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"a fundamental financial meltdown."
*   
*   The agency's secrecy made Congressional oversite next to impossible,
*   intelligence officials said.
*   
*   Just two years previously, the NRO constructed a "stealth building".
*   It was a $300 million new headquarters. The agency had explained that
*   happened because they treated the construction of the building as a
*   covert operation.

A covert operation against whom?

The Pentagon was in operational charge of the NRO.

The NRO is a sister agency to the NSA.


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                   Key Recovery Means No Cryptography
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It's one way or the other.

Zero or One.

We either have uncrackable crypto, or crackable crypto, meaning no crypto.

#   "White House Challenged on Data Security"
#   By John Markoff, The New York Times, May 31, 1996
#   
#   The United States Government should IMMEDIATELY relax export controls on
#   software products containing encryption and allow industries to set their
#   own standards.
#   
#   The report was prepared by the National Research Council of the National
#   Academy of Sciences, and stands in direct opposition to the Clinton
#   Administration.
#   
#   The National Research Counc