re the battle is joined in article c nn i d q news claremont edu ebrandt jarthur claremont edu eli brandt writes in article apr qualcomm com karn servo qualcomm com phil karn writes it looks like dorothy denning s wrong headed ideas have gotten to the administration even sooner than we feared i d lay long odds that it was the other way around clinton didn t just pull this plan out of any bodily orifices the nsa has to have been working on it for years while it s possible that denning and other prominent people just happened to start arguing for such a system it seems more likely that there was a suggestion involved if this guess is wrong i apologize i m sure dorothy denning is an honest person and wouldn t lie to us simply think up a question to ask her about her involvement but be very careful to phrase it in such a way that there can be no jesuitical evasion or a true but wholly misleading answer in this country mi are experts at answering these questions for instance there was a british journalist jonathon moyle killed in south america a couple of years ago parliament asked was he an mi employee no turns out afterwards he wasn t paid therefore wasn t an employee they could equally have said he wasn t an agent he went abroad on his private business with no brief from mi but was interviewed and debriefed at length only on his return g
