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The New York Times, February 9, 1998, p. D10:

U.S. Losing Battle on Control of Data Encryption, Study Says

By Jeri Clausing

Washington -- The Clinton Administration is losing its battle
to increase international controls over how reliably computer
data can be scrambled to insure privacy, according to a report
to be released Monday by an independent research group. ...

The Electronic Privacy Information Center <http://www.epic.org>
says that its survey of 243 governments showed that the United
States is virtually the only democratic, industrialized nation
seeling domestic regulation of strong encryption.

That finding directly contradicts the Clinton Administration's
assertions in Congressional hearings that it has the support of
most nations on this issue. ...

William Reinsch, the Under Secretary for export administration
in the United States Commerce Department, denied that the study
contradicted the Administration's assertions. "All the 
Administration has ever said is that there are more countries 
that go farther  than we do," Mr. Reinsch said. "The study 
confirms that."

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    statistics dont lie, but liars use statistics.

    back to the same old square one --getting the couch tomatoes
    (they've gone soft) riled enough to understand the lies. fat
    chance, as long as they can be fat, dumb, and happy the sloths
    will still vote their wallets.

>The New York Times, February 9, 1998, p. D10:
>U.S. Losing Battle on Control of Data Encryption, Study Says
  [...]
>That finding directly contradicts the Clinton Administration's assertions
>in Congressional hearings that it has the support of most nations on this
>issue. ...

>William Reinsch, the Under Secretary for export administration in the
>United States Commerce Department, denied that the study contradicted the
>Administration's assertions. "All the Administration has ever said is that 
>there are more countries that go farther  than we do," Mr. Reinsch said. 
>"The study  confirms that."
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