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Selected Items on Digital Telephony Act

The Digital Telephony Bill was passed in October, 1994, after intense lobbying of Congress by the FBI. It's instructive to read these, to gain insight into the political process.
  • "The Freeh Lobby." US News and World Report, 30 May 1994.
  • Meeks, Brock. “Jacking in from the ‘Cancer Among Us’ Port.” CyberWire Dispatch. 9 Aug. 1994.
  • Electronic Privacy Information Center. "Group Seeks Release of FBI Wiretap Data, Calls Proposed Surveillance Legislation Unnecessary." Press Release, 9 Aug. 1994.
  • McCandlish, Stanton. “EFF Statement on Leahy/Edwards Digital Telephony Bill.” 9 Aug. 1994.
  • McCandlish, Stanton. “EFF Summary of Leahy/Edwards Digital Telephony Bill.” 10 Aug. 1994.
  • Meeks, Brock N. “Digital Telephony is not the endpoint.” CyberWire Dispatch. 12 Aug. 1994.
  • McCandlish, Stanton. “Suddenly popular telephony bill.” 16 Aug. 1994.
  • Taber, John. “EFF was snookered.” 23 Aug. 1994.
  • Meeks, Brock. “Jacking in from the ‘Riding A Straw Horse’.” 13 Sep. 1994.
  • “Letter from EPIC to Congressman Jack Brooks.” 13 Sept. 1994.
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation. “Testimony of Jerry Berman before the House Telecommunications Subcommittee.” 13 Sep. 1994.
  • “House Telecommunications Subcommittee considers Digital Telephony proposal.” Eff Hearing Summary, 14 Sep. 1994.
  • ACLU Information. “ACLU Opposes FBI Wiretap Access Bill.” 26 Sept. 1994.
  • Epic alert. “FBI Asks 5-Year Delay on Wiretap Data.” 26 Sep. 1994.
  • “Judge rejects delay on FBI wiretap data.” Press Release, 3 Oct. 1994.
  • Chartrand, Sabra. "Clinton Gets a Wiretapping Bill That Covers New Technologies." New York Times, 8 Oct. 1994.
  • “EFF Statement on and Analysis of Digital Telephony Act.” Washington D.C., 8 Oct. 1994.
  • Chaos, David. “Digital Telephony and Encryption.” 10 Oct. 1994.
  • Sawyer, Tom, Rep. “Position paper on Digital Telephony Bill.” 7 Oct. 1994.
  • “FBI ‘proof’ one-page summary.” 13 Oct. 1994.
  • Rotenberg, Marc. “EPIC opposes national wiretap plan.” Press Release, 5 Apr. 1995. (Marc Rotenberg is the Director of EPIC.)
  • Yancey, Matt. “FBI Wants to Wiretap One of Every 100 Phones in Urban Areas.” Associated Press. 2 Nov. 1995.
  • Freeh, Louis. “F.B.I. Isn't Trying to Increase Wiretaps.” New York Times, 3 Nov. 1995. (Louis Freeh is the FBI Director.)