"The FBI wanted us to introduce the [1994 Digital Telephony] bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they have a Vermonter as the Chairman Of the [Technology and Law] committee and that we Vermonters respect our privacy." - Sen. Patrick Leahy, from James Bandler, "Eavesdropping Measure is Troubling to Leahy", _Rutland_Herald_, Mar. 27, 1994. Throughout 1994, Sen. Leahy worked with EFF to strip the FBI's privacy-threatening "features" from the Digital Telephony bill and replace them with new privacy protections.
