In the aftermath of the computer decontrol fiasco, Mr. Kloske (who was then awaiting Senate confirmation for his present position as Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration) promised to develop an interagency mechanism for eliciting and incorporating the views of technical and intelligence experts throughout the U.S. government with a view to avoiding the sort of problems that arose in the earlier case.
It remains so today and the Bush Administration should not attempt to disguise its inability to meet the requisite qualitative standards by circumventing this mechanism.