Last week, Aviation Week repeated claims by House members Frank Wolf and Lamar Smith that employees of NASA’s Ames Research Center were being investigated for unauthorized release of ITAR-controlled technical data. Specifically, the two members claimed that the NASA employees released…
According to this investigative report that appeared in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department apparently committed criminal export violations over 10 years ago when it shipped body armor without a license to Cambodia. Surprisingly…
ABOVE: Pharmacy in Iran A report just released by the Woodrow Wilson Center faults U.S. sanctions for critical shortages in medicines in Iran. Although there is, in theory, an exemption in the sanctions which permits the licensed sale of medicines…
Well, today is truly a red letter day in the annals of ITAR registration puffery. For the first time ever (at least that I’ve seen), we have a company boasting that it has received ITAR re-certification. This blog has reported…
Last Friday, there were news reports, like this one in the BBC, that the Twitter account of Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, had been suspended by Twitter. Apparently, some of its more outrageous tweets violated the Twitter terms of service. Of…