Political Quotes

“I am gratified that S. 493, the Cellular Telephone Protection Act, which would make it easier for Federal law enforcement to stop cell phone cloning, has unanimously been approved by the Senate. I expect that the bill will soon pass the House of Representatives, and be signed into law by the President. S. 493 is the first in a series of anticrime initiatives I introduced that are aimed at modernizing U.S. law to reflect changes in technology. It is estimated that the cellular telecommunications industry lost $650 million due to fraud in 1995, much of it as a result of cloning. Cloned phones are popular among the most vicious criminal element. The feature story from the July/August edition of Time Digital, 'Lethal Weapon: How Your Cell Phone Became Gangland's Favorite Gadget' quotes James Kallstrom, head of the FBI's New York office as describing cloners as 'hard-core criminals, child pornographers and pedophiles * * * violent criminals who use technology to avoid the law.'”