US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, May 30, l994

THE FREEH LOBBY.  Thanks to intense personal lobbying by FBI 
Director Louis Freeh, there are now sufficient votes on Capitol Hill to 
assure passage of legislation that would make it far easier for law 
enforcement officials to wiretap the nation's telephone system.  The 
snoop-friendly measure, which may be introduced this week, would 
require manufacturers of telephone, computer and cable 
communications equipment to design and build their machines so 
that they could be readily accessed by wiretap and other types of 
eaves-dropping devices used my US law enforcement agencies.  The 
legislation would cover communications equipment now in use as well 
as items not yet on the drawing board.