US Updates Crypto Policy

[Michael Motyka]

>      As the Vice President stated in a letter to Senator Daschle, the
> Administration remains committed to assuring that the nation?s law
> enforcement community will be able to access, under strictly defined legal
> procedures, the plain text of criminally related communications and stored
> information.   The Administration intends to support FBI?s establishment of
> a technical support center to help build the technical capacity of law
> enforcement - Federal, State, and local - to stay abreast of advancing
> communications technology.
> 
Considering that domestic controls are not discussed they are certainly
mentioning a lot of activities that sound like they would be taking
place here in the US. They also mention a wide range of LEAs that would
welcome domestic controls. 

Is this just a continuation of the attempt to control domestic use by
export policy? 

Mike