NODE 4206bc03Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000
jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:54:23 -0800 (PST)
At 06:06 PM 12/18/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
>At 8:20 PM -0500 12/18/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
>>http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/18/fbi.spy/index.html
>>FBI agent spied for Soviet Union, Russia.
>>Too bad he didn't have access to the Clipper database. That would
>>have helped us find its free market price.
>
>...and who's to say he didn't? Anyone who bought it--the Russians, for
>example--would hardly have been likely to publicize their purchase.
>
>(Maybe if _we_ purchased it, we'd publicize the purchase, but nearly anyone
>else would not.)
Or maybe he could just _claim_ to have sold the database. That'd work just
as well, I think. Think how much trouble the gov't would have to go to do
disprove him!
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
NODE 1e5cbf5fRe: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000
dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:16:30 -0800 (PST)
jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> writes:
> >>http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/18/fbi.spy/index.html
> >>FBI agent spied for Soviet Union, Russia.
>
> >>Too bad he didn't have access to the Clipper database. That would
> >>have helped us find its free market price.
> >
> >...and who's to say he didn't? Anyone who bought it--the Russians, for
> >example--would hardly have been likely to publicize their purchase.
> >
> >(Maybe if _we_ purchased it, we'd publicize the purchase, but nearly anyone
> >else would not.)
>
> Or maybe he could just _claim_ to have sold the database. That'd work just
> as well, I think. Think how much trouble the gov't would have to go to do
> disprove him!
Look at the hoops the Klinton administration jumps through to prove that
flight TWA wasn't shot down by their missile.
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