Apparently feeling that Michael Moore’s new movie wasn’t getting enough publicity, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) served its own subpoena on Moore, giving Moore yet another opportunity to talk about persecution on the late night talk show circuit.…
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Christopher Padilla testified on Friday at a hearing on export controls held by a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Most of the testimony was devoted to the current hobby-horses of Padilla’s Bureau of Industry…
We’d like to think that our post critical of the SEC’s list of public companies doing business in Syria, Sudan, Cuba, North Korea, and Iran had something to do with the SEC’s decision to remove the list from its website.…
Houston-based oil-drilling and oilfield services company Weatherford announced yesterday in its 8-K filing with the SEC that the company has been notified that the Bureau of Industry & Security and the U.S. Department of Justice are investigating allegations of improper…
An editorial in Friday’s Wall Street Journal was critical of the United Nations Development Program (“UNDP”) for several supposedly illegal exports. The criticism seems to be largely based on the questionable claim that the UNDP was required to obtain export…