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Re: (VTW) BillWatch #48
At 10:17 AM 6/4/96 -0400, Carl Ellison wrote:
>I was at the EPIC conference yesterday (6/3) -- where Whit Diffie, BTW,
presented the same argument Steven Cherry gave in this BillWatch -- but at
the end of the EPIC conference we had Scott Charney of DoJ on a panel about
what the OECD is doing (pushing Clipper internationally) and we kept going
round with him on the administration's pushing of Clipper (N). [One attendee
described this as "forum shopping" -- looking for a friendly place to push
Clipper.]
>
>There were people battling him over his alleged representation of the USA
at the OECD -- claiming he was misrepresenting the country by pushing
Clipper. His response was that the Executive is empowered to do all
international meetings/negotiations/....
>
>After the meeting ended it hit me what the problem is and I mentioned it to
PRZ. We're complaining that the Executive has gone rogue -- is disobeying
the will of the people. PRZ likened it to Nixon's war in Cambodia.
I have a solution to that problem.
Jim Bell
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