re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption actually many of us have noted this we have noted that the program started at least years ago that the contracts with vlsi technology and microtoxin were let at least months ago that production of the chips is well underway and so forth nobody i know has claimed clinton intitiated the program but he chose to go ahead with it perhaps the nsa realised that no one would even contemplate falling for the dual escrow bluff while under the bush administration and had to wait for a democrat govt to con into promoting this because people might just believe they were honest didn t work did it g
