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On the recordJuly 8, 1996
Mr. President, I am baffled after coming off this vacation that I can be sitting in a committee hearing with CEO's and president's of companies like Netscape, like Microsoft; like all of the companies that have come to be, within the last 10 or 15 years, powerful; and companies in the new technologies that we are using today, listening to these president's and CEO's argue for strong encryption technology that is vital to the future of businesses while at the same moment this administration is apologizing to the American people for the exposure of confidential FBI files--I just find absolutely unbelievable that this kind of snafu could be permitted by and enacted by several of the employees at the White House that have unlimited access to extremely--I say ``extremely''-- confidential information on hundreds of prominent Americans. After this incident, it gives me pause. And it might be clear that not only does this President believe in big Government, but, I add, does he also believe in Big Brother? Contrary to popular opinion, Big Brother is probably watching and listening to all of us.
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Joseph T. Burns
Ohio
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Addressing concerns about government surveillance and the exposure of confidential information.

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