One Way to Win An Argument . . .
. . . is to gag your opponent. And that’s exactly how the prosecution is trying to win the public domain argument in the Chi Mak trial, which we’ve discussed here and here. At least two of the three documents…
Month March 2007
Before You Name Your Kid, Check the SDN List
If your name is Daniel Garcia, don’t even think of applying for apartment, a job, a mortgage or a car loan. Because you’ll be denied. Thanks, apparently, to increased use of OFAC’s SDN list to scan routine domestic transactions from…
Prosecution Run A-Mak
Yesterday we commented on the argument by the prosecutors in the Mak trial that export of public domain technical data to an embargoed country, such as China, violates the Arms Export Control Act. Josh Gerstein, the intrepid New York Sun…
Chi Mak Export Trial Begins
The trial of Chi Mak and other members of his family for export of ITAR-controlled technical data begins this week. An article on the upcoming trial by New York Sun reporter Josh Gerstein, who has been following this case with…
Flip-Flop or Flop?
For a moment yesterday, it looked like the tide had started to turn on the embargo on Cuba. A press release from the Center for Democracy in the Americas announced that Rep. Dan Burton had agreed to support the Cuban-American…