"The United States should....avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests." - William Clinton, President of the United States, September, 1992. Less than a year later, the Clinton Admistration attempted to foist the "Clipper" backdoor-infested encryption scheme on the public, using unilateral export controls of cryptographic software as the hammer to drive the regulatory nails.
