Economic sanctions continue to spread into cyberspace as Microsoft announced last Friday that customers in sanctioned countries would receive an error message if they tried to log into their Windows Live Messenger accounts and would no longer be able to…
ABOVE: Howard BermanChair, House Foreign Affairs Yesterday, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs approved legislation that would, among other things, amend parts of the Arms Export Control Act (“AECA”). The Bill, H.R. 2410, is titled the ‘‘Foreign Relations Authorization Act,…
The excellent online E.U. news source, EUobserver.com, ran an interesting column on the E.U. and arms sales to Sri Lanka. The column noted that on Monday the E.U. condemned human rights abuses by the Sri Lankan military and demanded an…
The United Kingdom’s Export Control Organization has launched a newsletter, pithily titled “Compliance Newsletter.” In its premier four-page issue, we learn that the ECO is big on warning letters, boasting that it has issued 50 of them since establishing procedures…
At 11:30 this morning, an unidentified caller rang me and said that he was responsible for the blog that I discussed yesterday that principally consisted of posts copied in their entirety from this blog. The man on the other end…