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Re: FBI involves itself in Verio merger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Fri Jul 7 10:26:04 2000
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 23:33:26 -0700
To: Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
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At 08:07 PM 7/6/00 -0400, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
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>On 6 Jul 2000, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
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>> >from http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article/0,2171,8_409201,00.html
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>> >The FBI registered concerns with the Treasury Department about NTT's
>> >(NYSE:NTT) planned purchase of Verio (NASDAQ:VRIO) because agency is
>> >concerned that foreign ownership of Verio would inhibit its ability to
>> >maintain surveillance over its telecommunications network.
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>Not too subtle, are they?
Bingo. It ought really be the DoD whining, since they depend on
so much public transport nowadays. The FBI taking it up is
unspeakable.
