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Politics : Clinton -- doomed & wagging, Japan collapses, Y2K bug, etc
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (615)10/9/1998 9:23:00 AM
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Alan Davidson, Staff Counsel Center for Democracy and Technology

This evening the Senate passed the Intelligence Authorization Conference Report (they had almost no choice) and now the roving
wiretaps provisions will almost certainly become law.

Perhaps even more disturbing than this expansion of federal surveillance authority is the way that it happened. Even though neither
the House nor Senate version of the authorization bill contained roving wiretaps, and even though a similar provision was rejected by
the full House in open debate just last Congress, this FBI-wish list item was snuck onto the must-pass conference report behind
closed doors. Those Members of Congress who even knew it was there were faced with no choice but to approve it or reject the
authorization bill and shut down the entire intelligence establishment (as attractive as that latter option might sound at times(!), you
can understand why most of Congress did not vote that way...)

As I said in one wire story today: To take a controversial provision that affects the fundamental constitutional liberties of the people
and pass it behind closed doors shows a shocking disregard for our democratic process.

Unfortunately, this is an instructional lesson about how the FBI goes about pursuing its agenda. And crypto controls are at the top
of that agenda.
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