 million was not enough.
I broke the story about how much Digital Telephony would *really* cost in
CyberWire Dispatch more than two years ago. The price tag in my piece:
"... at least $2 billion..." In that Dispatch I wrote that the Clinton
White House had made the decision to support the bill based on a flawed
cost/benefit analysis study the FBI had done.
--Brock
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