re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption the dead giveaway is the repeated protestations that the new plan is aimed at criminals drug dealers terrorists etc you d think the tactic would be too obvious to trot out yet again after a decade of sarah and the rest of the brady bunch using it to destroy the second amendment but evidently the control nuts feel it will serve them one more time as far as the export needs of american companies are concerned i could almost believe that the plan to saddle the us industry with a hidden sabotaged algorithm was invented by a cabal of japanese lobbyists
