On the recordApril 26, 2001
I have not thought it through. I think after it was decontrolled in 1994, over the objections of the National Security Agency, the cat was out of the bag. I am not sure it would have made any difference. I think the point is that what we are dealing with today would further decontrol a host of additional items that heretofore you had to have a license to get. Some of those--I would venture to say the large majority of those things--would be harmless. But my concern is whether or not we have a procedure to catch the ones that are not harmless. That is what we are trying to deal with here. I hope we can move in that direction.
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