Freeh slimes again: Digital Telephony costs $2 billion now ...

Louis Freeh is now asking the Congress for $2 billion to fund
Digital Telephony.  Yes, that is FOUR TIMES what he said it
would cost the taxpayers to give up their own privacy.  Score
one for the cynics who said $500 million was not enough.

Ern

On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Ernest Hua wrote:

> Louis Freeh is now asking the Congress for $2 billion to fund
> Digital Telephony.  Yes, that is FOUR TIMES what he said it
> would cost the taxpayers to give up their own privacy.  Score
> one for the cynics who said $500 million was not enough.

I broke the story about how much Digital Telephony would *really* cost in 
CyberWire Dispatch more than two years ago.  The price tag in my piece:  
"... at least $2 billion..."  In that Dispatch I wrote that the Clinton 
White House had made the decision to support the bill based on a flawed 
cost/benefit analysis study the FBI had done.

--Brock