(fwd) FBI Digital Telephony Wiretapping a Done Deal??

From alt.politics.crypto, several forwards deleted:

>US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, May 30, l994

>THE FREEH LOBBY.  Thanks to intense personal lobbying by FBI 
>Director Louis Freeh, there are now sufficient votes on Capitol Hill to 
>assure passage of legislation that would make it far easier for law 
>enforcement officials to wiretap the nation's telephone system.  The 
>snoop-friendly measure, which may be introduced this week, would 
>require manufacturers of telephone, computer and cable 
>communications equipment to design and build their machines so 
>that they could be readily accessed by wiretap and other types of 
>eaves-dropping devices used my US law enforcement agencies.  The 
>legislation would cover communications equipment now in use as well 
>as items not yet on the drawing board.

> From: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
> Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 03:42:37 -0700
>
> >US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, May 30, l994
>
> >[...blah blah blah...]

A little early with this report aren't you?  I though today, 26 May
1994, was before May 30 1994.  What is you source?  Could you get me a
copy of the financial pages too?

j'