[118087] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why did White House change its mind on crypto?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Sun Sep 19 15:04:33 1999
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:43:26 -0700
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>, minow@pobox.com
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
At 09:19 PM 9/18/99 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote:
>At 11:09 AM 9/17/99 , Martin Minow wrote:
>Looking beyond the immediate "fair trials for defendants" issue,
>information hiding about law enforcement techniques is poor policy because
>it allows corruption to continue unchecked - see, for example, the
>unconstitutional wiretapping engaged in by the LAPD and the LA County DA's
>office revealed in late 1998 at
><http://www.newtimesla.com/1998/081398/feature1-1.html> and discussed
>previously on cypherpunks.
Or revalations in today's LA Times that some of the most compelling Gang
Commission testimony against 18th Street gang members was fabricated by
police and DAs. In one instance a police informant told new investigators
that a suspect was handcuffed, shot and had an assault rife planted to
justify immediate police actions and subsequent crackdowns.
--Steve
