[87116] in Cypherpunks
RE: Why the White amendment is a good idea (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Weissman)
Thu Sep 25 19:20:19 1997
From: Aaron Weissman <aweissman@mocc.com>
To: "'Tim May'" <tcmay@got.net>,
"'fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu'"
<fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:43:27 -0600
Reply-To: Aaron Weissman <aweissman@mocc.com>
On Thursday, September 25, 1997 11:34 AM, Tim May [SMTP:tcmay@got.net]
wrote:
> The NETCenter is largely duplicative, though will be much less effective,
> than the NSA. I strongly urge Aaron and others to review the history and
> capabilities (and limitations) of the NSA.
Sure, it is duplicative. However, for this thing to become law, I envision
a rather dramatic shift in the organization of our intelligence
institutions. Or at least a change in some of the building names at Ft.
Meade :)
> (The NSA sometimes assists with law enforcement. But often it does not. I
> grant that a purely civilian codebreaking facility might once have been
> needed. But for reasons I'll get to below, it's much too late to start
now!
> And much too expensive.)
There is an exective order or presidential decision directive (pdd) from
the mid-80's that formalizes a "relationship" between the NSA and FBI for
law enforcement decryption. However, I never was able to get my hands on
it ...
Aaron
