suspicion as well spoils Jason's enforcement

$1 billion, then $2 billion...]
*
* The new head of the agency, John Nelson, said that the secret agency had
* undergone "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


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