Anti-Crypto CongressCritters - FWD: And you thought it was Larry Flynt . . .
Stewart, William C (Bill), BNSVC
billstewart at att.com
Mon Dec 28 19:50:58 PST 1998
Sigh. Plus ca change
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Farber [mailto:farber at cis.upenn.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 28, 1998 1:20 PM
To: ip-sub-1 at majordomo.pobox.com
Subject: IP: And you thought it was Larry Flynt . . .
From: sbaker at steptoe.com
Dave,
I am sending you part of a note we sent to our clients a week or two ago. I
haven't seen it in the press yet, but after it shows up in IP, the NY Times
will be more or less irrelevant.
Stewart
From: Stewart Baker (sbaker at steptoe.com)
Elizabeth Banker (ebanker at steptoe.com)
The press would have you believe that it was Larry Flynt and his
million-dollar
tales of infidelity that caused the unexpected change in House leadership
this
month, but encryption policy buffs -- paranoid by nature and proud of it --
are beginning to focus on another suspect, one with more to gain.
That's because it is the Federal Bureau of Investigation that looks like the
biggest winner now that Robert Livingston has been replaced by Dennis
Hastert as
odds-on favorite to be Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Livingston supported the industry's version of SAFE, the crypto decontrol
bill
that died in Congress last session. In contrast, J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL)
has
shown strong solidarity with the FBI on encryption issues as a member of the
House Commerce Committee. Indeed, Hastert supported the Oxley-Manton
Amendment
that would have turned the SAFE Act of 1997 (H. R. 695) into a mandate for
domestic regulation of encryption. And when Oxley-Manton was rejected by
the
Committee in favor of the Markey-White Amendment, Hastert voted against the
SAFE Act.
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