Net time, they should ask DoD if they would use the proposed scheme. Or whether the critical economical infrastructure of the US warrants less protection than DoD documents.
Many experts have told them. They have told them that 'backdoored' is contradictory to 'strong.
The impression I get - being as far away from this debate as any other non-US citizen - is this request for "strong but accessible" "encryption" is repeated by administration and echoed by media consistently. Eventually, every citizen with the limited understanding and memory that we have to spare will be asking 'why aren't our scientists giving law enforcement what they need?', instead of what does that actually mean. In a way I find myself very fortunate to be on the side of the pond where these voices still exist, but reason temporarily prevails.
People have been telling that to politicians over and over and over and over again. They refuse to hear it.
The problem with politics is that a lot of people have this idea of how the world should work, and they think this somehow overrules how the world actually works. In the fantasy world they live in backdoors can only ever be used by the good guys.