Andrew Tabler, who works for a Washington-based think tank on the Middle East wrote a column in today’s web-edition of Newsweek on the appointment by the Obama administration of a new Ambassador to Syria — the first since 2005 —…
For several years now the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has had the statutory authority to impose a civil penalty of $250,000 per export violation but has yet impose anything near that fine. So when BIS finally whacks someone…
North Carolina based law enforcement supply company Sirchie has signed, and a federal court has entered, a deferred prosecution agreement under which Sirchie agreed to pay $12.6 million in penalties with $2 million of those penalties going to the Department…
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has posted the settlement documents for the case involving Interturbine Aviation Logistics GmbH and its Texas subsidiary which was reported by this blog last week. And — now, don’t faint from shock —…
Everyone that has sensitive data (including, of course, ITAR-controlled data) on their computers networks should read this sobering article in Wired, which reveals, for the first time that I am aware of, the methodology, extent and scope of Chinese cyber-attacks…