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Re: National Security Committee amendments to SAFE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Cox)
Wed Sep 17 18:00:37 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970917161510.03264cb0@cybercash.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 17:24:39 -0400
To: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
From: Ben Cox <cox+@transarc.com>
Cc: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net
Carl Ellison says:
>>Decisions made by the Secretary of Commerce with the concurrence of the
>>Secretary of Defense with respect to exports of encryption products under
>>this section shall not be subject to judicial review.
>
>I take it this last sentence is intended to kill Bernstein, Karn and Junger
>and any other cases we might try to bring. Correct?
How could that possibly be binding? Anything the court system thinks is
subject to judicial review is subject to judicial review.
-- Ben
