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Re: State Dept Response to my second CJ request

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 12 07:44:39 1994

To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 May 1994 00:55:16 EDT."
             <199405120455.AAA00840@duke.bwh.harvard.edu> 
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 07:38:40 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@snark.imsi.com>


Adam Shostack says:
> Bill Sommerfeld:
> 
> | Does anyone think it would be worthwhile to go through the rigamarole
> | of CJ requests for "intermediate" cases?  Or is that just splitting
> | hairs?
> 
> 	Actually, I was batting around the idea earlier of reading the
> code onto audio tape.

Frankly, the case seems airtight right now. The government is
contending that only Americans can type. The position is so idiotic as
to be untenable. I don't think there is any need for additional
rigamarole -- Phil should appeal the current ruling and then take them
to court as is.

Perry

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