A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve itinerary had broken down and were not expected to…
Dandle, to most of you, is a verb meaning to dance a small child up and down on one’s knee. Others, particularly regular readers of this blog, will recognize it as the surpassingly odd name of an Islamic Republic of…
ABOVE: NASA Computers Seizedby OIG A report released earlier this month by the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) criticized NASA’s efforts to control sensitive data when disposing of computers and other components of its IT systems. Significantly, the OIG found…
Marc Knapp, a 36 year old California man, was arrested on charges that, among other things, he attempted to export a military surplus F-5 fighter jet and other export-controlled defense articles. to Iran. The recently unsealed criminal complaint alleges a…
WikiLeaks has gotten the State Department so flustered that it is leaking its own documents. Today DDTC posted a working document discussing proposed changes to Category XII of the United States Munitions List (“USML”). The document had emblazoned on each…