[118669] in Cypherpunks
Re: Hypothetical Scenario #1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Tue Oct 5 10:40:23 1999
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 10:18:22 -0400
To: unwelcome_guest@catholic.org, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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At 23:32 10/4/1999 +0000, unwelcome_guest@catholic.org wrote:
>Would the media care to investigate the govt. claims, or would they
>simply pounce on us?
The media is of course always fair and unbiased. We would take pains --
days or weeks if necessary -- to investigate allegations made by government
officials before lending any credence to them in a news report.
-Declan